Ondo PDP Faults Akeredolu’s Style of Governance

Fidelis David in Akure

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has faulted governance style of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu. According to a statement by the Publicity Secretary of Ondo State PDP, Mr. Kennedy Ikantu Peretei, yesterday, Mother and Child Hospitals, Free School Shuttle Buses and the state-owned Rufus Giwa Polytechnic (RUGIPO), Owo as areas which has allegedly experience the maladministration and misrule of Akeredolu.

The statement said:”Since his assumption of office as governor on 24th February, 2017, governance has been on a steady negative slide. Leaders of his party, All Progressives Congress (APC) were the first victims of his high handedness, which became manifest in the sheer number of persons who sought to replace him when he indicated interest to run for a second term.

“The free school shuttle buses that parents and students enjoyed for more than six years under the previous administration suddenly disappeared from the streets under Akeredolu.

“Mother and child hospitals that provided free medical services to pregnant women and children below the age of five have all turned out to be mere consulting clinics, as more than 150 medical doctors pulled out of the state’s employment due to poor conditions of service.”
The woes that have accompanied Akeredolu’s misrule are endless and the people are suffocating daily.
“Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo has become a ghost of its former self, since the coming of Rotimi Akeredolu. Incidentally, the governor hails from the ancient town too.

Why he allowed this level of ruin in the only government owned tertiary institution in his birth place beats one’s imagination,” he said.

The party noted subventions to the school have been on the decline while the school is being loaded with new staff from Akeredolu and his aides.

“Workers have not been promoted in the last three years. Even jobs that are awarded by TETFUND are hijacked by governor’s cronies. The entire place has been reduced to something near hell. As it stands, the school has more staff than students because of increment in school fees, which students cannot afford.

“On Monday, 1st November, 2021, at the launching of office complex of Anglican Diocese, Bishops Court, Owo, students of the school blocked the convoy of the Governor, displaying placards with various inscriptions, appealing to the governor to pay the arrears of the Polytechnic staff salaries that is more than ten months. How does the governor expect these workers to feed their families?

” Governor Akeredolu should not ruin everything that he met in Ondo State, as history will be very unkind to him if he continues on this lane”, the statement added.

Reacting the allegations of PDP, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation in the state, Mr. Donald Ojogo described them as a calculated attempt to distract governor Akeredolu.

He said: “If the role of the opposition is to be the watchdog, it then means the PDP has failed in this regard. The people of Ondo State will not forget in a hurry, how the immediate past PDP administration sacked over 30 workers of the same institution they have turned around to ‘protect’.

He alleged that the last PDP administration killed the Polytechnic by owing over 13 months salaries spanning from 2010.

“We can recall with pains how the last PDP administration deliberately killed tertiary education to the extent that a former vice chancellor had to resign his appointment in protest that Mimiko starved the school of funds.

“The situation was not different in all other tertiary schools until we came on board. They were rather, the killers of tertiary education in the State before we came on board”.