By Michael Ofulue, Osogbo

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The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has tasked the state Governor Ademola Adeleke to tender an unreserved  apology to the  pensioners in the state for disappointing them in his campaign promise to pay up the backlog of their contributory pensions within six months of his assumption of office

However ,Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has  released a total bond certificates worth #2.1billion to retirees, under contributory pension scheme, at the State and local government levels.

The Governor had last   month released half a billion naira to 734 pensioners who are retirees under the old pension scheme,  Local Government Staff and Primary School teachers.

This was contained in Statement by the  State Head of Service, Mr Ayanleye Aina which was made available to newsmen in Osogbo.

Aina clarified that the beneficiaries of the bond certificates are: retired staff of Local Government Areas, LCDAs, Area Councils,MDAs, Secondary Schools, tertiary institutions as well as parastatals.

According to the state chairman of the party, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, the state capital today, it will now dawn on the state  pensioners and the civil servants that the Adeleke-led government is fraught with deceit in the execution of its campaign promises.

The Osun State chairman of the APC hinted that the information about the  mere approval for the payment of the N2.1bn CPS bond for the retirees showed that the Adeleke administration is lacking in the sincerity of purpose as the so-called pension bond would be the second time of such in about nine months in the life of the PDP administration in the state.

Lawal queried that if Adeleke does not have anything to hide, he should separate the figures his government is allocating to the primary school teachers, to the civil servants, retired employees in the parastatals, secondary school teachers who retired on CPS.

The state APC chairman who stated that the primary schools and local government workers are to be catered for by the local government disclosed that Adeleke is not announcing the amount allocated to each of the segments of the retired workforce because the administration has something to hide.