Rauf Aregbesola, Osun state governor stated that he is pained by the inability of his administration to pay civil servants in the state for the past six months.
He said this on Thursday in Ilesa, during the unveiling of the partnership of the Airtel Nigeria with RLG, which is partly owned by the state.
Aregbesola told the gathering and his itinerant praise singers that he would not dance as he usually does because of the mood in the state. The governor, who was obviously carried away however joined the praise singers after that.
” It is painful to me that we have not paid our workers but we are working to put this one behind us. Let them know that we are pained by this situation but those who created the problem will soon go away. We will not dance today. After May 29th, light will come to Nigeria, joy will come to Nigeria, prosperity will come to Nigeria.They are the harbinger of the challenge we are facing in Nigeria but they will never come back again. I thank you because you joined us to chase them out with our votes, they will never come back again,” he said.
Ogbeni Aregbesola as he is popularly called added that the opposition parties in Osun State had claimed that the factory (RLG) was established to secure the votes of the people during the August 9th governorship poll, but he said the event had proved them wrong.
“The opposition parties were defeated five times in a row, the victory of the All Progressives Congress had shown that the opposition in the state was so weak. The defunct ACN had just Lagos State after 2003 election but the party had grown so big now that it would soon occupy the government at the federal level,” Aregbesola said.
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