THE Oyo State Commissioner for Finance, Mr Zachaeus Adedeji, has said that opposition politicians in the state are only politicising the issues of workers’ salaries and pension of retired primary school teachers in their bid to discredit the Senator Abiola Ajimobi administration against the forthcoming general election. Adedeji, while featuring on a programme on a private radio station in Ibadan, on Tuesday, also dismissed media reports by the Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Jumoke Akinjide, that the state government had collected the $200 million allegedly facilitated by the Federal Government. Other issues also addressed by the commissioner included rumoured tax increase by the administration, alleged capital flight, the N6.5 billion stolen by some officials of the Local Government Pension Board, budget performance as well as the financial engineering being applied by Governor Ajimobi, among others.
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