Aregbesola
Osun State Governor, Aregbesola yesterday described the state-based Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation as faceless and agents of destabilisation being used as a stooge by its paid political enemies of the present administration in the state.
The Bureau of Communication and Strategy in the Office of the Governor in a statement signed by its Director, Semiu Okanlawon, stated that the coalition is full of deceitful tongues and lying lips, and charged members of the public to disregard its claim on the alleged invitation of the governor by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on the diversion of funds belonging to the Local Governments in the state.
The Bureau said: “The self-appointed civil society group is a group that had been making bogus claims against Governor Aregbesola and his government without producing evidence to substantiate any of the allegations. “This was the group that accused Governor Aregbesola of embezzling the N34.988bn bailout loan obtained last year as part of the Federal Government’s intervention to assist states to meet their salary obligations”. “The same group had accused Governor Aregbesola of borrowing over N750 billion, which, according to it, has not impacted on the socio-economic lives of the people of Osun.
“The government had also been accused of planning a mass sack of civil servants in the state especially in the wake of the challenges to meet salary obligations by the state. “It is instructive that none of these allegations and others from this same group has been proved to be true.” The Bureau described the CSCEO as dubious twoman contraption put together and masquerading as a pro-people organisation.
“We must remind Nigerians lest they take this group serious at all that Mr. Sulaiman Adeniyi who claims to be the leader of the group and Seun Adeoye, have been no more than two hired hands of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun and its allied opposition elements.
“It is pertinent to state that the so-called civil society group is a contraption hurriedly put together by Adeniyi and Adeoye to push the dubious agenda of their sponsors, the humiliated governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Senator Iyiola Omisore and Mr. Segun Akinwusi respectively to blackmail Governor Aregbesola and his government.”