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Exposed: Oyinlola’s Aborted Plan To Sack 200 Workers

May 14th, 2010 | By Bankole Alao David | Category: Front Page Story

Olagunsoye OyinlolaContrary to the allegation levelled against former governor of Osun State,
Chief Bisi Akande, by the embattled Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola that the former advised him to sack workers, investigation conducted by OSUN DEFENDER has revealed that it was the latter’s way of calling the dog a bad name in order to hang it.

Information at the disposal of OSUN DEFENDER has authoritatively shown that it was Oyinlola’s kitchen cabinet members that fabricated the story with a view to subjecting the former governor to ridicule to save the his (governor’s) face.

According to an authoritative source close the State House of Assembly in Osun State , Oyinlola had long determined to sack close to 200 workers since last year, premising his argument on the low revenue profile of the state, but chose to tarry for the outcome of the election petition tribunal sitting.

Our source hinted that the governor sent the letter to intimate the House on his move to downsize workers of the state to the Speaker, Mr. Adejare Bello together with the letter of notification on the controversial N18.3 billion loan.

It was learnt that the Speaker was the only saving grace, as he refused to read the letter to his colleagues at the executive and the parliamentary sessions respectively in order to prevent it from the media hype.

In the contents of the letter, the troubled governor painted the picture of a state that is expending the largest chunk of its revenue on the payment of salaries and allowances of the workers alone with nothing left to execute projects, according to him, a situation that has given the opposition the leeway to descend on his administration.

He then insisted that his predecessor who sacked workers in droves and later came up with projects of different kinds has started receiving accolades for his projects, as, according to him, nobody was talking about his alleged anti-labour action again in the state.

Oyinlola then stressed that it has become very imperative for him to sack workers in order to save money for projects that would be showcased when he leaves office or the House empowers him urgently to take the bank loan explained in the second letter.

However, the handlers of the governor would not want to face the second phase of the crisis of the letter informing the House about the mass sack, they then asked the governor to blow the loan the Bola Ige administration of the old Oyo State of E127 million for the Osogbo-Ede Water Works beyond the normal proportion in order to divert attention of the public from the N18.3 million loan saga.

The Oyinlola minders then came up with a fabrication that would indict Chief Akande, who was perceived as a perfect administrator of resources, but the governor (Oyinlola) burnt his fingers when the former governor came up with an empirical explanation that later indicted his godfather, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade as the mastermind of the loan.

Akande also x-rayed how the Ooni, who is regarded as the unofficial patron of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today, in Osun State , mounted serious pressure on him to take loan negotiated by his predecessor and how he refused to drag the state into debt.

In order to implicate Akande in the sinister plan of the governor to sack workers, the minders of the perturbed Oyinlola then twisted the second to the last paragraph of Akande’s statement which was used in some newspapers, where he (Akande) said that Oyinlola should not push the state that has been stretched to the brink of collapse through over-bloated overhead cost already, to mean that he had advised Oyinlola to sack workers.

Speaking on the development, the spokesman for the former governor, Mr. Lani Baderinwa challenged Oyinlola and his men to publish the letter where Akande had advised Oyinlola to sack workers, describing the allegation levelled against his boss as a figment of the imagination of Peoples Democratic Party and the governor, saying that Akande was not interested in creating problems for the state workers.

According to him: “Let me make it clear that Chief Akande could not deny the responsibility of all what happened during his tenure, but the labour should know that Akande has nothing personal against the workers and that some people from the senior cadre were the movers and executors of the right-sizing of the workers then.

“Akande knows that the workers are not getting the best under Oyinlola’s administration, he knows that they are underemployed under him and would never advise that more problems be given to the workers again and if Oyinlola insists, let him publish his own version of the letter”, Baderinwa said.

Besides, our source close to the Government House in Osogbo has hinted that the governor chose to deceive the public with the allegation with a view to inciting the workers against the Action Congress (AC) in anticipation of the outcome of the retrial tribunal.

By goke butika

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  1. BabaRabb May 14th, 2010 4:27 pm :

    The PDP boat is sinking fast and no doubt they must drag whoever stay on their path along with them. Please tell they to address the issue of the loan any stop the diversion.

  2. Ayekoto[ife] May 14th, 2010 6:40 pm :

    As much as i appreciate and agree with most of osun defender’s write up,one will discovered that it’s a one sided paper,a pro ac and anti pdp.I have not for once read any good thing about pdp or it members and have never read anything bad about ac her members.I think a quality paper should have both coin.

  3. Osun oni bajeeee May 15th, 2010 8:36 pm :

    its now high time the osun state AC should focus on the 2011 instead of wasting time till sum few months of elections cos its seem this stupid oyinlola would finish his term.
    just trying to delay.
    Aregbesola was not also a saint .i know him well and also have informations that went on during his days as a commisioner in lagos….(LAMATA)
    We need a fresh blood in osun not all those smokers / jokers from lagos!
    LIPS CLOSED.

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