By Oludamisi Ojo.
In the build-up to the House of Assembly elections in Osun State on Saturday, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted the state civil servants in particular and residents in the state to be wary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Ademola Adeleke antics for showcasing invisible achievements since the present administration kicked off in November 27, 2022.
The acting Osun State chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, the state capital on Monday urged the state workers not to vote the PDP candidates in the Saturday’s elections.
The party alleged that Governor Adeleke has proved to be deficient in the qualities required to successfully govern a complex state like Osun.
Lawal said all the running up and down of Adeleke to satisfy the yearnings of the civil servants are not genuine but borne out of hypocritical consideration that could be likened to a mere political infantuation aimed to swindle the innocent state workers on the long run.
The APC chairman who hinted that it would be pointless to remind the civil servants on how their kinsmen were allegedly slaughtered across the state especially in Ijesaland by the PDP thugs in order to forcefully win elections for the PDP candidates in the past elections in the state.
Lawal stated how it would sound and appear to the civil servants and other inhabitants of the state if a legally affirmed certificate forger by the Osun State Governorship Election Petition is allowed to continue to be their state governor despite the sophistication of the people of the state in the education industry?
The APC Chieftain enjoined the state workers and the entire people of the state in the Saturday’s elections to vote for the party candidates
He reminded them that former Governor Gboyega Oyetola promised them the payment of full salaries, pensions and gratuities as and when due which was the pledge he kept till his last day in the office during his first term.
Lawal urged the civil servants to reject all the candidates of the PDP at the polls as it was the Adeleke administration which sacked the 1,500 teachers out of the 2,500 teachers recruited by the Oyetola government among which a few number of them have died of frustration.
Besides,he recalled that the 10,000 O’YES cadets who were sacked by Adeleke about three weeks ago would not, together with their friends, relations and well-wishers, see any need for the voting of the PDP candidates in the Saturday’s elections in Osun State.
The acting State APC chairman reminded the PDP that the sacked 500 health workers by Adeleke, their relations and friends would be waiting for the PDP House of Assembly candidates during the elections.
He also made an allusion to the families of the slaughtered 30 members of the APC across the state particularly in Ijesaland who would not see any need to vote for the PDP candidates in the elections.
Lawal recalled that the families and subjects of the three monarchs in the state who Adeleke humiliated by his frivolous executive orders would see the elections as the appropriate opportunity to take a pound of the flesh from the puerile and vindictive PDP-led administration in the state.
According to the acting State APC chairman, “another crucial set of the electorates that won’t forget easily their maltreatment from the oppressive administration of Governor Adeleke are the removed local government council chairmen, counsellors and other local government political functionaries, families, friends and associates and the families of the permanent secretaries whose promotions and appointments were unjustifiably reversed by Adeleke.
“The market women leaders (the Iyalojas) and their numerous members across the state who were maliciously and forcefully seized official vehicles from and the disbanded O’Meal operators that Adeleke threw into the labour market would not see any reason in ensuring the success of the PDP candidates at the polls on Saturday”, Lawal said.
He also hinted that the members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) who were sacked by the Adeleke administration and have been constantly terrorized, attacked, harrassed and killed by the PDP thugs would not see any need in voting for the PDP candidates during the Saturday elections.
Lawal also disclosed that the absolute refusal of Adeleke to pay the last year’s November salaries of all the political functionaries who worked under former Governor Oyetola despite the fact that Oyetola had appropriated the fund for the salaries and the governor’s refusal to extend the payment of his invidious and jaundiced half salaries of two months to the political appointees will spell doom for the PDP candidates during the Saturday house of assembly elections.
The chairman also observed that the Ijesa people are visibly angry with the Adeleke administration for malignantly, maliciously and spitefully suspending the activities on the Ilesa University (IU) project despite the fact that the Ijesa communities had raised over N2 billion for its take-off.
Lawal also alleged that the heating up of the polity in the state through the constant maiming, attacking and killing of the members and perceived members of the opposition by the PDP goons since the inauguration of the Adeleke administration has culminated in creating ceaseless tension in the state.
