This is just as it was gathered that the strategic move is, indeed, not only targeted at winning Osun State but also retaining the party’s hold on states which it currently controls, with findings revealing that the governors had begun to hold unusual meetings with key stakeholders in their respective states.
It
was learnt that the APC leadership has identified the civil service as a
vital segment of the Osun State population that must be won over before
the August 9 polls.
As part of the strategic move, the party has reportedly impressed it on the state government that it needed to settle all outstanding entitlements of workers and pensioners, while it should also keep an eye on the opposition’s scheme to use the workers against the party as it did in Ekiti.
With less than 43 days to the governorship election, Saturday Tribune learnt that the Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Honourable Najeem Salaam, met with permanent secretaries, tutors-general, executive secretaries, general managers and other civil servants on Grade Levels 16-17 in the employment of the state, at the House of Assembly chamber on Thursday.
A similar meeting was held with directors and other civil servants on Grade Levels 12-15 on Wednesday, with the governor, Rauf Aregbesola, said to have scheduled a meeting with school principals early next week, while a similar meeting will be held with teachers and the lower cadre of the state’s civil service, later.
According to findings, the meetings were targeted at assuaging the feelings of the workforce towards the state governor, which, it was gathered, would play a vital role in the forthcoming election.
A source in one of the meetings, who confided in the Saturday Tribune, said the speaker pleaded with the workers during the meeting.
“We met with the speaker today (Thursday) as scheduled. It was a begging galore to civil servants to forgive the government of its iniquities, with a promise to turn a new leaf. The speaker pleaded for our support to return the governor for another term, promising to acquaint the governor with some of the foibles identified with his government,” he said.
It was also learnt that as a result of Dr Kayode Fayemi’s loss in Ekiti, the APC governors have resolved to be more involved in the activities going on in Osun State, especially as they affect workers, teachers and other groups in the formal sector.
Further findings revealed that apart from Osun State, similar meetings were being held in Oyo and Ogun states.
The Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, Saturday Tribune learnt, held a closed door meeting with all elected political office holders on the platform of the APC in the state on Wednesday, while he also met youth groups later that day.
The meeting, held at the House of Chiefs, Ibadan, had heavy security presence, with journalists reportedly not let in into what was discussed at the meeting.
Reacting over the development, the director of publicity, research and strategy of the APC in Osun State, Mr Kunle Oyatomi, said “the PDP has been trying woefully to create disharmony between Aregbesola and the workers.
“Aregbesola has been paying workers’ entitlements as and when due since the beginning of his administration. No complaint. Some months ago, didn’t you hear the labour leadership at Gbangba Dekun in Ile Ife, saying there has been no worker friendly governor like Aregbesola since the creation of Osun State?
“The PDP has died in Osun State for a long time. Whatever their antics, even from Abuja will make no sense to the people.
They failed the people for eight years .Even, the blind can see that Aregbesola has changed the face of Osun.”
While countering the position of the APC, the Director General of Iyiola Omisore Campiagn Organisation (IOCO), Chief Lere Oyewumi, confirmed that “we are wooing every sector of our political economy of which civil servants are an integral part.
Aregbesola has short-changed everybody.
We want our state back and God willing, we have already got it.
Aregbesola should know that his time is up. We will get him out on August 9.
“The troubled ship of APC-led administration has finally wrecked in Osun State and the casualties are too injured to survive the wreckage.
It is a pity, it behoves him to prepare his handover notes in earnest, if he does not run away before or on the August 9, 2014 as his usual practice whenever he runs his followers into problems,” he said.
Source: #Tribune
As part of the strategic move, the party has reportedly impressed it on the state government that it needed to settle all outstanding entitlements of workers and pensioners, while it should also keep an eye on the opposition’s scheme to use the workers against the party as it did in Ekiti.
With less than 43 days to the governorship election, Saturday Tribune learnt that the Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Honourable Najeem Salaam, met with permanent secretaries, tutors-general, executive secretaries, general managers and other civil servants on Grade Levels 16-17 in the employment of the state, at the House of Assembly chamber on Thursday.
A similar meeting was held with directors and other civil servants on Grade Levels 12-15 on Wednesday, with the governor, Rauf Aregbesola, said to have scheduled a meeting with school principals early next week, while a similar meeting will be held with teachers and the lower cadre of the state’s civil service, later.
According to findings, the meetings were targeted at assuaging the feelings of the workforce towards the state governor, which, it was gathered, would play a vital role in the forthcoming election.
A source in one of the meetings, who confided in the Saturday Tribune, said the speaker pleaded with the workers during the meeting.
“We met with the speaker today (Thursday) as scheduled. It was a begging galore to civil servants to forgive the government of its iniquities, with a promise to turn a new leaf. The speaker pleaded for our support to return the governor for another term, promising to acquaint the governor with some of the foibles identified with his government,” he said.
It was also learnt that as a result of Dr Kayode Fayemi’s loss in Ekiti, the APC governors have resolved to be more involved in the activities going on in Osun State, especially as they affect workers, teachers and other groups in the formal sector.
Further findings revealed that apart from Osun State, similar meetings were being held in Oyo and Ogun states.
The Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, Saturday Tribune learnt, held a closed door meeting with all elected political office holders on the platform of the APC in the state on Wednesday, while he also met youth groups later that day.
The meeting, held at the House of Chiefs, Ibadan, had heavy security presence, with journalists reportedly not let in into what was discussed at the meeting.
Reacting over the development, the director of publicity, research and strategy of the APC in Osun State, Mr Kunle Oyatomi, said “the PDP has been trying woefully to create disharmony between Aregbesola and the workers.
“Aregbesola has been paying workers’ entitlements as and when due since the beginning of his administration. No complaint. Some months ago, didn’t you hear the labour leadership at Gbangba Dekun in Ile Ife, saying there has been no worker friendly governor like Aregbesola since the creation of Osun State?
“The PDP has died in Osun State for a long time. Whatever their antics, even from Abuja will make no sense to the people.
They failed the people for eight years .Even, the blind can see that Aregbesola has changed the face of Osun.”
While countering the position of the APC, the Director General of Iyiola Omisore Campiagn Organisation (IOCO), Chief Lere Oyewumi, confirmed that “we are wooing every sector of our political economy of which civil servants are an integral part.
Aregbesola has short-changed everybody.
We want our state back and God willing, we have already got it.
Aregbesola should know that his time is up. We will get him out on August 9.
“The troubled ship of APC-led administration has finally wrecked in Osun State and the casualties are too injured to survive the wreckage.
It is a pity, it behoves him to prepare his handover notes in earnest, if he does not run away before or on the August 9, 2014 as his usual practice whenever he runs his followers into problems,” he said.
Source: #Tribune
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