The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has linked the delay in payment of salaries and pension to mismanagement of the national economy by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Federal Government.
The party blamed the Goodluck Jonathan administration for wasting national resources in its “desperate bid to return to power”.
At the party secretariat in Osogbo, the state capital, the Chairman, Gboyega Famodun, said since the drop in the oil revenue and various wastages of the PDP, the federal allocation accruing to the state has drastically reduced.
Famodun said the highest statutory allocation to Osun State was N5.5 billion in February 2013 but has now dropped to N466 million in April.
He said: “As at the time the APC came on board in November 2010, workers’ emolument was N1.4 billion but today it is N3.6 billion, following the increase in minimum wage in 2012.
“And the truth is that Osun is not the only state affected by delay in workers’ salaries. About 23 states have similar problems. Before this crisis, workers were paid before the 25th of every month.”
But the PDP spokesperson, Prince Diran Odeyemi, in a statement, said: “It is shameful that APC is concocting lies to cover profligacy, gross financial mismanagement, ineptitude, corrupt and inflated contract award processes.”