By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
The Osun State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed the acting Chair of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Elder Sunday Akanfe Atidade, for spewing lies to deceive and misinform the people of the state about the state government.
The opposition party was taken to the cleaners by the APC in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Barr. Kunle Oyatomi and made available to newsmen on Saturday in Osogbo, the state capital.
The party said nothing could be more perilous and disastrous than having a novice and ill-infomed person as a team leader.
Osun APC was countering Atidade’s assertions, who is the Acting chairman of the Osun PDP, in a statement credited to him recently after his predecessor’s removal was ratified, that “there is no infrastructure developments in Osun and pensioners are suffering and dying on daily basis as a result of non-payment of their pensions.”
APC said It was “absolutely unfortunate” that some PDP leaders in Osun had sold their birthrights and that was why they couldn’t manage simple internal crisis and prevent the party from being controlled by a single man – from his Ede country home.
“To set the record straight, Osun has witnessed progressive development projects and Socio-economic re-engineering in the last 22 months of Oyetola-led APC government.
“Besides, this administration alone has constructed more roads than PDP did in Osun for 90 months.
“It is also on record that Governor Oyetola, from inception of this administration, has taken the welfare of workers and retirees as a priority to the extent that active workers and pensioners in Osun are being paid as and when due,” Oyatomi stated.
The party therefore urged the citizens of Osun to stand firm and be resolute in their support for the APC-led government and disregard “the disorganized PDP politicians who are desperate for power at all cost.”
