Makinde impatient, overzealous, has no right to review Ajimobi’s appointment- APC

Oyo state chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has taken a lash at the state governor, Engr Seyi Makinde, on his purported decision to review some appointments made by former governor Abiola Ajimobi.

The party warned the action was in contravention of the constitution that guides his responsibilities as the sitting governor of the state.

In a statement signed by Dr Azeez Olatunde, the party’s Publicity Secretary in Ibadan on Sunday, APC argued that the statement credited to the governor on reviewing Ajimobi’s appointment is ill-advised.

The statement reads “The Governor should know and be advised that all the decisions made by Senator Ajimobi were within his constitutional rights to do as the sitting governor.

“His mandate only ended on May 28 and actions taken while he held the mandate were within his right as governor and within the letters of the constitution.”

The party also frowned at the decision of Governor Makinde to reverse the promotion of the Permanent Secretaries (PS) but refused to reverse that of the Head of Service.

APC said  Makinde was taking such decision because the Head of Service is the wife of his ally.

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“For someone who professes to be the people’s governor, his action does not reflect this. By that decision, he has taken away the happiness and celebration by the newly promoted PS.

“His action could also be likened to the decision to dissolve the legally elected local government administration. How would he feel if someone takes his mandate from him through executive fiat as he has done?

“For a man who professes godliness, his actions are antithetical to what he professes.

“The APC is of the opinion that he wants to play politics with that action, that is why he took the decision, forgetting that these newly promoted PS are deserving of the promotion.

“It is ill-advised; it is ungodly and negates his professed love for the masses. The PS are first and foremost citizens of the State whom he professed to love.”

APC, however, said Makinde’s action showed that he was impatient and overzealous about the seat he occupied.

“Governor Makinde seems to be forgetting that he has a four-year mandate, he should therefore reflect deeply on his actions before they are carried out.

“What he has done clearly shows the impunity that was the hallmark of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before the progressives brought sanity into governance. Oyo State and Nigeria should not go back to that era. The years of the locust”, the statement read.

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