Ilori congratulates Ondo at 40, challenges Mimiko on bailout fund

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Special Adviser to the Governor of Osun on Environment and Sanitation Matters, Bola Ilori, has joined other well meaning Ondo State indigenes to congratulate the Sunshine State as she marks her 40th year of existence.
In a statement through his media office, Ilori said Ondo people can celebrate for living as one peaceful entity since the state was created by the late General Murtala Muhammed on February 3, 1976.
“It is, however, regrettable that despite its huge mineral and human resources, Ondo State is now competing with less endowed landlocked states like Ekiti and Osun for the title of highest salary debtor in the South-West?
“As of today, the oil producing and derivation collecting Ondo State owes more outstanding salaries, pension and deductions than any other state in the South-West” Ilori said.
While calling for more openness in governance, Ilori lamented that “insincerity has eaten so deep into the governance ethos of the current band in Ondo State Government House that shame could not allow them reveal the real debt profile of the state. When other states declared their true debt and got bailout which was subsequently paid to their workers, Ondo State government chose to lie about the real debt profile and its now reaping the profane fruit of deceit as the bailout fund was consequentially sank by Access Bank because of huge undisclosed outstanding debt.
”I challenge the government to publish how it shared the N20 billion bailout fund it got from the APC-led Federal Government in October, 2015. Nobody has received any salary or pension bank alert in Ondo State since October 2015 till date.” Ilori submitted.
The former student leader, who admonished the residents to embrace the wind of change blowing across the country, believes there are better days ahead for the state.
He urged the people to remember the saying that ‘a fool at 40, is a fool forever’.
“The people must take charge and rescue the state from the present rudderless PDP led government. No more foolery in Ondo, change cometh!”, Ilori concluded.