PDP Goes The CAN Way, Begs NEMA To Donate Foodstuffs, Materials To Osun Workers

Lol, after CAN begged meaningful Nigerians and Christians to
please donate food to Osun workers because of the non-payment of their salaries,
PDP has also used the opportunity to appeal to NEMA to also do the same by
providing food for Osun workers. They also begged their party members to try as
much as possible to bring foodstuffs to every secretariat of the party in the
State so that Osun workers can benefit from them. Lol, this political rivalry
has not ended oo, only election ended. But at this point, will you also advise
Governor Aregbesola like PDP earlier did to sell the State helicopter so he can
pay salaries? The story after the cut.

The Peoples Democratic Party has called on the National
Emergency Management Authority to donate relief materials, especially food, to
workers in Osun State because of the non-payment of their salaries for the past
seven months.

The Director of Media and Strategy of the PDP in Osun State,
Mr. Diran Odeyemi, made the appeal in a statement in Osogbo, the state capital,
on Thursday.

The party praised the Christian Association of Nigeria for
rallying support for the workers but that the mobilisation of aid for the state
workers could not be left for CAN alone to bear.

The PDP also directed its members to begin to bring
foodstuff to the party’s secretariats in all the local government areas in the
state for onward distribution to the workers.

It said, “The situation in the state requires much more than
what religious bodies can cope with. We are calling on the National Emergency
Management Authority, Red Cross Society and well- meaning Nigerians to come to
the aid of the workers in the state.

“The situation of unpaid salaries is so bad that many of
those in the employment of government have now resulted to begging to feed
their family while many have attempted to hang themselves.

“On Wednesday, a man slumped and died in broad daylight at
the popular Olaiya Junction, Osogbo, after begging for money to buy drug,
albeit unsuccessfully from the traders around and the passersby.

“The man openly shouted that his relatives that usually give
him money to buy drugs have not been paid salaries for months. The sad aspect
of the story is that the corpse was left at the spot where he foamed and bled
through the mouth for a day before his remains was evacuated.

“We also have it on good authority that many of these
helpless workers have been evicted from their rented apartment while many
others are said to be considering suicide.”

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