Unpaid Salaries: APC Indicts Jonathan

The All Progressives Congress has accused former president, Goodluck Jonathan of playing a big part in the backlog of unpaid salaries and outcry of state governors on inheriting empty treasuries in their states.
According to the party, the alleged massive looting of the nation’s fund by the Jonathan’s administration is the reason behind the current unpaid salaries crisis, The Punch reports.
This was disclosed in a statement by the director of publicity, Research and Strategy of
the APC in Osun state, Kunle Oyatomi, on Wednesday, July 1.
Oyatomi described the PDP administration as the worst in terms of corruption in the Africa continent, saying their stealing of public fund was unequalled.
The statement reads: “The leadership of the PDP in Osun were recipients of the looted funds which would have been available to pay salaries if the PDP government of Goodluck Jonathan did not steal such humongous sums and wasted the nation’s resources in the most expensive party campaigns for retaining political power that has never been seen in the Continent of Africa.
“From the NNPC alone, the PDP stole trillions of Naira. The ex-minister of finance spent billions of dollars without authorisation, not to talk of other agencies of the federal government which joined in the looting spree of Nigeria by the PDP.
“If all these monies the PDP had looted from the federal purse were equitably distributed to the 36 states of Nigeria and the FCT, no working staff anywhere in Nigeria will be owed a kobo in salaries today.”

The APC, aside blaming Jonathan for the unpaid salaries crisis, said the former president and his government also deducted federal allocations to states by mid-2013.
According to the party, this move by the ex-president further incapacitated states from paying their workers.
The ruling party said it was sad that the leaders of the PDP in Osun state were “mocking the workers whose plights were caused by the former PDP administration at the federal level.”
Meanwhile, Governor Aregbesola has explained to workers that efforts are being made to settle the March and April salaries of local government workers and primary school teachers in two days.