THE All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State has described Governor Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola ‘the most consistently people-oriented leader, the state has ever known since it was created some 26 years ago.

‘Every project he had designed, and decision he had taken, (even when critics pilloried him for them), were conceived to improve the quality of life of the people and develop the economy of the state’.

These claims were made yesterday, by the Directorate of Publicity, Research and Strategy of the APC in a statement signed by its director, Kunle Oyatomi, and made available to the media in Osogbo.

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According to APC, ”It takes only a person consumed by hate or totally misinformed to viciously criticise the governor’s policies and projects as the case has been since he assumed office in 2010.

‘One of the most topical of these tragic attempts to undermine Aregbesola and the APC government he leads, is the issue of salary.

‘This tragedy, which is national, has been made to look as if Osun was the only one in default.

‘But the truth of the matter is that of all the states that were affected, Osun has the best plan in the circumstance to manage the crisis.

‘Even in that process, his vicious critics gave the impression, and continue to mislead the public that Aregbesola is only paying half salaries to all workers and has refused to pay pensioners.

‘However, what this populist governor did was to make a rational deal with labour leaders in the state as to how resources available to the government could be best used to pay salaries and pension.”