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APC, PDP trade words over N6.2m Osun allocation
Osun State chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC, have traded words on the status of the finances of the state.
The latest faceoff is coming after it came to light that the state only received N6.2m in the latest round of allocation from the Federation Account.
The PDP, in a statement by spokesperson in the state, Prince Diran Odeyemi, in Osogbo, called on the Federal Government to speak up on the financial status of Osun state and why the state has been getting least allocation in the last six months.
The party said: “Rather than keep on shielding Governor Aregbesola, The Ministry of Finance and Debt Management Office (DMO) and other relevant agencies of government must explain to Nigerians why Osun got a paltry N6.2 million out of N2.4 billion due to the state.
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However, the APC, in a statement by its Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, called on all public-spirited men and women in the state to contribute ideas to solving the economic crisis ravaging the
country and the state, rather than indulging in “self-defeatist criticism” of the Rauf Aregbesola-led APC government of the state.
According to the PDP, it has become necessary for the federal government and its agencies that are overseeing finances of states to speak on the revelation that Osun got N6.2 million from the federation account for the month of February, adding that the actual debt status of the state should be publicly displayed and the terms of repayment must also be disclosed to lay to rest the growing apprehension among the people of Osun state at home and abroad.
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