The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has alleged that the state government was planning to appoint the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidates as caretaker chairmen in the 16 council areas in the state.The Ekiti PDP made the allegation in a statement made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, on Monday, and described the allegedly planned action “as fraudulent and an attempt to secure electoral mandate to rule the 16 local councils in the state for the ACN candidates through the backdoor.”
The party, in the statement credited to its chairman in the state, Chief Bola Olu-Ojo, also alleged that there were plans for “the suspension of Mrs Bunmi Oriniowo and Mr Dele Ajibola, the two PDP members in the state House of Assembly, for deposing to an affidavit in support of the party’s case against the appointment of ACN members as members of the state Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC).”
But the state government, in a reaction through the Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mr Funminiyi Afuye, said “it is not the duty of the PDP to bother about who is made caretaker committee chairmen. It is the duty of government to ensure governance. There can’t be vacuum in governance.”
Afuye said: “They took the matter to court initially. They cannot approbate and reprobate at the same time. The government of Dr Kayode Fayemi is not lawless like the one PDP ran when it was in power. We believe in the rule of law. We have appealed against the judgment and the case is pending in court.”
The PDP had pointed out in the statement that “the planned suspension of the two PDP members in the state House of Assembly is a direct invitation to an unprecedented crisis in the state.”
The PDP chairman said “it would amount to bringing the ACN candidates into office through a black market arrangement, if people whose elections could not be held on Saturday are now made to assume office tomorrow as caretaker chairmen.”
Olu-Ojo also alleged in the statement that “vice chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the ACN are to be appointed as secretaries to the local councils and ward development officers respectively.”
He said the PDP in Ekiti State would “fight the use of caretaker chairmen to run the state local councils and the planned suspension of the two PDP members the way it fought the appointment of ACN members as SIEC members.”
Olu-Ojo, in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Monday, alleged that Governor Fayemi had concluded plan to swear in the new caretaker chairmen today, “having used his rubber stamp House of Assembly to sack the councils’ caretaker committee on Friday.”
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