Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has cautioned Governor Rauf Aregbesola and the All Progressives Congress (APC), to desist from blaming the Federal Government for the economic woes plaguing the state.
PDP also advised the people of Osun to hold Aregbesola responsible for his inability to effectively manage the state resources.
In a statement issued yesterday by PDP chairman in Osun, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwa, the party accused Aregbesola of plunging the state into a deep financial mess through several loans obtained from financial institutions.
The PDP statement recalled that the allocation released to Osun State government for the month of October and published in November by some Nigerian newspapers, indicated that a sum of N3.4 billion was released to Osun State, while consensual deductions of N945 million which the Federal Government guaranteed for a loan obtained by Aregbesola, was deducted.
PDP noted that “it amounts to sheer propaganda, blackmail and bare falsehood on the part of the APC-led government that the Federal Government was starving the state of funds”, saying it was Aregbesola’s stock-in-trade to blame President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for his incompetence.
Reacting, APC state director of publicity, Mr Kunle Oyatomi, argued that Osun State in particular, was being subjected to financial strangulation because “the state stood up to the Federal Government’s tyranny and voted against the PDP in the last August 9 governorship election.
“No matter the economic terrorism of the Federal Government and the PDP, the people of Osun shall remain unbowed to the evil economic might of the PDP-led Federal Government, which they are currently using to strangulate workers in Osun State”.
He said last federal allocation paid to Osun was the least in the whole of the federation and was less than a third of what the state used to receive in the first half of 2014.
“Between June and October, this year, the federal allocation paid to Osun fell from over N3.8 billion to less than N1.3 billion. But the state’s salary profile alone stands at N3.6 billion every month”, Oyatomi lamented.
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