Former Oyo State governor and candidate of the Accord Party in the last governorship election in the state, Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja, has declared that Oyo State has no business defaulting in the payment of workers’ salaries if not for the misplaced priorities of the state governor, Abiola Ajimobi.

Ladoja, who stated this yesterday while fielding questions from newsmen in his Bodija, Ibadan residence after the Eid-el-Kabir prayer at the Agodi Eid-praying ground in Ibadan, stressed that , “the Oyo State government should not be owing workers salaries if not because of misplaced of priority.”

He claimed that, “My administration left N13bn when I left the government, the state should not be owing workers’ salaries, but due to mismanagement, workers are suffering today in the state and this is also because what Senator Ibikunle Amosun in Ogun State did for N1.00, Ajimobi in Oyo State did same or N5.00.

“Apart from this, Ajimobi said he was establishing Technical University, promised five star hotel, used tax payers money to plant flowers, but as I’m talking, he has failed to fulfil his promises, so, misplaced priority is what is causing workers their salary in Oyo State today,” the former governor asserted.

Ladoja went on to advise President Muhammadu Buhari to be more focused and concentrate on governance than fighting corruption on the pages of newspapers, stressing that the situation in the country is becoming worrisome on daily basis if one should consider the increase in the rate of unemployment.

“The rate of kidnapping is increasing in the country due to lack of jobs for millions of youths that graduated from the Nigerian’ higher institutions. I read from the newspapers that President Buhari had directed the Inspector General of Police to produce Chief Olu Falae kidnapped about five days ago, I don’t know whether he had complied, we are not in the military era and I don’t believe that giving such an order is necessary,” he stated