By Tunde Sholanke
Osun State Governor,Ademola Adeleke,says workers illegally employed by his immediate predecessor,are no longer in the emply of the state government.
He said no amount of blackmail would make him reabsorbed the illegal workers.
Adeleke’s position was sequel to pocket of demonstration by members of the All Progressives Congress(APC) employed towards the tail end of the last government.
Speaking through his Special Assistant, Community Communications, Mr Tunde Busari,Adeleke noted that his immediate predecessor,deliberately padded the state payroll with APC members to create stage for deeper financial crisis, conflict and disharmony.
He said:” Those engaging in demonstrations are APC members smuggled into the state payroll by former Governor Oyetola. By virtue of the Executive Order issued by Mr Governor, those illegally employed remain sacked and are no longer staff of the state government. No amount of demonstration and blackmail can change that reality.
” We have the details of plan by APC to deploy its disengaged members for demonstration. However, the people of Osun state are in the know of the whole situation especially the several warnings by the PDP while in opposition. We warned against colluding with Mr Oyetola during those last days when the former Governor was issuing employment letter despite the State’s inability to pay staff salaries.
” Those APC members are now playing the script. They have failed from the beginning as this administration will not bow to unjustified demands from those who collaborated to deepen Osun financial woes”.