The Peoples Democratic Party has advised Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, to suspend his plans to create additional 39 local council development areas.

The Director of Media and Strategy of the PDP in Osun State, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, gave this advice in a statement in Osogbo on Sunday.

According to the opposition party, the situation on the ground now does not call for creation of new councils when the existing ones are suffering from underfunding and could not make positive impact on the lives of the people at the grassroots.

The statement partly read, “The reality in Osun calls for serious planning because the economy of the state now or even in near future cannot cope with 69 local government councils when the state could not generate fund to develop the existing 30 councils.

“This is a poorly conceived idea lacking the understanding and needs of the people of Osun State while its proposed execution at this time shows that Governor Aregbesola has lost ideas of what is next in the state.

“The rest of the country must be astonished about a governor that has not been able to fulfill its financial obligations to the workforce and plunge the state economy into a crisis, but interestingly planning to create new councils to make Osun as the only state in Nigeria to have 69 councils.”

The last House of Assembly which had all its members from the ruling party had some days before the expiration of its tenure passed a bill establishing 39 additional local development areas . This followed the outcome of a referendum conducted by the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission.

This was preceded by the bill sent to the House by the governor to seek the lawmakers’ approval for the creation of the new council areas.

The PDP stated that rather than taking into consideration the peculiar needs of Osun State and its financial capacity, the governor was busy copying Lagos State’s programmes even when they were not needed in the state.

“Copying Lagos notes is affecting Osun negatively. Buying helicopter, creating LCDAs, planting flowers are all Lagos ideas. Aregbesola is running Osun as a sole administrator. In his first term, it took him almost one year before he could constitute his cabinet.

“Again 10 months into his second term, the cabinet has not been formed and may not be formed at all for obvious reasons. Even, when his commissioners were in office, the whole state knows he does not listen to their suggestions. He governs the state as a sole administrator,” the opposition party added.

Effort to get the reaction of the governor to the PDP’s advice was unsuccessful as inquiry sent to his media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, was still being expected as of the time of filing this report.

But the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salaam, had while passing the bill said that the new councils were created for administrative conveniences.

The speaker, who urged the governor to prioritise giving his assent to the bill for the creation of the councils, said their creation “became imperative in order to bring government closer to the grassroots.

“The primary purpose of the creation of the councils and administrative units was for the administrative conveniences, not to hyper-bloat the already existing over-bloated civil and political regimes which have become an albatross to the limited resources of the state.

Source:http://www.punchng.com/news/pdp-to-aregbesola-stop-creation-of-39-new-councils/

“This is a poorly conceived idea lacking the understanding and needs of the people of Osun State while its proposed execution at this time shows that Governor Aregbesola has lost ideas of what is next in the state.

We must be Frank with ourselves, they have a good point.

you owe one credit and you still dey call 'Akara" seller make she come, which money you wan use pay ?

Man wit no purpose

This man is truly mad

Additional hunger!!

I hereby declare d state of osun a failed state
www.nairaland.com/2395413/state-osun-needs-prayers



Its time any aspiring governor shld be schooled on basic economics, d government shld make it compulsory.

Stupidity of the highest order.. incongruous for Democracy. This is reprehensible deplorable and appaling. I must say "Things fall apart"

In order.Nah circumstance bend cray fish.Osun oni daru. .Sai baba onirungbon kekere,biko pay them workers salary and shut the mouth of saTANist foreva

hm hm wats even wrong with him? instead of thinking of how to raise d standard of living of his people and taking d state forward, he is planning to do this shiit, "some people mehnnn!!!!!!!

“The reality in Osun calls for serious planning because the economy of the state now or even in near future cannot cope with 69 local government councils when the state could not generate fund to develop the existing 30 councils.

Lagos state has 20 councils, Rivers state 23, Ekiti 16, but Osun is having 30-. Is this country insane?

@Topic: I don't think Gov Aregbesola is mentally okay...

): Aregbe just wont stop making fun of himself

If he can manage them, then no problem for him but if he cannot, he should just abort the plan to create more local govts.

That governor needs some lessons in basic economics.

Issorite

If his government can do it,y will hestop?

Pdp don dey get small sense,
I hope d bigots on here are growing up too

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Aregbe-Rascal!!!
I don't think saving cost is in this Negros agenda. People close to him should please beg him to CHANGE the white powder he's sniffing

[size=13pt]Aregbese is mad man, creating more local governments when he hasn't paid salary of workers of already existing local governments,
this is just another strategy to siphon n divert money for himself,his family, his associates n his god fathers at the detriment of Osun People
yet some Indomie brain people here on Nairaland will come n defend him [/size]

Aregbesola is really a case study...the man has been going up and down like Almajiri begging for fund to pay salary. Now he wants to create what he has been unable to carter for.
Fedral govt is shrinking ministries and he de enlarge the state council

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Okay

clueless and visionless governor

And this Ladies and Gentlemen has been our bane in Osun state. This man came with no idea of our government is run and ran the state economy to the ground.

Unusual governor indeed.

lt makes no sense as it is only going to bloat up workforce and political appointees! lt is just like a man who cannot feed his wife and 5 children but believing if he marries another wife and have more children, fortune may come his way! Such a man is in dire need of mental evaluation!

Seriously The dude have truly lost it.

No wonder some people termed him a rascal.

see dis man ooooo