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, Engr. Akeem
Olatunji said that ALGON members who were raising issues about
Governor Seyi Mankinde’s proposed composition of the Local Governments
leadership as swimming against the tide of public opinion in the
state.
According to the PDP, there is every need to reconstitute the
leadership in the Local Governments and the LCDAs, noting that such
step will be in the right direction and in satisfaction of the
yearning of a teeming majority of residents in the State.
“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.
“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.
The party also maintained that the former chairmanโs rant was medicine
after death, because the circumstances that led to their sack were
different from what they portray to the unsuspecting public, as they
got into office through illegality and wanton disobedience to court
order and that their election or more or less undemocratic coronation
could not stand.
The statement further read: โOur attention has been drawing to the
latest rants of some individuals who identify themselves, though
illegally, as Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) in
which they tried to paint the Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi
Makinde, in bad light over his reported plan to appoint interim
management committees for local councils ahead of election into the
councils.
