APC fingers Omisore in Aregbesola’s woes

There is no respite yet for Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State despite his recent payment of one month salary out of the over seven months areas owed civil servants in the state as an Osogbo based human rights group, Civil Societies’ Coalition for Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEO) leads a 500,000 man march in the state today (Tuesday) in support of his impeachment.

The group in a statement in Osogbo by its chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Sulaiman Alimi, maintained that the rally would be a huge one as Aregbesola and his deputy, Laoye Tomori must be impeached if the allegation of mismanagement of the state treasury against them is found to be true.

Alimi insisted that the allegations raised in the petition of Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, of the state High Court, that the governor should be investigated for financial recklessness should not be swept under the carpet.

But, in its reaction, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), called on security agencies to hold the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyiola Omisore and his party responsible for any breach of the peace in the state.

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The party, in a statement by the Director of Media and Strategy, Barrister kunle Oyatomi, said it was aware of plans by a group of profiteers being sponsored by Omisore and his party to unleash violence on the state using the issue of workers’ salaries as camouflage.

“The APC government under Aregbesola in Osun has been having very fruitful negotiations with the labour and we can therefore say without any contradiction that the labour has no hand in this proposed protest,” the party said.

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