BY GBENGA OLARINOYE
OSOGBO—THE Osun State government said yesterday that there were no plans by governor
Rauf Aregbesola to sack workers, if reelected, as being peddled in some quarters.

A Senior Special Assistant to the governor, Mr Olatunbosun Oyinloye, said this in Osogbo.
Oyinloye said that the speculation that Aregbessola would reduce the state’s labour force, if reelected, was the handiwork of the opposition.

The adviser said Aregbesola had made public that his second term in office would rather employ more workers than sack them.

Deputy governor’s brother defects
In another development, the electoral fortune of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, gubernatorial candidate in the June 21 governorship election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday received a boost as the elder brother of the state Deputy Governor, Mrs. Grace Laoye-Tomori, Mr. Sunday Laoye, led his supporters to defect to the PDP.

Decamping to the PDP, he called on other progressive minded politicians in the APC to leave the party and join the PDP.

Laoye, who was received into the PDP at the party’s secretariat in Osogbo by its National Secretary, Professor Wale Oladipo, said he laboured for the APC but had nothing to show for his commitment to the party.

Receiving Mr Laoye and his supporters, Professor Oladipo assured him of equal treatment in the party, saying “there is no preferential treatment in the party. We believe every member is important in the party.”