The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun state, on Thursday, appealed to the federal ruling party the All Progressives Congress APC to stop withholding the state allocations, saying the development has crippled new teachers recruitment among several other projects execution in the state.

Honourable Oladele Olabamiji, Director of Media and Publicity of the party, who made the appeal in a statement in Osogbo, maintained that, it was the failure of the federal government in releasing the State allocation, that has caused delayed in teachers’ recruitment

Reacting to the APC statement on recent deployment of Ad-hoc teachers, PDP said the state government was on the verge of releasing employment letters to teachers when the Federal Government stopped Osun local government allocations in contravention of subsisting court judgments.

According to the PDP, the Federal Government withheld Osun local government allocations as a failed ploy to stop the various developmental projects being executed by the current administration, warning that teachers recruitment was one of the targeted area by the APC alongside the many ongoing mega projects.

The party defended deployment of Ad-hoc teachers after their training, calling the steps a stop-gap measure before the employment of new teachers.

“The deployed Ad-hoc teachers were trained and they work under the supervision of older teachers. APC should release Osun allocation being withheld illegally so that the state government can fulfil its obligations to Osun people.

“We are using this medium to report to Osun people that APC is hell-bent on stopping Osun development. The PDP government will not allow them. Osun must develop whether APC like it or not. Osun must escape cycle of under-development

“Osun people will vote PDP and defend their votes next year August,” the PDP statement concluded. (Nigerian Tribune)