Oyetola Engaged Only 2,000 Workers, Not 12,000 – Aide

The administration of the immediate past governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola only employed 2,000 workers in the last few months of its tenure and not 12,000 as alleged.

LEADERSHIP recalls that Oyetola’s successor, Governor Ademola Adeleke, said the immediate past administration in the state employed 12,000 workers at its twilight to put landmines for the new government.

But, speaking at a stakeholders’ engagement with members of the OsunYoung Professionals in Illorin, Kwara State capital yesterday, the former chief press secretary to Oyetola, Mr. Ismail Omipidan, described the allegation as fictitious.

“It’s a lie. We challenged them to prove it by producing a list of the 12,000 workers employed within two months and they couldn’t. What’s even the workforce of Osun state? The fact is that we only employed 1,500 teachers and 500 casual health workers whose appointments were regularised, making 2,000 workers. Some were even employed before the election and some others after the election. We worked till the last day commissioning projects and not that we were creating landmines”, he said.

Omipidan, who said that the Oyetola administration gave a good account of itself, said that the state internally generated revenue (IGR) was improved from about N10bn to about N19 billion annual revenue.

“We built over 500 Kilometers of roads within four years.”