The state administration of Osun has been told to avoid politicizing pension payment and management, which has resulted in a pension crisis in the state.
Senator Ademola Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship contender for Osun in 2022, issued this warning on Thursday.
Senator Adeleke argued that despite the fact that paying salaries, pensions, and gratuities should be a top priority for any responsible government, it needed the PDP's repeated outcry on behalf of retirees for the state administration to make a political statement.
According to Adeleke, the conduct allegedly resulted in the deaths of several seniors owing to immeasurable hardship. He emphasized that any government playing politics with the lives of senior citizens, or any citizen for that matter, was unacceptable.
"Imagine months of advocacy and calling out by opposition leaders before the governor considered it appropriate to heed the miseries of retirees," he stated
Even the announcement is clearly a political ploy to save face and entice people into another four-year quagmire. The state government has already misled about teacher recruitment, salary arrears, Ijeshaland university improvement, and now the release of funding for pension arrears.
Citizens cannot trust a governor who leads a government that relies on lies and misinformation. As a result, even APC members are now abusing the governor and his close aides on a daily basis. We saw that the Governor presided over the most heinous affront to democracy: inconclusive, rigged legislative primaries.
Workers, teachers, public servants, students, artisans, and women in Osun have lost faith in the governor. Surprisingly, even APC members are hoping for Governor Oyetola's defeat on July 16th.
Retired elementary school teachers, local government workers, retired secondary school teachers, public servants, and retirees from the state's academic institutions received bond certificates from the Osun State Government earlier on Thursday.
During the presentation of the bond certificates, the state governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, also claimed that his administration had spent more than N43 billion on pensions.