WITH NIGERIAN STATES GRAPPLING WITH RECESSION, QUESTIONS ARE BEING RAISED BY THE CITIZENRY ON HOW STATES GOT SUNK INTO INABILITY TO PAY SALARIES AND INFRASTRUCTURAL DEFECTS.
IN OSUN STATE THE CASE IS NO DIFFERENT AS MANY ARE COMPARING WHAT IS ON GROUND WITH THE BILLIONS OF NAIRA THAT ACCRUED TO THE STATE IN SIX YEARS.
TimeNewsNg XRAYS THE AREGBESOLA ADMINISTRATION AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF DEVELOPMENT.
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OSUN STATE NO DOUBT HAS TAKEN A LEAP FROM WHERE IT WAS AT CREATION. EACH GOVERNMENT PLAYING ITS PART ON THE JOURNEY TO WHERE IT IS THE AREGBESOLA GOVERNMENT SINCE INCEPTION IN 2010 HAS ALSO HAD ITS ACHIEVEMENTS. ROADS, AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURES.
HOWEVER ISSUES ABOUND. FIRST IS ON THE TOTAL MONEY THAT ACCRUED TO THE STATE IN THE LAST SIX YEARS. WHILE THE STATE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T SAY THE ACTUAL REVENIE ACCRUED TO THE STATE SO FAR, KOLA IBRAHEEM, THE OSUN STATE SECRETARY OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST FRONT HAS GOTTEN OVER 500 BILLION NAIRA IN ALLOCATION AND LOANS.
AND THEN, THE EDUCATION SECTOR WHERE DIVERSE BAROMETERS WERE USED TO MEASURE THE SUCCESS OR OTHERWISE OF THE GOVERNMENT. CITING ISSUES LIKE OPON IMO AND THE SINGLE UNIFORM POLICY INTRODUCED BY THE AREGBESOLA GOVERNMENT.
THE HEALTH SECTOR IS ALSO NOT LEFT OUT OF SCRUTINY.
BUT IN THE MIDST OF ALL THESE IS THE INTRACTABLE PENSIONERS’ CRISIS
AND WHILE SOME PROJECTS ARE COMPLETED, OTHERS CAN BE DESCRIBED AS ABANDONED IN THE WORDS OF SUNDAY BISI, THE PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR A FACTION OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN OSUN STATE.
THE DEBT PROFILE OF THE STATE IS ALSO A KNOTTY ISSUE. ACCORDING TO HONOURABLE BABATUNDE OLATUNJI, THE CHAIRMAN HOUSE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, OSUN STATE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE ALL THE FEATS RECORDED IF NOT FOR THE INGENUITY OF APPROACHING THE FINANCIAL CAPITAL MARKET AT THE TIME IT DID. BUT TO KOLA IBRAHEEM, OSUN STATE MIGHT HAVE BEEN LOCKED IN DEBT BONDAGE FOR A LONG WHILE TO COME.
WITH ALL THESE PLACED SIDE BY SIDE, ITS DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS AS FAR AS THE GOVERNMENT’S RATING IS CONCERNED.REMI OMOWAYE, SSA TO THE GOVERNOR ON NEW ELECTRONIC SAYS THE AREGBESOLA HAS SET OSUN STATE ON A NEW PEDESTAL THOUGH THE OPPOSITE WAS THE VIEW OF THOSE CRITICAL OF THE GOVERNMENT ON THE ROUND THAT THE MONIES ACCRUED TO THE STATE IN THE LAS SIX YEARS DID NOT IN ANY WAY JUSTIFY THE WHAT OSUN STATE IS EXPERIENCING FOR THE NOW ACCUSING THE GOVERNMENT OF GROSS MISMANAGEMENT.
AND NOW THAT IT IS LESS THAN TWO YEARS TO THE END OF THE AREGBESOLA ADMINISTRATION,IT IS CLEAR THAT ALL THESE ISSUES WILL SHAPE THE POLITICAL SPACE IN THE STATE AS THE 2018 GOVERNORSHIP RACE GATHERS MOMENTUM
