AD gov’ship aspirant promises prompt salary, pension

Osun state governorship aspirant under Alliance for Democracy (AD), Olugbenga Fakunle, has promised prompt payment of workers’ salaries and pensions if elected governor in September 22 this year. Fakule made the promise while declaring his intention to contest the governorship election at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) council in Osogbo at the weekend. According to the AD aspirant, reliance on federal allocation has in no small way affected progress of the state, saying he would contribute to the growth of the state with less reliance on federal allocation. He also promised to revitalise the economy of the state with entrepreneurship, education and health care, maintaining that training of youths in various acquisition programmes would be employed by his administration for gainful employment. He condemned the state of education and health in Osun, saying building of schools without teachers and health centers without equipment, would end. In his remark, the state chairman of the party, Olapade Fakunle, said the state secretariat, Abere, built by the AD governor during the administration of Chief Bisi Akande, would be reclaimed. He boasted that the achievement of AD governor in the state has remained the best in the history of the state since creation. The party chairman noted that the achievement of AD between 1999 and 2003 was a testimony that only the party could take the state to its promised land.