The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ekiti State and the opposition All Progressives Congress,APC in the state yesterday differed over an alleged plot to prevent access of the state government to fresh bailout to enable it pay arrears of workers’ salaries.
This was as the APC in the state yesterday denied funding the protest embarked upon by some groups in the state against the governor last Friday.
While the PDP, which condemned the alleged attempt by the APC to block the fresh bailout to Ekiti state wondered why the opposition party was playing politics with such an issue that affected workers, the APC denied writing such petition, saying it was a ploy to blackmail the party and set it against the workers.
PDP State Publicity Secretary, Mr Jackson Adebayo, described as wicked, the petition by APC against the state government to President Muhammadu Buhari not to grant the request for the bailout, saying: “With the petition, APC in the state has confirmed that its penchant for poor life for the public servants in Ekiti is very paramount to them,” saying even when the state governor is working out an alternative to the economic mess which the Buhariled Federal Government has dragged Nigeria into.
According to Adebayo, statements credited to proponents of the petition had indicated that APC chieftains were plotting to stop release of the funds to ensure the workers were perpetually at loggerheads with the PDP administration in a bid to pave way for the opposition party to return to power in the state in 2018 not minding the hardship being inflicted on the workers and indeed the populace.
PDP stressed that the reason adduced for the petition against allowing the fresh bailout for the state after all the conditions have been met by the government “is selfishness carried too far”
Adebayo said: “As a party we can only advise the APC leadership to desist from their evil plans against the people and government of the state all the time as no amount of dangerous tantrum being thrown by the opposition in the state can set back the developmental agenda of the PDP government.”
But APC State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, in a statement denied insinuation that APC had petitioned President Buhari not to grant Ekiti State another bailout to pay workers’ salaries.
Olatunbosun alleged that “instead of the governor to come clean that he could not meet the conditions set by the Federal Government to be qualified for another bailout,” he embarked on blackmail to set workers against APC leaders. We make bold to say that no amount of blackmail will stop APC from asking questions about the finances of the state.
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