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PDP CONDEMNS AREGBESOLA FOR SPENDING STATE FUNDS TO ORGANISE “BEST KOLANUT SELLER” AWARD FOR HIS MOTHER IN AN ELABORATE EVENT.
Osun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, for using the state money to fund a long list of self serving programmes including organizing an award for his biological mother as “the best KOLANUT seller” in the state.
Prince Diran Odeyemi, PDP’s Director of Media and & Strategy, said in a statement issued in Osogbo on Wednesday “Imagine Aregbesola organizing an award for his biological mother using money meant to pay workers in a state where workers have not been paid salaries for five months despite the billions received as bailout from the Federal government”?
The party described the award as “the height of insensitivity, indolence and profligacy of Aregbesola even as workers and pensioners continue to reel under the pangs of hunger due to the governor’s refusal to pay them from the bailout money he received several months ago.”
The “Best Kolanut Seller” award ceremony was organised by the state government in collaboration with a Lagos based event planner on Tuesday and the prize went to the governor’s biological mother who is called “Iya Olobi” in the governor’s hometown, Ilesa. The award event took take place at the premises of the Center for Black Culture and International Understanding, in Osogbo on Tuesday.
“This is yet another evidence that MrAregbesola is wicked, insensitive, indolent and has lost focus completely on how to govern Osun state which was the reason why the PDP recommended him for some courses in Management studies at the Osun state University, one of the everlasting legacies of the PDP in the state.”
While listing Aregbesola’s other channels of waste in the past, Prince Odeyemi said “Let us not forget how this same governor wasted N8billion acquiring his failed, phantom “Opon Imo” and a further N400million in launching the failed project. Let us remember his multi- million naira Oodua Children’s Day, the O’ Calisthenics, the firework display, the N.5billion Olajokun Park at Gbongan junction, the annual N100million Isese festival, the monthly multi- million naira “walk to live” jamboree, and all other wasteful ventures that later plunged the state into the current financial mess.”
“All the listed programmes have no beneficial or direct impact on the lives of the people of Osun state but have all combined to wreck the economy of the state and its inhabitants with the state occupying the 24th position in WAEC results, and with snakes taking over Aregbesola’s so-called Olajokun park on which he spent about N500million, just to mention a few.”
” We noticed like all other citizens of Osun state that Aregbesola, who pretended to be sober when he was begging for bailout from the Federal Government, has gone back to his old, reckless ways- one of which is this unconscionable way he has used money meant to pay poor, hungry workers and pensioners to organise an award for his biological mother”
“We noticed this relapse in attitude and character of our Governor since the arrival of the N35Billion bailout money from the Federal Government. His Lagos friends are back in Osun state and the wastages have resumed again in even more frightening dimensions.”
“We pray he will not blame the PDP again after lavishing the money in celebrating his family and friends who also cruise in helicopter and chartered flights at the expense of the state,” the PDP said.
