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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has described as wicked a statement credited to the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the July 14 election, Dr Kayode Fayemi, that local government workforce in the state is over-bloated and would be pruned down when he becomes governor.
In a statement by the State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Jackson Adebayo, in Ado-Ekiti on Monday, the former Minister of Solid Mineral Resources was said to have made the statement during his recent trip to the United States of America.
The party said Fayemi told his audience that in this computer age, the staff strength of each local government council should not be more than twenty five or less because majority of those who are working in the councils are redundant.
Àdebayo noted that Fayemi had never hidden his hatred for the LG workers ,saying that when he was the governor of the state, he constituted a team that was terrorising the workers every time which was known as “Boko Haram.”
“This is why it did not come as a surprise that the same Fayemi has concluded that he would reduce the workforce in the local government to 25 or below if he becomes governor again.
” This kind of mentality is in intent and purposes nefarious, ignoble and nauseating, especially as it’s coming from a supposedly family man who is expected to understand the pain such mass retrenchment will cause the workers,” he said.
The party explained that Fayemi was said to have already engaged a German company which would supply computers to be used in the council secretariats in replacement of the workers immediately he becomes governor.
PDP said that Fayemi, who is known to be enemy of workers in the state, had again played to the gallery by exposing his wicked plan even before the election, adding that his case is just like the leopard that will never change its spots under any circumstance.
Adebayo maintained that at a time when youths were clamouring for employment, “how could someone who is vying to be governor of Ekiti State be thinking on how he would replace workers with computers.
‘We, in the PDP, are using this medium to assure the local government workers that the dream of Dr Kayode Fayemi to sack them will not materialize by the special Grace of God. We shall win the election and we will employ more people into the councils.”
