Ekiti 2022: Kolawole assures workers, pensioners of adequate welfare

Otunba Bisi Kolawole

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Hon. Bisi Kolawole, has assured workers and pensioners of adequate welfare if elected as the governor of the state.

Kolawole made the vow while addressing labour leaders and pensioners in two separate meetings in Ado Ekiti, the state capital on Wednesday.

The Ekiti State governorship election has been slated for June 18, 2022.

The PDP gubernatorial candidate, who said payment of workers’ salary should not be paraded as an achievement of any government, berated the Governor Kayode Fayemi-led All Progressives Congress administration in the state for non-remittance of seven months deductions from workers’ salary, saying “any government that is paying workers salary without paying deductions is only paying less than 40 percent of its wage bill”.

He further promised that his government would not only pay the salary of workers but all deductions at the appropriate time.

Kolawole, who presented his six-point agenda to the workers union leaders emphasized on security of lives and properties as important to economic growth of the state.

“It is only in a secured environment that economic activities can thrive and the situation in the state is such that people are even afraid to go to farm now for fear of armed bandits,” he stated.

While addressing the pensioners, the PDP governorship candidate assured that everything possible would be done to offset the arrears of pension and gratuity in the State.

He added that it was unacceptable for people who served the state meritoriously to be denied their entitlements.

Kolawole was accompanied to the meetings by former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose; ex-deputy governor; Dr Sikiru Tae Lawal; former PDP South-West Zonal Chairman, Chief Makanjuola Ogundipe; among others.

The Star