The faith of the 12,000 workers employed by the outgoing governor Gboyega Oyetola still hang in the balance as the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) said al, actions taken by the governor after losing election cannot stand.
The Caretaker Chairman of the Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Akindele Adekunle,
Adekunle said the workers will be sacked because their employment was done after the July 16 governorship polls won by Senator Ademola Adeleke.
He said the recruitment was done to hand over a financially weak state to Adeleke.
Adekunle said, “We also want to put on records that the outgoing administration has employed over 12, 000 workers of various cadres since the July 16 elections.
“We have been warning members of the public not to engage in such bankrupting agenda. We had also issued several statements declaring such employment exercise a nullity.
“Any employment conducted in the last several weeks will not stand and will not enter the state payroll. We are in the know that the majority of those employed against due process are members of the APC purposely designed to weaken the financial base of the state.
“Our administration will not hesitate to sack all those illegally employed by Mr. Oyetola in his last days in the office.”
Adekunle also noted that all key appointments, such as the ones for Iree and Esa Oke Polytechnics as well as the recent “criminal appointment” of the new Project Coordinator for the World Bank-sponsored Rural Access and Agricultural Mobility Agency project, would be promptly upturned.
According to him, they were done in contravention of enabling laws of the institutions and regulatory protocol governing the critical rural development project.
Adekunle said Osun State was about to lose out on the $150m World Bank-supported Rural Access and Agricultural Mobility Agency due to the “illegal sacking” of the present project Coordinator whose appointment was advertised, noting that proper selection was supervised by the World Bank officials led by the National Coordinator in the year 2020.
He also issued a stern warning to accountants and financial institutions against consenting to last-minute fund movement.
The PDP chairman further noted that a lot of funds movement was moving out of the state treasury within the state government and called the attention of financial institutions to the need to avoid complicity and criminal partnership.