Donald Ojogo, commissioner for information in Ondo state, has described as a display of ignorance, the declaration by the PDP in the state, that the new government house project by Governor Akeredolu is a waste of money.
Ojogo in his reaction to the press conference by the PDP on Thursday, said the state government desire to build a new government house, as nothing to do with the payment of salaries.
He said the PDP’s stand on the new building is uncanny, and should not have come from a party that left, government with salaries owed to the tune of seven months.
Read full statement below:
New Governor’s Lodge & PDP’s Rough Path
The statement supposedly made by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in respect of the proposed Governor’s Lodge did not come as a surprise to the Ondo State Government.
Among others, the position of the opposition party had thrived at an inclement path of a fruitless incitement as it incredulously, suggested that Ondo State does not need a befitting Governor’s Lodge.
It is a conceded fact that an opposition party is at liberty to criticise any Government including of course, the indiscretional display of ignorance on issues of governance.
The misplaced allusion to the Governor’s Lodge as well as the weak nexus between same and the issue of salaries betrays an unpardonable amnesia on the part of a political party. It becomes immeasurably uncanny if such party had left the stage with the most uncharitable legacy of ‘unpaid seven months salaries ‘.
Perhaps, PDP deserves to know that the envisioned Governor’s Lodge is among the plethora of iconic projects targeted with the yet-to-be-fully accessed BOND.
Suggesting therefore, that Government should ‘shelve’ the project for salaries clearly shows a gross lack of knowledge of how Bonds work. They are, as Special Purpose means of funding developmental initiatives, inconvertible to cash, hence undrawable by anyone.
Rather than abandon the welfare of workers for months without remorse under any guise, the Ondo State Government led by Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN shall, at all times, evolve ingenious means to address the issue of salaries in the face of excruciating global economic challenges.
Signed
Donald Ojogo
Commissioner for Information and Orientation
Ondo State
June 10, 2021
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