Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, over the weekend, attributed the negative focus on the state by a section of the media over unpaid salary to the roles he and the state played in defeating the PDP-led Federal Government in the March-April 2015 general election.
He stated this at Ipetumodu during a reception in honour of the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr Femi Adesina.
Aregbesola said even though it was not only Osun State that was caught in the salary crisis, yet some disgruntled opposition elements orchestrated unnecessary media campaigns against the state due to the role its government played in contributing to their electoral failure at both state and national levels.
While describing the development as campaigns of hatred and bitterness, he observed that those who were sponsoring disparaging news on the state were doing it to retaliate against his government for the defeat suffered by their leaders, which led to eventual loss of power by the PDP.
According to Aregbesola, “every objective-minded Nigerian should pause to ask the pertinent question: Is Osun the only state which owed workers’ salary? The apparent answer is ‘No’. More than 22 states found themselves in this crisis.
“The reason Osun is always in the news is not far to seek. I make bold to say that some individuals in the state are deliberately sponsoring hate campaigns against the state because of my government’s role in the ‘Project Change’ that led to the downfall of their party during the general election.
Aregbesola, however, described the appointment of Adesina as one of the outcomes of change reaped by Osun, stressing that “Femi Adesina became the spokesperson of President Buhari on merit.
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