Ekiti Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on
Saturday sacked all the Caretaker
Chairmen of the 16 Local Government
Areas and the 19 newly created Local
Council Development Areas in the
state.
Also dissolved are all boards of
government corporations, agencies
and parastatals constituted by the
immediate past Governor, Dr. Kayode
Fayemi.
Fayose, in a statement by his Chief
Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi,
directed all the caretaker chairmen to
immediately hand over to the Director
of Administration of their respective
council.
“The dissolution takes immediate
effect.
“All the local government and local
council development areas’ caretaker
chairmen are to hand over to the
Directors of Administration of the
existing local government areas.
“The Directors of Administration are to
take inventory of the property handed
over to them,” the statement read.
Caretaker chairmen were in control of
the 16 constitutionally recognised
LGAs during the administration of
Fayemi.
Caretaker committees were also
appointed for the 19 LCDAs
inaugurated shortly after the June 21
governorship election.
An attempt by the Fayemi to hold
council election in the 16 councils on
February 4, 2011, was stopped by the
state High Court, following a suit filed
by the PDP in the state that some of
the members of the State Independent
Electoral Commission were members
of the then ruling party, APC.
Fayemi, who had promised to hold
council election before the end of the
year was defeated by Fayose in the
June 21 election.
Fayose had his inaugural speech on
Thursday vowed not to fund the
LCDAs with the Federal Allocations for
the 16 councils listed in the 1999
Constitution.
He said “Section 7 of the 1999
Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria (as amended) clearly spells the
authorities and procedures for the
creation of local government.
“The sudden and shoddy balkanisation
of the existing 16 local government
areas by the immediate past
administration under the guise of
creating local council development
areas is being challenged in the court
of law.
“Our party considers the hurried
creation of the 19 LCDAs, after
incumbent (Fayemi) lost the June
election, as gratuitous afterthought of
a bad loser. It smacks of political
subterfuge masterminded in utmost
bad faith.
“But at the moment, the matter is sub
judice, and as law abiding citizens, our
government will not do anything that
will render the decision of the court
nugatory.
“However, pending the pronouncement
of the court, our administration shall
be guided by the provisions of Section
3, Part 1, First Schedule of 1999
Constitution on the list of local
governments in Nigeria in the
allocation of resources to that tier of
government.”
Meanwhile, Fayose, has yet to move
into the new Government House, Oke
Ayoba, Ado-Ekiti, just completed by
the immediate past Governor, Dr.
Kayode Fayemi. www.punchng.com/news/fayose-sacks-ekiti-lg-chairmen-boards-shuns-government-house/

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Let the war begin!!! The Governor is making statement already.

His ppl will now take over. This not new jor

Hmm! At least the Ghanaian has gone back to wherever he came from. He spent his time doing a lot of good jobs with much stealing though. Still he tried. Let us wait and see what "Irumole" will do in his time.