OSUN PDP ACCUSES AREGBESOLA OF BANK FIXING BAIL OUT FUND.

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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of osun State, on Monday, accused Governor Rauf Aregbesola of allegedly fixing in the bank for another two  months, the N35 billion bailout  fund released to the state by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) two weeks ago.

According to Nigerian tribune, The target, according to the party, was to make  huge gain from the interest  rate that the money would yield during the two months period the money would be lodged into the bank account.

In a statement endorsed by the PDP’s Director of Media and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi, the party said “we have been authoritatively informed that the package that is generally referred to as bailout, meant to pay backlog of workers’ salaries, was given to Osun State two weeks ago.
The statement read in part: “Only paper work was completed last week, but since the arrival of the money, exactly 14 days ago, Mr Aregbesola, in his usual ‘I don’t care nature’, instead of commencing payment of workers’ dues, lodged the N35 billion given to the state into an account.

However, the Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy to Aregbesola, Mr Semiu Okanlawon, in a statement, described the PDP’s claim as mere fabrication of lies to whip up sentiments against the governor, saying that “to those who are used to PDP’s notorious capacity for falsehood, this should not be surprising, as this is what defines the party head to toe.”
According to the statement, “it is very apparent that the only motive behind this ill-conceived statement is to again ignite hatred against the government, capitalising  on the ongoing staff verification exercise.
“PDP has, however, failed to scrutinise its own conspiratorial statement further, otherwise, it would have reasoned that right-thinking individuals would demand for proofs of any lodgement that shows any ulterior motive as being alleged.
“Besides, the verification exercise which the party claims is the subterfuge for this alleged lodgement in a fixed deposit account for personal gains is being handled with active involvement of civil servants.  
“Does the PDP expect the workers themselves to delay the verification for its imagined interests on the funds to materialise?”

But the PDP hinted that the bank that agreed to give Mr Aregbesola the biggest interest, running into several millions of naira was given the money to fix, stressing that “the governor is buying time, for over two weeks now, he had been hiding behind staff screening to fish out ghost workers and the exercise is designed to last for another eight weeks.
“We are only concerned that the already pauperised Osun workers are being further subjected to harrowing experience by the governor and we only hope that Mr Aregbesola will allow reason to prevail,” the party added.