Aregbesola resumes duties, says no worker’ll be vilified Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday resumed duties after observing break from official engagements since his reelection on August 9. However, Osun workforce literally “laid ambush” for the governor, as he entered the Bola Ige House in Abere, where they welcomed him to office. Commenting on the action of the workers, state Trade Union Congress, TUC, chairman, Comrade Francis Adetunji, said the gathering was a demonstration of their love for Governor Aregbesola. His Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, counterpart, Comrade Saka Adesiyan, said the “workers trooped out as a demonstration of natural support for our governor. This is just to show that we are unrelenting in our support for this man who has done so many good things for us – workers – of Osun.” State Head of Service, Mr. Sunday Owoeye, said the occasion was unprecedented, adding that no governor has ever been welcomed to office by workers. “It shows that for every action, there is reaction. This is a show of workers’ reaction to the numerous good things that Osun workers have enjoyed under your administration, he added.” Thanking the workers for standing by him during the election, Governor Aregbesola recalled how efforts were allegedly made by the opposition to fraudulently win the election, saying: “They tried everything within their powers. They officially deployed 73,000 security men to our state. That is minus the over 20 thousand impersonators in DSS uniform. “They even have the guts to attempt entrance into my official residence on August 9, led by the ‘election AIG’, Police Commissioner, and the one in charge of the Army. They claimed that they got intelligence that election rigging was underway in Government House. They tried but they met the right resistance.” Aregbesola denied the rumour that there would be backlash on some workers who brazenly joined opposition’s machinations to take over government, saying: “I say it here openly that we will not carry out any reprisal on any worker for not voting for us in the last election.” He said it is the right of any Nigerian to support anybody through the ballot; including workers, but explained that it is however criminal for any civil servant, who pledged allegiance to the service, to go all out to openly express support for the opposition party on election day. He said: “Any worker who went partisan during the last election should please desist. Though we know some of them, we will not take any step against them but we plead with them to repent and let’s build our state together. What happened last August 9 was God’s doing. And we are sure that whoever tries to cross God’s path will fail woefully.”
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:09:53 +0000
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