Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State yesterday advised Governor Rauf Aregbesola to suspend plans to create additional 36 new Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, in the state.
In a statement issued in Osogbo by Director of Media and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi, the party said “the reality in Osun calls for serious planning because economy of the state now or even in the near future, cannot cope with bogus 36 local government areas when it could not generate fund to develop the present 30 council areas including an Area Office.”[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”70560″]
The state’s Assembly at the twilight of its tenure passed a bill establishing 36 additional local councils after considering the outcome of a referendum conducted by Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, OSSIEC.
The PDP said the rest of the country must be astonished about a governor “that has not been able to fulfill its financial obligations to the workforce and plunges the state’s economy into crisis, interestingly plans to create new councils to make Osun the only state in Nigeria to have 66 council areas.”
The PDP said Aregbesola, rather than consider the peculiar needs of Osun and its financial capacity, had been implementing wholesale all programmes of Lagos State, which it described as counterproductive.
“Copying Lagos notes is affecting Osun negatively. Buying helicopter, creating LCDAs, planting flowers are all Lagos ideas,” the PDP said.
It then advised Aregbesola to call stakeholders meeting that will involve all parties where issues affecting the state can be discussed and solutions proffered to them.(NATIONAL MIRROW)
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