The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Osun state chapter has accused the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, of fixing the N34.988bn bailout received from the Central Bank of Nigeria for two months with a commercial bank.

Its spokesman, Diran Odeyemi, in a statement in Osogbo on Monday said Osun received the fund about two weeks ago but that the governor decided to lodge it in a fixed deposit in order to attract interest.

The statement partly read, “Only paper work was completed last week. But since the arrival of the money exactly 14 days ago, Mr. Aregbesola in his usual ‘I don’t care nature’ instead of commencing payments of workers dues, lodged the N35bn given to the state.


“According to our findings, the bank that agreed to give Mr. Aregbesola the biggest interest running into several millions of naira was given the money to fix.

“The governor is buying time, for over two weeks now, he had been hiding behind staff screening to fish out ghost workers and the exercise is designed to last for another eight weeks.”

The PDP said the party was concerned by the suffering the workers and pensioners were going through due to the delay in payment of their salaries and pensions.

But reacting, Semiu Okanlawon, the governor’s media aide said the PDP fabricated the date, insisting that the fund was received even when the CBN said the money was released last week.


He said, “The verification exercise which the party claims is the subterfuge for this alleged lodgement in a fixed deposit account for personal gains is being handled with active involvement of civil servants.

“Does the PDP expect the workers themselves to delay the verification for its imagined interests on the funds to materialise?

“Its claim that bailout was paid two weeks ago further confirms its dubious intention because even the Central Bank of Nigeria still confirmed the list of states that first received their shares while the same CBN said other states would get theirs on or before the end of last week.

“The PDP would do well to tell the world where it got its own information on the date of the bailout release to Osun as well as provide evidence of the alleged lodgement.”

AwesomelyMade:
Aregbe is a business man whether osun people are hungry or not.

Obiagelli:
This guy is just plain evil, so all these while he was doing owing salary, he didn't do verification. How can one be so devilish to think of himself only.

Pay this people for God's sake, it is not your money.

lurther:
I blame his people. I blame Osun people. I don't blame Aregbesola at all. Infact, Aregbesola, go ahead, dont pay a dime to them, embezzle their money and the profit together.

Next time, Osun people will not vote with sentiments. Knowing fully well that. Aregesola is a thief going by his antecedents and they still voted him because of Tinubu Amala and Rice. Next time, if Osun people see amala during campaign, they will run.

Sentimental people.

shaddoww:
The verification became necessary wen there was disagreement btw d government n d NLC over d total number of civil servants in d state, d government claims it spends close to 3.6billion on salaries n pensions, so it was jointly agreed dat d government should do a verification exercise which is even been conducted by d civil service commission, d situation in Osun is not as worse as been portrayed in d media n from d list of states collecting bailout u can see dat it's not peculiar to Osun alone, just recently OYO was even saying it needs more money despite d bailout.

Obiagelli:

Why didn't they do this verification all these while? Does the government not have a register for people on it's payroll, these shows the lack of capacity by the governor, this is a second term governor for God's sake.

Oyo state another example of incompetent governments.

Obiagelli:
This guy is just plain evil, so all these while he was owing salary, he didn't do verification. How can one be so devilish to think of himself only.

Pay this people for God's sake, it is not your money.

omooba969:


AM FROM OSUN STATE & AREGBESOLA IS MY GOVERNOR!!!...happy nw? ...mad thief

rad1cal2:




Bwahahahahahahahahaha !!! May hunger not destroy your entire lineage. Amen

My offer of two cups of rice, 1 pepper, 1 pinch of maggi, 1 pinch of salt and a slice of onion to serve as meat for your sorry family.


Don't be too shy.

femmy2010:


My guess is peeps would have complained more if he had started the ghost worker fishing out process when the money to pay staffs weren't on ground.

shaddoww:
U know dis is Nigeria, if he had wanted to do it earlier in his first term, d civil servants would av termed it witch-hunt or an attempt to sack dem, bt d circumstances of now just gave dem d perfect time to do such, remember Fayemi in Ekiti lost d support of teachers cos he wanted to do a competency test for dem, which was d right thing, so we need to understand d complexity of things in our society, but if d bailout is with him, he should pay-up immediately since he will even b having a good balance to b used for projects. Although I heard from one of their house of reps member dat he will pay before Salah

Obiagelli:

I still think a serious government will discard mentality and streamline his payload. I read SMALL osun has on of the largest civil service in the country an this was done by aregbesola himself with the numerous Oyes

Obiagelli:
This guy is just plain evil, so all these while he was owing salary, he didn't do verification. How can one be so devilish to think of himself only.

Pay this people for God's sake, it is not your money.