‘EITHER YOU’RE WICKED OR THE STATE IS BROKE.’ – APC SLAMS ADELEKE OVER UNPAID SALARIES

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has chastised Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke for failing to pay March salaries to civil personnel and retirees despite enhanced income allocation from the federal government.

This comes after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun revealed that Governor Adeleke’s performance in his first year and a half in office has affected the APC.
However, in a statement made on Tuesday, the Osun APC chairman, Kola Olabisi, chastised the governor for celebrating in Lagos State rather than focused on delivering government to the people of Osun State.

Olabisi questioned why workers and pensioners have yet to receive proper salaries, claiming that such behavior reflects Adeleke’s depravity or indicates that the state is bankrupt.

The statement read, “It is unfortunate that the handlers of the governor have decided not to guide him right. The Governor Adeleke dancing and twerking session at the Sheraton Hotel is an executive show of shame which has diminished the rating of Osun State in the court of the public worldwide.

“I keep wondering why Governor Adeleke who could not justify the receipt of the over N200 billion (net) in Federal allocation within the 15 months of his administration, coupled with N14 billion cash in bank he inherited from the former Governor Gboyega Oyetola, is always comfortable attending night clubs, disco parties and social events in Lagos and Abuja.

“Could there be a justifiable reason under the sun for a governor who could not properly account for N39.5 billion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2023; series of the Federal Government palliative supports meant for the poor amounting to over N13 billion and other revenues from some donor agencies, to take to dancing and frolicking in the public?

“Why have the state workers and pensioners not received their inadequate palliative wage for the month of March? It is either the governor is wicked or the state is broke. Even if the payment is effected today, 9th day of April, it can’t atone for the suffering the governor has made the innocent workers and senior citizens to go through”