Group To Senators: Osun People Will Curse You Every Day If You Confirm Aregbesola

By Our Correspondent

A civil group, the Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun
State (CSCEOS) has urged the Senate to reject the former Osun State governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola as a minister vowing to curse the senators every day if they do otherwise.

The group in a statement issued in Osogbo by its Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman and Secretary, Comrade Ebenezer
Oladapo explained that clearing Aregbesola as a ministerial candidate would
be very unfortunate, sad and an act detrimental to the ethos of good
governance.

According to CSCEOS, Aregbesola ran the most oppressive, corruptive and
wicked government in Osun State, adding the ex-governor is not fit in
all ramifications to be saddled with the leadership responsibility at the
national level.

“Aregbesola’s reign brought untold pains and hardship on the people of the
state while his anti-peoples policies sent many to their early graves and
till today the injuries he inflicted on the citizenry are yet to be
healed.

Aregbesola’s administration between 2010 and 2018 “in our state represented disaster, destruction, evil, mis-governance, satanic and brutish as he made life unbearable for the good people of the State. Today, Osun State is still owing her workers and retirees over 13 months of salaries and
arrears”.

“We wondered in the first instance how President Muhammadu Buhari had to include Aregbesola in his ministerial list. Which ministry is he going to serve? Did Buhari ever investigate how Aregbesola managed Osun State? Did Buhari know that Aregbesola’s governance brought Osun unto her knees?

“He destroyed the state education and health sectors. Aregbesola cannot
record a single success in the mainstream sector which is agriculture.
Roads are in comatose in the state. Why is a kilometer of roads in Osun
being awarded as a rate of N1 billion? Yet, Osun is the third most indebted
state in Nigeria courtesy of Aregbesola.

“Let our senators ask Aregbesola what happened to the so called tablet of
knowledge “Opon-Imo”, O-Uniform, O-Ram, O-Tram, O-Meat, O-School, O-Hub and many other “O” projects. Let them ask Aregbesola how much he spent on MKO Abiola airport. Let the senators ask our former governor how he spent over N500billion loans he took.

“We need answers to why out of 36 states, he was the only one who changed the name of the state to “State of Osun” and why was he the only one running a parliamentary system in the state local governments in a
presidential system?

“Aregbesola should tell the world who the “State Boys” are? He should tell
everyone why he decided to be paying half salaries to workers and why he
refused to pay retirees in spite of billions of naira bailouts by the
federal government.

“Maybe the president did not know that our group wrote several petitions to EFCC and ICPC attaching vital documents on how billions of naira was stolen from Osun State. Yet, the anti-graft agencies never made any effort to investigate them possibly because the men are in the good book of the presidency”.

CSCEO stated that Aregbesola does not fit to represent the state in the yet
to be constituted Buhari-led government, urging him to withdraw the
ministerial nominee.

“If National Assembly gives nod to the nomination of Aregbesola, people of
the State would be cursing President Buhari and leadership and members of the upper chamber everyday till the end of their tenure.

“Again, we reinstate that Rauf Aregbesola put Osun State into debt regime
and milked the State dry and today state find it difficult to perform her
obligations of paying workers’ salaries and pensions”, the statement added.

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