PDP condemns N700m budget for Aregbesola’s inauguration

Osun state part of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, queried what it called “bogus budget” for the inauguration of Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola for a second term.

Governor Aregbesola is due to be inaugurated for another term on Thursday, November 27, but the opposition party in a statement issued in Osogbo by Prince Diran Odeyemi, the party’s spokesperson, said the budget of N700 million for the swearing-in ceremony “amid hunger by workers, who have not been paid salary in the last three months tells much about the kind of leaders holding the reigns in Osun at the moment.”

The party reminded the governor on what he said in November, 2012, while addressing some bankers that “I can pay workers salary every 25th day of the month without monthly allocation from the federation account and I will not owe them a penny” but regretted that just two years after, the governor has found it hard paying workers, even when statutory allocations due to the state are still being given to him.

In another development, the Chairman, Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Ganiyu Olaoluwa has condemned the All Progressives Congress APC led government in the state for what it described as its halfhearted attitude towards the plight of teachers in the state.