By Mallam Olawale Rasheed, Spokesperson to Governor Adeleke
Dear Reno Omokri,
I read your post on Aree Dele Momodu and his writings on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State. Your piece is however laced with inaccuracies especially with respect to the state of staff salary and pension in Osun state.
Extracts from your post that verges on fake news read as follows: “However, in Osun State, we read reports of half salaries, workers being owed, and other incidents of hardship on the state workers. This is despite the fact that federal allocation to Osun State has increased by at least 45% under the current administration”
Above is a lie from the pit of hell
A little research would have assisted you to know the true state of pensions and half salaries that were inherited by Governor Adeleke. For your information, the Government of Governor Adeleke inherited about Fifty Six Billion Naira (N56 Billion) in pension debt and almost Thirty Billion naira (N30 Billion) in half salary debt from the previous APC state government.
From November 2022 till today, Governor Adeleke embarked on systematic payment of the inherited half salary debt with six months already paid.
For the pension debt, Governor Adeleke has paid about Twelve Billion and Five Hundred Million Naira (N12.5 billion) in the last one and half year compared to Eleven Billion Naira plus (N11.7 Billion) paid under the 12 years of APC government in Osun State.
Aside from gradual payment of the inherited pension and half salary debt, Governor Adeleke has ensured regular and consistent payment of monthly salary and allowances of the state workers since he assumed office.
The Governor’s records on workers’ welfare so excited the public service unions that they gave him an award for the most Humane Governor in Osun history in December 2023. You may want to know that the first item on Governor Adeleke’s Five Point Agenda is Workers’ Welfare.
Where you got your concoction of workers being owed salaries under Governor Adeleke is therefore puzzling. As much as I don’t want to accuse you of peddling fake news, I believe you failed to properly plan your response to Aree Momodu, hence your allusion to a non-existing wage crisis in Osun state. You owe the public and even your followers the responsibility to post truths, not baseless accusations against a performing Governor.
And if I may comment on why many media friends write so much about Osun, it is simply because they see with fact checks the rapid progress Osun is making under Governor Adeleke. The administration enjoys so much support from the media not because of the heavy purse but rather due to professional media coverage which clearly reflects the tireless efforts of the dancing performing Governor to take Osun to new heights.
Peoplesmind
