By Gbenga Olarinoye

Former Interim National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Adebisi Akande has advised striking doctors, lecturers and other labour unions in Osun State to be wary of their agitations, saying the economy of the state cannot meet all the demands of the civil servants.

Chief Akande said this while fielding questions from newsmen at his country home, Ila-Orangun during his 77th birthday celebration.

The former governor of the state between 1999 and 2003, cautioned the striking workers to be careful of their demands and agitation, saying “When the economy is too weak to sustain Osun, the governor will go away, the commissioners will go away, all the civil servants will go away, all the doctors will go away, everybody will go away because there will be nothing to sit by anymore.”

Akande pointed out that the current economic crisis in the state was not the making of the governor but that of the crash in oil prices.
His words: “Though I live in Osun, I will say I don’t know much as to the making of the government but I see a lot of boldness in the plan of the present government about Osun, the plan is bold and commendable and if fully implemented can turn Osun into an Eldorado.”