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Aiyedatiwa’s N73,000 minimum wage desperate attempt to curry favour – PDP

In a statement issued by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity of the PDP Campaign Organisation, Ayo Fadaka, on Sunday, described the governor’s gesture as a mere Greek gift to cajole the workers to vote for him in the forthcoming poll.

The PDP also described Aiyedatiwa’s administration as a failure to the people of the state and was seeking ways to cajole the workers, saying he should have increased the workers’ salaries before the present time.

The statement read, “We notice with amusement Governor Aiyedatiwa’s decision to raise the minimum wage in Ondo State from the federal government approved N70,000 to a paltry N73,000. This is obviously a hollow pretense that is calculated to present him as a workers’ friendly Governor, an assumption which falls flat on his face when due cognisance is taken of his failure to do this increment many months back. The fact that he is just doing this now is a mere pretence.

“In a brazen display of desperation, this marginal wage increment serves as a flimsy attempt to curry favour with the electorate, masking his administration’s colossal failures across every critical sector. It is a move that reeks of calculated deceit, aimed not at alleviating the suffering of the people but at securing their votes through shallow tokenism.”

The statement argued that if Aiyedatiwa was a leader who genuinely cared about the welfare of his people, he would have since addressed the root causes of “Ondo State’s challenges—poverty, unemployment, and the decay of essential services.”