Ondo: Gov Aiyedatiwa’s Newly Appointed 344 Aides Are Election Riggers – PDP Campaign Group

By Ayodele Oni

The governorship candidate of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state, Agboola Ajayi has observed that the last minute appointment of over 300 aides by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has shown his confused state of mind.

Aiyedatiwa is Saturday released names of 344 Senior Special Assistants and Special Assistants less than three months to the governorship election.

Spokesman of PDP’s Ajayi Campaign Group, Ayo Fadaka, in a statement on Sunday, pointed out that appointing such high number of aides without work schedule was criminal.

The statement states “Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa continues to remain a pitiable sight as the helmsman of our State, his acclaimed rudderless and incompetence is consistently impressed on our psyche as he misses no such opportunity to prove it.

“The appointment on Friday of three hundred and forty-four aides is a ridiculous action of a Governor who is at sea over choices to make for the advancement of our State, confused largely over what should extend the frontiers of our development.

“He, but chose to prosecute petty partisanship desires at the expense of good governance, thus again confirming his unsuitability for the Governorship seat he currently occupies, which he consistently uses to retard our quest for economic and societal growth.

“To appoint three hundred and forty-four aides, with no specific governmental responsibilities and defined functions is criminal, particularly when due cognisance is taken of the fact that their renumeration per month is going to cost government about N1.2billion.

“In fact, their number and resources to be expended on them is enough to begin a new Ministry!

“We declare that it is ridiculous and wrong for Lucky Aiyedatiwa to appoint APC Ward Canvasers as Senior Special Assistants and Special Assistants, Ondo State has never been this unlucky!

“We however assure him and his Party that this trick will not work, the people of Ondo State have since rejected him and his Party of hardship, pains and hunger, APC.

“They are merely waiting for Nov 16th to firmly stamp it at the polls, therefore will bear with equanimity and strength everyone of their misdeeds and punish them accordingly at the polls.

“We remain at alert, and advise Aiyedatiwa to abandon his desire to implement the Kogi rigging model here, as it will be firmly resisted, and backfire on him and his accomplices with deep consequences.

“The PDP, and in fact, the people of Ondo State are keenly watching every step they are taking.

“Conclusively, we state that if an assemblage of massive SSAs and SAs didn’t work in the past, it is not going to work now.

“Our only regret however is that Ondo State is currently in the grip of the incompetents who cannot decipher the limits to which officialdom cannot pushed.”