Aregbesola Plans Additional 36 LGs For Osun Despite Unpaid Salaries

Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday advised Governor Rauf Aregbesola  to suspend his plans to create additional local government councils in the state.

In a statement issued in Osogbo yesterday by the party’s director of Media and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi, the party said, “The reality in Osun calls for serious planning because the economy of the state now cannot cope with such project. Osun State House of Assembly at the twilight of its tenure passed a bill establishing 36 additional local government councils after considering the outcome of a referendum conducted by Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC).

PDP said the rest of the country would be astonished to hear that a government that cannot fulfill its financial obligations to the workforce would plan to create new councils that would make Osun the only state in Nigeria to have 69 councils.

The PDP added that Aregbesola, rather than taking into consideration the peculiar needs of Osun State and its financial capacity, has been implementing wholesale all programmes of Lagos Sta