'ICPC Report Has Vindicated Us on Aregbesola's Squandermania"- PDP

The Osun State chapter of the People's Democratic Party, PDP said it has been vindicated by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission's (ICPC) recent report which categorically indicted the state Governor Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola forsquandering the N34.9 billion FG Bailout Funds.

This was contained In a statement signed by the Director of Media and Strategy Prince Diran Odeyemi on Saturday.


According to Prince Odeyemi "ICPC had confirmed that Osun state governor got bail out cash from the federal government for the settlement of arrears of workers’ salaries and emoluments but diverted the funds for other purposes, thereby defeating the purpose of the government’seffort to provide succor for the workers."

"When we cried out that our governor had fixed the bailout, they called us liars, when we alerted that part of the fund was later used to pay a powerful contractor now in Buhari's government, they denied it, what will the government say now that an independent government agency (ICPC) has confirmed and corroborated out claims, indeed, we have been vindicated"

PDP said further that "a comprehensive analysis carried out by the ICPC, in conjunction with the Nigeria Labour Congress, had revealed that Osun is among the states that deliberately lied that they were owing their workers huge debts when the reverse was the case but still did not pay their workers when the money was released to them by the Federal Government".

Allegedly quoting ICPC, PDP said  "Osun State received N34.988.990.000.00 as bailout fund and disbursed N18.677.224.582.20, leaving a balance of N16.311,765.418 billion as at November. 2015"

The party therefore called on the Commission to wade into Government's recent propaganda towards verifying allegations that Osun State public servants had been paid salaries up to Jan 2016.

"We are aware that Osun state workers have not been receiving full salaries since  July 2015 and even at that, the state government is owing them four months salary"

The party however commended the state NLC for debunking Aregbesola's claim and propaganda that he is not owing them while urging the workers to remain steadfast and united in their demand for the wages of their labour.