ABEOKUTA – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun state has chided the incumbent governor, Dapo Abiodun for personalising public institutions that are meant to service the common good of the state.
The PDP Publicity Secretary, Asiwaju Akinloye Bankole in a statement made available to The News Ville stated that public institutions belongs to all and sundry and should not be cornered by a section of the society.
“The unending appetite of Prince Dapo Abiodun in reducing the core values of governance and public Institutions that are statutorily meant to service the common good of the people of Ogun state has become so alarming.
“Especially in the face of his flagrant disregard for public decency as Prince Dapo Abiodun has completely turned public Institutions of government to an arm of his private enterprise used to advance and promote his very own personal political agenda.
“It would be recalled that not too long ago, Ogun state tax payer funds were recklessly deployed on the instructions of Mr Governor to members of his wrecked ship, the APC with the unregulated appointment of 10 people (members of the APC) per polling unit (across the state) for inclusion into the State Social Investment Benefits Scheme being launched by the state government.
“While on that perfidious and undemocratic voyage of self preservation, Mr. Governor has thrown caution into the winds with all sorts of manipulation, conspiracy and immoral collaboration with the leadership of the sinking APC to weaponize government institutions against any one who does not belong to the APC in Ogun state.
“This can not and should not be the immediate priority of any reasonable government whose workforce and retirees are still being owed as at this moment.
“For us in PDP, Social Intervention Schemes should not be politicized against a section of public; it should serve as a socio-economic platform for delibrate enhancement and empowerment of the people who have suffered all manners of socioeconomic agonies and unpardonable incompetence from the ruling APC government both at the national and state levels.
“As if that is not terrible enough, the attitude of the Dapo Abiodun government is still manifestly on display with the use of public media organizations such as the Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation, OGBC and Ogun State Television, OGTV as his and other candidates of the APC exclusive right to public airing; preventing access and media coverage for other political parties in the state as the 2023 electoral process builds up. This is simply the height of disservice to the good people of the state who deserve the right to information dissemination without rancour.
“We would not mince words in reminding the governor and of course, his rudderless APC that there is no amount of intimidation and emasculation that is strong enough to safe him from defeat at the polls.
“The good people of Ogun state have continuously expressed, in a most clear way, their unstoppable readiness to take their destiny in their own hands ; to change their cause of experience by voting Hon. (Dr.) Oladipupo Adebutu and other candidates of our great party, the PDP in the forthcoming elections.
“The governor is at the liberty to convert the whole structure of democratic governance and its institutions to personal use, the good people of Ogun state would not reward his brazen desperation and greed with a reelection at the polls.
“Again, being a responsible political organization, the PDP would continue assist the government by reminding the governor that upon all the noise rented the entire space few months ago about completing and commissioning of the cargo Airport at Iperu, the project is no where near completion. We hope the monies meant for it have not found its ways to private vaults. We do not want it abandoned to rot away like several others before it”, the statement reads
