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By Ismail Abdulganiyu
As it is the norms for Adebayo Adedeji, he is trying to sell a faulty narrative on the contentious shutdown of Osun job centre in the state. Although, I’m not too surprised by this tendency exhibited by Adedeji because that is what is well known for, especially when it is to whitewash the undeniable failings of the immediate past administration in the state, which he was a partaker.
Make no mistake, Adedeji is not interested in the operation of the job centre or otherwise. What actually motivates his writing is the rush to cover up for the noticeable wrong actions of his paymaster. It is a pattern that he has consistently demonstrated overtime that puts his sense of objectivity to serious question.
And he demonstrated this ignoble trait to an extent in the mischievous attempt to manipulate thoughts on the shutting down of the Osun job centre. One would have expected Adedeji to at least pretend to be somewhat different from the general impression about him, but a pig will always be a pig.
In a vainglorious attempt to exonerate his Principal, Gboyega Oyetola, from the fate suffered by the Osun job centre, Adedeji defied logic on its head by quoting personnel cost for the Ministry of Ministry of Human Resources and Capacity Building to drive his weak narrative that the Osun job centre was maintained by Oyetola throughout his four years in office. Adedeji may be to convince undiscerning APC members with that flawed narrative, but the truth is quite the opposite.
Personnel cost of an entire Ministry cannot in all honesty, explained whether an agency was actually maintained as Adedeji tried to portray. Unless he is saying the Ministry of Human Resources and Capacity Building was only about Osun job centre, which will be erroneous and misleading.
It is an open secret to the whole world that the Osun job centre was converted to an annexure of the Ministry of Information, which housed the then Special Adviser to Oyetola on Civic Engagement, Mr. Bosun Oyintiloye. At a point, it was turned to a political office and a lot of activities for the re-election bid of Oyetola was ran at the complex.
So, the question that Adedeji failed to answer was how the Osun job centre was able to function alongside the Civic Engagement and political activities at the same time? What is not in doubt in all of these is that, Adedeji is not being sincere, because every available facts point to one incontrovertible conclusion, the Oyetola administration drain life out of the Osun job centre.
For emphasis, nothing was heard about the Osun job centre for the entire four years that Oyetola was in office. This was obvious from the lame position of Adedeji, who was unable to reference any activity by the agency under Oyetola nor the job that was generated through it for four years. There was nothing because the agency was not existing except for the signpost at the rented facility.
Therefore, it is a fallacy to say the Adeleke administration shutdown what do not exist, not to talk of owing a fictitious 13-month salary. Anyone who follows event in Osun since Governor Ademola Adeleke took office will find the narrative of owing workers salary laughable going by the amount of interest that the administration has given to workers welfare.
Aside the regular payment of salary, the Adeleke administration is paying the half salary owed by the APC administration. So far, the Adeleke administration has paid four out of the 30-month half salary owed by the previous administration while over N26bn has been used for the payment of inherited pension liabilities. That clearly negates the wrong notion that Adedeji tried to advance.
For a fact, no employee of the Osun State Government is being owed whatsoever aside what the APC administration may have owed them. And if Adedeji is saying otherwise, he should provide information of those who are owed to prove his point. He must be mistaken to think the Adeleke administration will continue the path of using meagre Osun resources to service APC members under the guise of adhoc engagement.
Ismail Abdulganiyu is from Ward 9, Erin Osun, Irepodun Local Government
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