The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has urged Governor Ademola Adeleke to pay public workers whose salaries were appropriated by his predecessor, Adegboyega Oyetola, before Adeleke took office on November 27, 2022. The demand was outlined in a statement by APC acting state chairman Tajudeen Lawal, obtained in Osogbo on Monday.
Lawal’s statement responded to Adeleke’s Easter message, in which the governor assured government workers that he was ready to “cash back” promotions made by former governor Gboyega Oyetola. Lawal noted that Adeleke failed to implement those promotions in the March payroll and pointed out that the governor had only paid two of the 30 months’ inherited half‑salaries for senior state staff, representing 25 percent of the government workforce.
The APC leader also claimed that since taking office, Adeleke and the Peoples Democratic Party have used maximum force to win presidential, National Assembly, and House of Assembly elections across the state. He reminded that Oyetola’s administration had also paid arrears of half salaries, emphasizing that “we never played dirty politics with it, as we concentrated on contributory pensioners at the state and local government levels.”
Lawal described it as “strange” that Adeleke, who has yet to finish paying the November 2022 salaries, is “beating about the bush” to gain cheap popularity. He urged Adeleke to demonstrate that he is not vindictive, wicked, or inhuman by promptly paying the public workers whose salaries were appropriated before he assumed office.
Furthermore, Lawal demanded that Adeleke disclose what happened to the November 2022 salaries of public workers who served until the 27th of that month, and he called on the governor to reveal when he will unfreeze the state public bank accounts that were closed by one of his “obnoxious and unpopular” executive orders at the start of his administration.
Efforts to obtain a response from the state government were unsuccessful; the governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, had not commented on the allegations at the time of this report.
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