Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has vowed to sack workers employed by the Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, after his defeat in the June 21 governorship election.

In a statement by the State Publicity Secretary, Kola Oluwawole, in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, the party accused the All Progressives Congress-led government of embarking on frivolous recruitment and promotion a few weeks to the handover.

Describing all the appointments and recruitment made as booby trap for the incoming Governor, Ayodele Fayose, the PDP said the government had acted “callously and primitively” because “no responsible outgoing government will put land mines on the way of its successor.”

The party claimed it had records of staff strength in the state public service before the June 21 poll and was following the bogus appointments and illegal recruitment in various sectors afterwards.

Oluwawole said, “We know what the staff strength in the core civil service, the teaching service, the local government, the House of Assembly, the Broadcasting Service of Ekiti State and others was before the June 21 governorship election in which our party thoroughly trounced Fayemi and his APC.

“We also know how the Fayemi administration has illegally recruited over 3,000 into the civil service, 1,000 into Ekiti State University, over 100 into BSES, and over 1500 into the teaching service among others after they lost the election and how they are clever by half by backdating the letters of appointment.

“The question the good people of Ekiti State should ask Fayemi and his party is why are they just waking up to engage in massive recruitment in the twilight of their tenure in office?

Those given such letters of appointment should consider themselves to be on temporary appointment and as having a victory that is short-lived,” he said.

Oluwawole also accused the government of unethical recruitment of several non-indigenes stressing that the recruitment “could never stand the test of time.”

But the Commissioner for Information, Tayo Ekundayo, said he was not aware of any employment by the government after the June 21 governorship election.

According to him, the PDP has continued to raise spurious allegations just to be in the news.

He said, “I am not aware of any employment into the civil service commission. But if there is any need for us to recruit people base on budget and need, of course, we will go ahead and recruit. Are the people they said we have recruited not indigenes of Ekiti.

“If they are from Ekiti, then, they have the rights to be employed if there is vacancy. So, we do not owe anybody any apology. They (PDP) are just unnecessarily getting excited over their so called election victory.

“They can decide to sack anybody they like when they get to office. We have said we didn’t recruit and the university has also denied the allegation. They only want to be in the news all the time even for wrong reasons. As am speaking, we are preparing the handover note to reveal all we have done before and after the election,” Ekundayo added.

fkaz:

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fkaz: See boobyy trap, but if fayose really love his people he should not sack those employee, because Ekiti people won't live by bags of rice alone the youth need job also.