Osun APC To PDP: You owe labour unconditional apology over misinformation on half salaries paid by Adeleke
Sequel to the falsehood and gibberish being fed the public by the confused leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State on the correct status of the inherited accumulated half salaries so far paid by the Governor Ademola Adeleke administration, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has tasked the ruling party to publicly apologize to the government workers for misinforming the members of the public.
It would be recalled that the PDP had dubiously and mischievously stated in a statement signed by its state caretaker committee chairman, Dr Akindele Adekunle, yesterday that Governor Adeleke has paid all the inherited 30 months’ half salaries within the time he came into the saddle about four months ago.
It is not farfetched to observe and conclude that Dr Akindele dubiously made the fallacious statement in order to dupe and insult the collective intelligence of Osun workers and the general public.
A fact check on the disclosure of the half salaries paid so far by the Adeleke administration shows that only two out of the 30 months’ half salaries have been paid by the ruling PDP administration.
In the sixth paragraph of the PDP’s statement dated 06/04/2023, the state PDP caretaker chairman had stated that: “Since coming on board, Governor Adeleke has shown serious commitment to the welfare of workers in Osun State and even pensioners. This is evident in the payment of the 30 months’ half salaries and pension owed by the APC administration”.
In his response, the Acting State Chairman of the Osun State chapter 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 Osun State capital today, faulted the use of falsehood by the PDP chairman to drive the operations of the party and public conversations in the state.
In Lawal’s words: “While we are not unappreciative of the two months’ half salaries offset by Adeleke, it is pertinent to inform the confused and expired Osun State PDP caretaker chairman that his falsity in this regard is capable of being a recipe for avoidable unrest in the state when he fraudulently stated that the Adeleke administration had paid 30 months’half salaries whereas the reverse is the case.
“It is not unlikely that whoever talks too much will, one day, talks himself into a monumental trouble that may rubbish him in the similar situation that Dr Akindele and his co-travellers are now finding themselves.
“Is Dr Akindele not aware that the gibberish that he put into the public domain is capable of instigating the creditors of some of the government workers who might be thinking that they had truly collected the whole of the 30 months’ half salaries?
“Was it right for the PDP caretaker chairman who hails from Ondo State not to read through whatever is written for him by his media aide who also hails from Ilora in Oyo State before he appends his signature?
“We can see the level of the damage done by an imported caretaker party chairman and his media aide who are bereft of the residual knowledge of the state whose preoccupation is to daily flood the media space with jabberwockies without any regard for its correctness.
“The fact of the issue is that it is not correct that Adeleke had paid the Osun State workers the 30 months’ half salaries but only two and this should form the basis that the garrulous PDP caretaker chairman and Governor Adeleke must tender an unconditional apology to the Osun State workers.
“Let it be on record that as a government, we also paid arrears of half salaries. The only difference is that we never played politics with it as we concentrated on contributory pensioners at the state and local government levels,” Lawal added.
