A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Unity Party of Nigeria in Osun State, Mr. Segun Akinwusi, has raised the alarm over the rising debt profile of the state.
Akinwusi, a former Head of Service in the state, said this on Wednesday at a press conference in Osogbo.
He said, “The present administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has borrowed about N350bn from various financial institutions since November 2010.”
According to him, the people of the state are still being denied dividends of democracy, despite the huge debt the administration has plunged the state into.
Akinwusi, who served as the HoS during the administartions of former governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Aregbesola, said the Peoples Democratic Party and the ruling All Progressives Congress had failed the people of the state, saying the UPN remained the only hope of liberation for the people.
Akinwusi alleged that the APC was scared of the popularity of the UPN, thus making the ruling party to have planned to disrupt its activities.
While lamenting that the APC was planning to prevent the UPN from salvaging the masses of the state and Nigeria from bad governance, he said the APC had used all means to prevent the party from being registered, but its plans failed.
He said the APC believed that the UPN would be welcomed by the people of the South West “hence their determination to destroy the newly registered party through various spurious allegations against our leaders.”
Efforts to speak with the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Sunday Akere, proved abortive as calls put across to his phone were not answered and text message sent to him were also not responded to as at the time of filing this report.
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