Come Out Clean On Allegation To Circumvent Supreme Court Judgment On Local Government Autonomy - Osun APC Slams Adeleke's Administration.

  .. Says, 'It Is Criminal To Demand Post-written Resignation Letters From LG Chairmanship Candidates'

If the news making the rounds across Osun State is anything to go by, that the state government is trying all possible means to circumvent the recent judgement of the Supreme Court that granted a full autonomy to all the local government council areas in Nigeria, then, the state government needs to urgently come out clean with regards to the grievous allegation.

It was reliably gathered that all the local government chairmanship candidates under the auspices of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State are now in a quandary to a strange directive from the state Office of the Chief of Staff to come forward and sign a prepared undated resignation letter each which can be used to ease them out  of office at will if they act contrary to being perpetually subservient to the state government with reference to the councils' monthly allocations from the Federal purse on assumption of office. 

Information has it that the PDP local government council chairmanship candidates in the state were cajoled by the office of the Chief of Staff and the state PDP chairman in this opprobrious assignment that the state government would require the support of the council chairmanship candidates by having unfettered access to their monthly allocations in order to get going its  various stagnated white elephant multi-billion naira infra-projects in some towns in the state.

It was also learnt that the state government has informed the PDP local government council chairmanship candidates that it is the signing of the resignation letters in advance by them that would be predicated on how the state government support would be extended to them in order to win the elections and will also be used to determine the level of their loyalty to the party and the ruling government.

Dependable sources disclosed that the PDP candidates saw no reason why the state government would make them to be on a collision path  with the judgement of the apex court of the land with reference to the granting of financial autonomy to them by the federal government-led administration of President Tinubu.

It was further learnt that a stakeholders' meeting has been called for 11:00am today to be presided over by the Chief of Staff and the state party chairman where the PDP local government council chairmanship candidates would be coerced to append their signatures to the post- written resignation letters.

Commenting on the development, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a statement issued by the party's Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, today, noted that it was preposterous, nauseating and grossly illegal for any level of government within the federation to find a way to circumvent any of the judgements of the highest court in the land.

It is not an overstatement that any arm or level of government which is trying to disregard the rule of law is romancing a brazen illegality and should be prepared to face the consequences of their illegal actions and inactions.

It would be recalled that we as a political party, demanded from the current administration in the state its expected source of funding of the  five multi-billion naira flyovers in such an economically-disadvantaged state like Osun which its source of income is basically from the Federal allocations but without the state government coming up with a plausible response.

What is happening to the Osun State Government is an express manifestation of greed by an ineptitude government without a clear-cut focus and mission which is desirous to fraudulently impress the citizenry that it is having many projects to its credit without having a genuine wherewithal to execute the white elephant projects.

 It is fraudulent, duplicitous and lack of empathy for a state government to be spending the fund statutorily meant for the development of the grassroots on frivolities by the state government.

It is absurd that the state government that started the recruitment process of teachers about six months ago without luck after it had unjustifiably sacked the 1,500 teachers and several thousands of health workers recruited by its predecessor, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola's administration, could shamelessly descend so low to be working in order to circumvent the judgement of the Supreme Court of the land.

It should be a source of concern for the discerning members of the society how the current administration led by Governor Ademola Adeleke is still dilly-dallying on a pronouncement on the minimum wage for its workers after which several states have announced between N70,000.00K and N85,000.00K as their own minimum wages.

There is indeed a fire on the mountain for the reigning government in the state as there cannot be a deserving peace for a person who metaphorically swallowed a pestle.

It is criminal for a set of unpatriotic political gangsters to be demanding for undated post-written resignation letters from either elected or appointed political functionaries with a view to whipping them into the control of the state government in order to loot the state treasury through the local governments.

We make it abundantly clear that the repugnant and bizarre invention of the writing of undated resignation letters in advance by the PDP chairmanship candidates is an iron cast indication that the Adeleke-led administration is desperate to rig the forthcoming local government council elections which we shall resist by the instrumentality of the law of the land.

We are making a clarion call to the Osun State residents to open their eyes wide and refuse to vote for the PDP candidates in the forthcoming local government council elections as the intention of the ruling government is to continue the brazen depletion of the economy of the state through illegal cornering of the local government allocations from Abuja.

e-SIGNED:

Chief KOLA OLABISI,                      Osun State APC Director of Media and Information.