Osun State Governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke, has revealed the reason why the former governor Rauf Aregbesola and incumbent governor Gboyega Oyetola were unable to pay civil servant salaries and pensions.
The Governor-elect said both Aregbesola and Oyetola used state resources to pay the debt owed to Lagos’s godfather.
“Why they (Oyetola and Aregbesola administration) cannot pay them is because a lot of our money is going outside. A lot of our money is taken to Lagos or somewhere.
“The problem of when someone wants to run, they will go and borrow something or you have one godfather who you are borrowing money from.
“And at the end of the day, you will be paying the debt. You will not be able to do anything,” Mr Adeleke said.
The governor-elect disclosed this in an interview with Channels TV on Monday night, a day after he was declared the winner of the July 16 Osun gubernatorial election.
He was responding to the question of how he intends to offset the backlog of pensions and salaries his administration was set to inherit from successive governments.
Mr Aregbesola, a political protégé of former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu, governed Osun from 2010 to 2018. He was succeeded by Mr Oyetola, a cousin to Mr Tinubu.
Mr Adeleke emerged the winner of Osun’s governorship election, polling 403,371 votes to defeat incumbent Governor Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress who scored 375,027 votes.
