from the usual blackmail all aimed at distracting his government?

“This is not the first time idle hands would claim in the media that have petitioned against Aregbesola. It is all to score cheap political points.”

However, the Consultant to Osun State Government on Information, Mr. Sunday Akere, had said in an interview with our correspondent that the allegation that the governor diverted the bailout fund was baseless.

He said this in a reaction to the allegation by the Peoples Democratic Party that the governor diverted the fund.

Akere said the state government used the bailout for the purpose it was meant while challenging the opposition party to seek clarification from the workers.

He said, “The PDP in Osun does not merit any response. They issue releases just to let the people outthat dynamic. After all, here is a woman who wasn’t allowed to train as an Air Force pilot, so she applied to aviation officer candidate school in the Navy instead, then spent a year searching for a recruiter who was willing to process her application and had to break barriers within the military to become one of the Navy’s first female fighter pilots.

She’s been facing down those unjust, sexist stereotypes her entire adult life. Maybe she’s just the person to dispel them.

— Washington Post

Beverly Weintraub, who won a Pulitzer Prize as a member of the New York Daily News editorial board, is a member of the Ninety-Nines, International Organisation of Women Pilots, and the board of directors of the Air Race Classic.

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