Yinka Adeniran, Ibadan
The Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described members of the sacked local government chairmen under the aegis of Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) as mere noise makers who want to keep benefiting from illegal conducts.
The PDP in a statement by its state Publicity Secretary, Akeem Olatunji, an engineer, said that the ALGON members, who were raising issues about Governor Seyi Mankinde’s proposed composition of the local governments’ leadership, were swimming against the tide of public opinion.
According to the PDP, there is need to reconstitute the leadership in the local governments and LCDAs, noting that such step will be in the right direction and in satisfaction of the yearning of a teeming majority of residents.
“As a party, the PDP wishes to tell the governor to ignore the latest rants of the sacked illegal council chairmen on the planned appointment, stating that it was another tactic to hold the people of the state to ransom by crippling governance at the grassroots.
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“The sacked chairmen claiming to still be members of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) in Oyo State despite having been sacked legally had attacked Governor Makinde over a reported plan to appoint caretaker chairmen for local councils, a step which the PDP described as baseless noise-making that cannot hold water,” the party said.
It said that the former chairman’s rant was medicine after death, because the circumstances that led to their sack were different from what they portrayed to the unsuspecting public, as they got into office through illegality and wanton disobedience to court order, adding that their election or more or less undemocratic coronation could not stand.
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