Babayemi assures workers, retirees payment of outstanding salaries, pensions if elected

The factional Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate for Osun State 2022 governorship election, Dotun Babayemi, has promised to pay all outstanding half-salary arrears owed workers if elected into office as governor of the state.

Besides, he equally gave the assurance that not only would backlog of pensions and gratuities be cleared, pensioners would heave a sigh of relief as they would be receiving their entitlements as and when due.

In a statement yesterday by his media office, the PDP governorship candidate assured that offsetting the outstanding arrears of salaries and pensions running into months were doable with proper financial re-engineering and discipline.

He bemoaned that Osun and its people do not have any reason to be poor or wallow in abject poverty, noting that God has blessed the state with men and resources, which could make it one of the most buoyant states in the country.

“By the grace of God, when I am voted into power and eventually assume office, the PDP administration under my watch shall clear all backlog of arrears of half salaries running into months as well as pensions and gratuities being owed our retirees. This is not an empty and rhetorical political promises, we shall do it,” he assured.

According to him, one of the surest ways of rejuvenating the state economy, which has gone bad, is by ensuring that the outstanding salaries of civil servants, as well as pensions and gratuities of retirees, are paid up so as to buoy up the economy of the state.

“It’s doable and achievable with proper financial re-engineering and discipline. This will lead to plugging leakages and preventing wastage. This, I promise, we shall achieve with strong will and determination,” he further said.

He implored civil servants and people of the state to continue to endure, emphasising: “My good people of Osun State, you are inches away from hardship. By July 16 when you vote the PDP in the state, then we will begin a new lease of life that would be for the betterment of all of us and to the admiration of the outside world.”

Meanwhile, Babayemi has stressed that agro-allied products and others related products would be massively engaged by his administration to shore up the state’s economy if given the mandate by the people of the state.

This, he added, would create thousands of jobs for indigenes of the state seeking employment and as well improve the living standard of the people.