The All Progressives Congress has alleged that massive corruption during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan was the reason some states cannot pay workers’ salaries.
APC Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy of APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, in a statement on Wednesday, described the PDP administration as the worst in terms of corruption in Africa.
He noted that “The leadership of the PDP in Osun were recipients of the looted funds which would have been available to pay salaries if the PDP government of Goodluck Jonathan did not steal such humongous sums and wasted the nation’s resources in the most expensive party campaigns for retaining political power that has never been seen in the Continent of Africa.
“From the NNPC alone, the PDP stole trillions of Naira. The ex-minister of finance spent billions of dollars without authorisation, not to talk of other agencies of the federal government which joined in the looting spree of Nigeria by the PDP.
“If all these monies the PDP had looted from the federal purse were equitably distributed to the 36 states of Nigeria and the FCT, no working staff anywhere in Nigeria will be owed a kobo in salaries today.”
Continuing, the ruling party said apart from the alleged massive stealing of the nation’s resources, the former administration also started deducting federal allocations to states by mid 2013, which further incapacitated states from paying their workers.
APC added said it was sad that the leaders of the PDP in Osun State were now mocking the workers whose plights were caused by the former PDP administration at the federal level.
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