THE Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has
said that the Ayo Fayose
led-government expected to
take over on October 16 and
to be headed by Mr Ayò
Fayose, will not recognise all
appointments and
recruitments made by the
Governor Kayode Fayemi-led
administration, after the June
21 governorship election in
the state.

The PDP, in a statement
made available to newsmen
in Ado Ekiti, on Thursday,
said that: “the Fayemi
administration has acted
callously and primitively, as
no responsible outgoing
government will put land
mines in the way of its
successor through frivolous
recruitments and booby
elevation to its topmost
positions a few weeks to the
handover.”

In the statement signed by
its publicity secretary,
Pastor Kola Oluwawole, the
party also claimed that it had
“records of staff strength in
the state public service
before June 21 poll and was
following the bogus
appointments and illegal
recruitment being done in
various sectors afterwards.”

He 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 (BSES)
and others was before the
June 21 governorship
election in which our party
thoroughly trounced Fayemi
and his All Progressives
Congress (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, over
1,500 into the teaching
service, among others, after
they lost the election and
how they are clever by half
by backdating the letters of
appointment.”

But the state government, in
a reaction, said it was still in
power till October 16 and
would “not listen to
distractions by the PDP that
isn’t circumspect as it
prepares to come into
government.”

The state Commissioner for
Information and Civic
Orientation, Mr Tayo
Ekundayo, who reacted to
the development, said “we
will continue to recruit to fill
all vacancies because we are
in government till October
16,” and added that “if the
PDP likes, let them sack them
when they get to power.”

The PDP had claimed in the
statement that: “It is
pertinent to note here that
there is no civil servant in
the state that does not
understand the magnitude of
the debt that the state has
incurred under the outgoing
government and the
implications on the economy
of the state and the state’s
finances.
“Inasmuch as the incoming
PDP government led by the
Governor-Elect, Dr Ayo
Fayose, takes the welfare of
the people of Ekiti State as a
priority, we strongly
condemn the divisive and
destructive shenanigans
being dangerously displayed
by the outgoing
administration.”