Ekiti Saga: We Are Not Worried, Ogun APC Insists In the aftermath of the outcome of the Ekiti State governorship election of June 21, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State has said the party is not worried about the loss of the party to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Ayo Fayose. The party, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Sola Lawal, said it is confident that verifiable infrastructural rebirth of the state effected by the Senator Ibikunle Amosun administration would always be translated into electoral triumph for the APC. It debunked suggestions that the Amosun administration embarked on panicky welfares measures following the trouncing of APC in Ekiti State, saying that all recently executed policies of the administration have been long planned and commenced. “For instance, the public distribution of severance gratuity cheques to more than 200 past political office holders by the administration on Tuesday June 24, barely 48 hours after the Ekiti election, could not have been planned, processed and executed in such a limited period of time if it was informed by the outcome of Ekiti election,” the party stated. APC recalled that at the occasion, the governor pointed out that the exercise was delayed by the insistence of the administration to ensure payment of backlog of pension and gratuity of civil servants before turning to past political office holders. The party further stated that the interactive parley the governor had with civil servants the following day could not also have been informed by the Ekiti electoral saga, since the event was part of Civil Service Week that ran between June 16 and 22, adding that other items on the week-long event, included tour of government projects and friendly football tournaments. “Similarly, the Civil Service Week also featured hand over of 200 units of affordable houses to civil servants in the state in furtherance of the administration’s policy of promoting better standards of living for civil servants. “No magic could have achieved this barely two days after Ekiti if the idea was a stampeded reaction to the election in question,” the party said. According to the APC, the Amosun administration, since assumption of office, has always paid salaries promptly, including the extra one month salary every December, a feat never achieved by any past administration before him. The party also observed that the Amosun administration committed itself to clearing of backlog of pension, leave bonuses, allowances and areas of salaries ever since assumption of office , adding that workers subsidised transportation scheme has become operational more than a year ago. “On the educational front, massive investments in schools’ infrastructure, such as intra-school road network and new modern classrooms have been effected, while bursaries have been astronomically increased and promptly paid apart from scholarship and grants to challenged students,” the party concluded.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 05:28:02 +0000
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