HE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has decried what it described as the “non-payment of the July salary of local government workers and teachers by the Ekiti State government.”

The PDP, in a statement made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday said “it is wicked to deny workers their wages.”

In the statement by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, the party noted that “the action by the Kayode Fayemi-led administration has vindicated its stance that the APC administration lacked human feelings.”

According to him, “the delay in the payment of the workers’ salaries is a deliberate action aimed at punishing the workers for not voting for Fayemi in the June 21 governorship election,” saying “Fayemi has decided to punish those he perceived did not vote for him in the election, among whom were local government workers and teachers. Fayemi should let the people of the state know what is delaying the payment of the salaries of these people.”

But the state government in a reaction blamed the PDP for the delay in the payment of July salary of local government workers. 

The state Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mr Tayo Ekundayo, said: “We have paid all the civil servants except the local government workers. We have never owed workers salary despite paucity of fund. This thing happened because of the meddling of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the affairs of the state.”

Ekundayo, who reacted through the telephone, pointed out that “we used to obtain facilities from banks to settle salary in the past pending when we will receive allocation, but the PDP advised banks not to deal with us.

“The banks thereby became circumspect in dealing with us. The meddling is not in the interest of the state, otherwise we would have paid all the workers. It is the PDP that should be blamed.”.

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Op, your thread heading does not reflect the story, the story says apc government in ekiti has refused to pay workers salaries and pdp is fighting for the right of these workers so that they can get their money. Op,you dey sleep abi you don smoke ?

Their salary was being use for cooking jollof rice durring the votiing out of APC.