Our workers not getting the best – Akinbade
A former Secretary to the Osun State Government, Engr Fatai Akinbade has asserted that workers and the people of the state, deserve the best from the government at all times.
Akinbade who is one the leading governorship aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made this known in his congratulatory message to workers on the Workers’ Day Celebration.
He noted that workers and the people were central to the successful execution of government policies, insisting that those at the helms of the affairs should always stop at nothing in providing the needed succour that would enhance their living standards.
In particular, the former SSG bemoaned the fate of workers in the state who have been on half salaries for about 3 years running under Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s administration.
“It is disheartening. Anguish and sufferings are boldly written on the faces of our people as a result of APC’s misrule. Our workers are badly treated while an average man on the street of Osun,has not faired better” he lamented.
According to Akinbade, having served the state as a former Commissioner and SSG at different times, he was conversant with the needs of civil servants and how to assuage the present hardship they are going through.
“By the grace of God,if I clinch the PDP ticket as its candidate and I eventually win the governorship race in September, this year, then I can assure our workers that their years of despair will be over. Apart from prompt and regular payment of salaries, promotions will go unhindered. This is beyond political loose talks and rhetoric”.
He insisted this could be achieved through prudence and by blocking wastages that have been serving as conduit pipes under the present dispensation.
While craving for their support to bring to bear his aspiration, Akinbade urged the workers to always remain law-abiding, stressing, “This is because what remains is just at the tip our fingers. It’s a question of few more months for our nightmares to be over when Aregbesola and his cohort must have left the state”.
