As part of the effort to move Osun State out of its economic dwindling and political crises, the Osun State Legislators’ Forum, including Osun lawmakers at the National Assembly and Osun State House of Assembly, on Saturday invited stakeholders and some government officials in the state, including former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, to a conference on how to move the state out of its present economic stagnant.

Mrs. Ayo Omidiran member of the House of Representatives led the lawmakers to a press conference in Osogbo on Saturday. She said the forum was organized in order to get a lasting solution on how the State government could get out of the economic problem.

Omidiran said the main objective of the forum is to call all stakeholders together to discuss on why the state had been experiencing difficulty in its financial obligations to workers and contractors.

Speaking during the conference she said, “It is true that our dear state is in dire straits, It is true that our state is going through hard times. Workers and pensioners are owed many months’ salary and infrastructural development projects have come to a halt”.

“Members of the Osun Legislators’ Forum therefore decided to organise this summit to serve as an avenue to deliberate on the state of our state, interact with all stakeholders, including but not limited to all past governors and their deputies, technocrats and artisans, labour unions and non-governmental organisations, traditional rulers and market women; in short, everyone that has a stake in the State of Osun.

“We sent invitation to Senator Iyiola Omisore because he is a former deputy governor and a former Senator. We are expecting him and others to come to the conference.” Omidiran added that the outcome of the conference would be presented to Aregbesola, stating that the forum would wait to see what the governor would do with it.

Mr. Lasun Yusuf, who is Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, from Osun State, was absent at the press conference.

 Also Osun State Governor Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola; his deputy, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori; Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salaam, and other leaders were expected to attend the conference.