I Will Not Pay Half Salaries, Says Adeleke

Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, yesterday promised to stop payment of half salaries if elected governor of the state.

Speaking at the All Soul Anglican Church, Osogbo, yesterday, Adeleke decried the suffering of civil servants which he described as man inhumanity to man saying “I will put an end to half salary.

According to him, “My government will ensure regular payment of workers’ salaries and pensioners’ entitlements .We will not owe workers. It is inhuman. A labourer deserves his or her pay. Public servants will enjoy good life under our government.

“Teachers’ welfare is a condition for better education results. Enabling environment will be provided for teachers to deliver on teaching and learning outcomes” he said.

Adeleke vowed to serve the people and place people’s welfare above all considerations, noting that “I will be a governor of the people, by the people and for the people.

“God will use me to put an end to the suffering of Osun people. I will stop punitive taxes and levies .I will relax mobile courts due to suffering and pains of the people. Artisans and local traders would be patronised. I will not export our job to Lagos. “

In his church sermon, the officiating pastor, Venerable W.Ojebode, prayed for the success of the candidate, stating that “the state needs a God fearing leader.

“We pray for your success. We pray the Lord will use you to take Osun to greater heights “.

However, the church yesterday received unusual visitors as thousands of Okada riders and passerby stormed the premises, chanting ‘Imole, Imole’, meaning the Light is the governor we are waiting for. The African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AUECOSOCC) has commended the Osun State Government for meeting the requirement set by the (AU) agenda 2063 programme for infrastructure development in Nigeria.

The regional body noted that each of the Osun social protection projects is in-line with the four key-critical sectors like education, transport and road networks, information and communication technology of the African Union.

This was even as the AU honoured Governor Rauf Aregbesola with an award of excellence in good governance and physical infrastructural, capital and human developments in the state.

The leadership of the AU-ECOSOCC gave the commendation at the weekend during a courtesy visit to Governor Aregbesola after the completion of the organisation’s three-day Agenda 2063 Advocacy Project Inspection Tour of Osun, at Government House, Osogbo.

The organisation commended Osun infrastructural development, saying it is second to none in the country.

The AU-ECOSOCC representative in Nigeria, Tunji John Asaolu, lauded the Aregbesola’s government for paying adequate attention to details of the African Union as reflected in the various developments the state had witnessed in the last seven and half years of his administration.

Asaolu who was accompanied by the AU-ECOSOCC Head of Secretariat in Nigeria, Ambassador Chinwe Maduke; the Ambassador of Antigua Barbudi in Nigeria, Ambassador Wallace Williams and AUECOSOCC Attaché, Mrs Kamsi Onyeuche, said Aregbesola has breathed light to governance through his monumental achievements.

He described the Osun infrastructural development as unprecedented in the history of any state in Nigeria and Africa, saying Osun had recorded giant strides worthy of emulation.

Asaolu said the organisation is proud of the Aregbesola’s achievements in all sectors, feats he described as unprecedented in the history of the state, Nigeria and Africa.

The official said the present administration in the state has justified the mandate and confidence reposed in it by the