Hon Razaq Olubodun .Former Personal Assistant to the Communications Minister Barrister Adebayo Shittu has said his former principal is not sincere with his claims over the unpaid Salary and allowances
Apparently reacting to a statement credited to the minister, Barrister Abdul-Raheem Adebayo Shittu over the unpaid salary and allowances that he was not owing his former aide, Olubodun said for 23 months, he did not receive salary.
The minister while featuring on a radio programme in Ibadan last Friday, said the aide’s salary was N42,000 and not N420,000 as claimed.
According to him, the minister is not being smark mischief and insincerity but misrepresentation of fact.
It would be recalled that Olubodun worked with Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi when he was in the Senate as Personal Assistant and Special Adviser during his first term in office for four years.
He described the scenario as snark off weakedness, inhuman, unGodliness and heartlessness.
“Initially, I have decided not join issues with the minister in the media out of respect for some important and influential people and respect for the exalted office of the Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“However, since the minister has decided to dance in the market square by making that statement, probably for image laundering and damage control, I have no choice than to join issues with him on the media at least for the purpose of clarification and putting the record straight before the people of Oyo State which we put represent and Nigerians in general,” he said.
The former aide raised six issues for determination without controversy. These include whether the minister did not pay his salary and allowances from November 2015 to October 2017 or not.
Other were whether his salary and allowances were not appropriated along with that of the minister by the National Assembly for onward payment to him as Personal Assistant and where is the minister keeping the money for the period among others.
Olubodun added that these were the questions the minister would have to answer before a successful “image laundering” and “damage control could be achieved in this “salary scandal”.
He advised the minister to stop embarrassing the people of Oyo State who are very intelligent and politically sophisticated.
He warned that no amount of media statement and postage on social media would solve the problem if “salary scandal”.
Olubodun said “it can only escalate it and make it to be more relevant in public domain and discussion.”
