The candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the coming governorship election in Osun State, Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji (AMBO), has said the architect of half-salary the state is now serving under the government of Governor Ademola Adeleke.
The Nation recalled that Adeleke had berated the APC candidate that presenting him as youth-friendly is a mockery because he was an architect of half salary, hence he should seek forgiveness.
Reacting to the development, Oyebamiji, through AMBO Media Front, through its coordinator, Adebayo Adedeji, denied plotting a half-salary scheme during the administration of Rauf Aregbesola, saying he assumed office as Finance Commissioner in May 2017, while half salary started in June 2015.
According to him, “Let it be stated clearly and emphatically that Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji was not part of the half-salary experiment. Historical facts do not lie. The modulated salary regime commenced in June 2015, whereas Oyebamiji was appointed Commissioner for Finance in May 2017 — a clear 23 months apart.
“How then does one become an “architect” of a policy that was already in force nearly two years before his appointment? Only a spokesman who has made falsehood a profession could advance such an illogical claim.”
He noted that “More instructively, just a few months after Oyebamiji assumed office as Commissioner for Finance, the half-salary regime was discontinued and Osun civil servants began to receive their full salaries, despite the acute paucity of funds facing the state at the time. That achievement alone speaks volumes about his financial prudence, worker-friendly disposition, and capacity for humane economic management.”
Adedeji stressed, “For the avoidance of doubt, the real architect of the half-salary regime in Osun State is not AMBO. Ironically, the architect of half-salary in Osun is today the one advising Governor Adeleke on economic matters as his Chief Economic Adviser. It is therefore hypocritical and dishonest for the Adeleke government to attempt to hang the past failures of his chief economic adviser on AMBO.”
