No plan to sack workers in Osun – APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State of Osun has debunked the rumour that Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is planning a massive retrenchment of senior civil servants on grade level 12 and above, including other workers above the age of 50 from the state’s employment after the general elections.

In a statement from the party’s Directorate of Publicity Research and Strategy, the APC described the rumour as, “the usual silly spin of falsehood characteristic of PDP’s evil genius for manufacturing and propagating wicked lies especially in the State of Osun.”

According to the APC, “at no time did Aregbesola contemplate to retrench any staff of any grade or age, and no such thing will be allowed to happen any time soon or in the future.

“From day one, the policy of “gainful employment” of the APC governor, Rauf Aregbesola, had been, continues to remain and will be the intensified mantra of the party in the months and years ahead.

“The only monstrous obstacle to this policy,” the APC contended, “is the evil construct of the PDP-led federal government in starving Osun State of its legitimate statutory funding.

“Not many people knew, until Governor Fashola of Lagos State revealed recently, that to further starve APC states in particular of funding assistance, the PDP Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ordered the banks not to help fund state government projects.

“This kind of frustrating impediment is what the PDP is using to force states of the opposition to look for ways to overcome deliberate strangulation, through forced retirement of workers.

“But the APC government is more innovative and constructive than the PDP had imagined.

“Rather than contemplate retrenchment as the PDP was scheming, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is planning the creation of more jobs for the people; and one of the ways, indeed the most effective way to achieve this for Nigerians is to defeat the PDP on March 28 and April 11 Presidential and general election,” the APC said.

“The evil that the PDP has become, through its promoting of massive corruption in the system, has brought Nigeria to its knees,” the APC argued, adding that, “Unless Nigerians as a people remove this obstacle to their progress and well-being, their suffering will deteriorate.”

The APC therefore, alerted the people of Osun not to fall for the lies of the PDP because their purpose is to mislead, confuse and confound the masses to get them to vote for this same party that has turned Nigeria into the hell of a place that it is today.

No plan to sack workers in Osun – APC