The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council in Ondo State has described the appointment of 344 aides by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa as a drain in the purse of the government.

The spokesman of the campaign organisation, Mr Ayo Fadaka said the appointment without a portfolio showed the cluelessness of the government, saying the governor chose partisanship over governance of the state.

Recall that the state government on Friday announced the appointment of 28 senior special assistants and 316 special assistants to help the governor in the running of the administration and made the government closer to the grassroots.

However, the PDP described the appointment as ward campaign coordinators instead of special assistants to the governor, saying the appointments would not add value to the state or the governor.

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

“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 Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to appoint APC Ward Canvassers 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 November 16th to firmly stamp it at the polls, therefore will bear with equanimity and strength every one of their misdeeds and punish them accordingly at the polls.

“We remain 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.

“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.” (Sunday Telegraph)

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