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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Peoples Democratic 
Party, PDP, in Ondo State and the Mimiko-led government were yesterday, 
engaged in a verbal war over the financial status of the state.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While PDP claimed that 
the state was broke and could not pay workers salaries, and other 
obligations to its workers, the state government dismissed the 
allegation, describing it as a “wicked propaganda and lack of initiative
 by PDP to remain visible.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, Chairman of the
 Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, in the state, Mrs. Bosede Daramola, 
maintained that the state did not owe workers salaries. She said March 
salaries were paid even before the Easter period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The party’s Director of 
Publicity, Ayo Fadaka, in a statement in Akure, said the government, in 
an attempt to shield the fact of its insolvency, had embarked on a 
subterfuge that it was trying to unmask the existence of ghost workers 
in its workforce.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to the 
statement, “the Mimiko administration has grossly mismanaged the 
finances of the state to the level that it can no longer fulfil its 
financial obligations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Specifically, primary 
school teachers are being owed salaries of over two months, while all 
the workers are currently being owed their March salaries.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, Secretary to 
the State Government, Dr. Olurotimi, challenged PDP to come out publicly
 with the identities of the workers being owed salaries, saying the 
allegation was “a deliberate act to misinform the public about the good 
tidings in the Sunshine State.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The opposition party is suffering from ignorance in the rudiments of governance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“They are just blabbing 
to keep themselves busy and give the people the impression that they 
still exist. No amount of blackmail will distract the government as 
intended by the opposition.”</span></div>

Xclusive: Ondo State Is Broke, Cannot Pay Workers’ Salaries – PDP

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State and the Mimiko-led government were yesterday, engaged in a verbal war over the financial s...