Since the stunning electoral defeat of Ekiti governor,
Kayode Fayemi, in the governorship poll two weeks ago,
one incumbent governor who several pundits have
mentioned as being at risk of a similar defeat next year is
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state.
One of Fayemi’s shortcomings according to Ekiti voters
was his testy relationship with the state’s civil servants
who felt that the governor did not give them their due. That
same accusation is being thrown at gov. Amosun in Ogun,
and just two weeks after Fayemi’s loss, it seems Amosun is
working hard to warm his way into the hearts of the state’s
workers.
Check out the promises the governor has made just in the
last two weeks:
- Housing loans
- Car loans
- Employment of children of civil servants
- Payment of 13th month salary and
- Directive that all those employed by the administration of
his predecessor Gbenga Daniel, whose appointments were
terminated by his administration in 2011, should be
reabsorbed.
To top it up, just yesterday, Gov. Amosun met with
the leaders of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) of
the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital
(OOUTH), Sagamu, and reached an agreement with them
on their six-point demand so that their three-month-old
strike can be called off.
As the governor personally read the resolutions reached
with the union, the health workers were excited about the
kind of concessions the governor gave them.
He mandated the board of the institution to urgently
forward names of staff due for promotion for approval; he
agreed to backdate payment of alleged 17 months
Consolidated Health Salary Scale (CONHES) and 13
months arrears of Consolidated Tertiary Institution Salary
Scale (CONTISS) to February 2011; and he agreed to pay
the striking workers six months full salary beginning from
July 2014.
He therefore called on them to call off the strike action.
“I mean well for our people. I don’t have any life again,
everything is for my people. I will rather be a statesman
than a good politician. What we are doing today is to boost
your morale and assure you that we are on the same page
in the development of Ogun and health sector.
“You all agree with me that we have not owed you a dime
since we came on board. Though, we did not plan for the
payment of arrears based on the agreement you had with
the last administration, but in the spirit of oneness, we will
pay N50m from July for the next six months out of the
backlog,” Amosun said.
The Union Chairman, OOUTH Chapter, Comrade (Mrs)
Kikelomo Enaholo thanked the governor for being
magnanimous in his response, promising that, the union
would not renege in giving its best for the government.
On his part, the JOHESU State Chairman, Olakanmi
Abiodun, while commending the governor for his
flexibility and statesmanship, said that when the union
meets, “reason will prevail.”
Even opponents of Gov. Amosun have noted his sudden
shift. Chief among the governor’s opponents is the Labour
Party in the state which has as state leader, Otunba Gbenga
Daniel. Daniel, who just like Ayo Fayose in Ekiti, became
governor in 2003, defeating the then-incumbent governor
in the state, Segun Osoba, is one of those leading the
charge to oust Amosun from the Ogun Government House
in 2015.
The Labour Party released a statement through its publicity
secretary, Deji Kalejaiye, in which it described Gov.
Amosun’s renewed relationship with the workers as
“pathetic, most unfortunate and laughable.” The party
claimed that it was funny that it took the loss of Gov.
Fayemi in Ekiti to drive Gov Amosun to make “such
desperate concessions.”
According to the LP, the move by Gov. Amosun is a
desperate attempt to hoodwink the workers as the 2015
election is fast approaching since “the construction of
roads that leads nowhere, unnecessary flyovers and totally
irrelevant pedestrian bridge have been rejected by the
pedestrians themselves because of its meaninglessness.”
The party urged the people of Ogun not to fall for “this
deceit of a governor who has demonstrated his capacity as
a pathological liar over the years.”


SOURCE: www.thescoopng.com/gov-amosun-seems-learnt-gov-fayemis-loss-even-opponents-noticed/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

According to the LP, the move by Gov. Amosun is a desperate attempt to hoodwink the workers as the 2015 election is fast approaching since “the construction of roads that leads nowhere, unnecessary flyovers and totally irrelevant pedestrian bridge have been rejected by the pedestrians themselves because of its meaninglessness.”

. Is there any development that is unnecessary?? I see, LP do not plan on "infrastructure development" only stomach development just like Fayose of Ekiti! Ogun state be wise!