Osun State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party has warned the state governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, to stop copying Lagos and focus on the economic planning of the state.
The party also advised him to suspend his plans to create 39 additional local government development councils in the state.
The Director of Media and Strategy of the PDP in Osun State, Mr. Diran Odeyemi in a statement said “The reality in Osun calls for serious planning because the economy of the state now or even in near future cannot cope with 69 local government councils when the state could not generate fund to develop the existing 30 councils.
“This is a poorly conceived idea lacking the understanding and needs of the people of Osun State while its proposed execution at this time shows that Governor Aregbesola has lost ideas of what is next in the state.
“The rest of the country must be astonished about a governor that has not been able to fulfill its financial obligations to the workforce and plunge the state economy into a crisis, but interestingly planning to create new councils to make Osun as the only state in Nigeria to have 69 councils.
“Copying Lagos notes is affecting Osun negatively. Buying helicopter, creating LCDAs, planting flowers are all Lagos ideas. Aregbesola is running Osun as a sole administrator. In his first term, it took him almost one year before he could constitute his cabinet.
“Again 10 months into his second term, the cabinet has not been formed and may not be formed at all for obvious reasons. Even, when his commissioners were in office, the whole state knows he does not listen to their suggestions. He governs the state as a sole administrator.”
Meanwhile Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko has said that issue of unpaid salaries will soon be a thing of the past.
Mimiko said this during the 13th Anniversary of the Prayer Centre Church of God in Akure, the state capital.
Mimiko said “We should all be thankful to God in this country, because many people thought that by today our country will be in a crisis but I’m glad to say that each time we thought that it’s all over for Nigeria, God always come to our rescue. Where we are today is because of the prayers of saints.
“God promised that there will be peace and prosperity in our palaces, what we are going through today in this country will soon pass away, even the inability of state governments to pay salaries.”