Aregbesola, PDP trade words over achievements

Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, and the Peoples Democratic Party in the state are in a fresh war of words over the achievements of the current administration.



The governor, in a statement on Sunday by his media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, said his administration had done so well and the only option available to the PDP was to embark on a campaign of calumny against him.

But the Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Bola Ajao, described the achievements of the administration as imaginary ones.

Aregbesola, however, urged the people of the state to be wary of the “lies from the PDP” as the state began preparations for governorship election coming up later this year.

He said, “We are compelled to alert our people in the state at this time that ahead of the 2014 governorship election, the only thing that will be left for the PDP is its leaders’ desperate bid to gain power, lord it over our people and further sharpen their capacity to lie brazenly.

“If anyone is in doubt over the antecedents of the PDP, a quick reminder of some of the lies told, which were never substantiated, will be enough.

“The PDP, in its attempt to take the wind off the sail of the noble efforts at giving the state and its people a new brand identity to promote economic wellbeing, went to town with tales that Aregbesola had concluded plans to take Osun out of the Nigerian federation through secession.

“This was the basis for its call on the Federal Government to stop allocating funds to the state. Rather than prove the allegation, PDP governments in other states of the federation swallowed their pride and copied the Osun brand initiative. No PDP leader has had the honour to confess that they lied in their desperate move to cripple the government.”

But the PDP said that the achievements of the governor were mere propaganda to deceive the people of the state to vote Aregbesola again.

The PDP statement reads, “On a daily and continuous basis, Osun people are being inundated with endless propaganda that Osun State has become an Eldorado. It is often postulated that infrastructures now operational in the state are world-class. Nothing can be farther from the truth than this.

“It is also on this same OSBC Channel that top officials of this State of Osun came to sing discordant tunes boasting and announcing different dates as the date of inauguration of a non- existing airport in Ido-Osun. While Amuda S.A., of the Ministry of Works announced February 2014, Ogbeni Akere, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, announced May 2014. We are waiting as these dates only exist in the imagination of the announcers. There is no such airport anywhere in Osun.”