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The Accord Party (AP) in Oyo State has described as disgraceful and unacceptable, the call by governors especially the second-term governors for a Federal Government bail out to pay the backlog of salaries to workers in their states.
Accord, in a statement signed by the party’s Director of Public Communication, Dotun Oyelade, stressed that if President Muhammadu Buhari should accede to their demand at all, consideration should only be given to governors who have just assumed duties and not second term governors.
According to the party, inspite of glaring evidences that salaries could not be paid, some returnee governors were still awarding contracts as it was the only way they could get kick backs.
The party cited Oyo state government as an example that has just announced plans to award contracts to build silos (agricultural products warehouses) in each of the senatorial districts, when existing silos in Ibadan,Saki, Ayete and Iseyin were moribund and empty.