Fidelis David in Akure
The Ondo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday alleged that local government chairmen, whose three-year tenure ended in August 2023, are still collecting salaries from the state treasury.
The party also alleged that the former council bosses have refused to hand over their official vehicles in spite of the dissolution of the councils by the state Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, as the acting governor of the state.
In a statement made available to journalists by the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Kennedy Peretei, PDP claimed that the ugly development is simply because “new political helmsmen have not been appointed by the governor who has been battling with his health, and there is no agreement between warring factions of the government as to how to fill these sensitive vacancies.
“The multidimensional con-sequences of the absence of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu from his duty post, due to ill health, once again have come to the fore. The impunity orchestrated by Akeredolu and his collaborators on the people of Ondo State is unprecedented.
“In Akure South Local Government Area, the Rate Officers remit internally generated revenue of the local government to the former chairman who still carries on with all the paraphernalia of his office, apart from resuming in his office.
“On October 31, 2023, President Bola Tinubu held a meeting on the National Police Council in Abuja where all governors or their deputies attended, but Ondo State was conspicuously absent, neither has the state had any representation at the regular National Economic Council meetings in Abuja since Akeredolu fell ill.
“The Ondo State PDP once again reiterates that the plan of Akeredolu’s handlers to profit from this sorry state of affairs and completely run the state aground will be resisted by all lawful means.”
