Ekiti APC leaders petition Gov. Fayemi over lopsided appointments
Some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State have complained about “unfair treatment” in the sharing of political offices in the state.
The leaders in Ado-Ekiti Constituency 1, made this known in a protest letter to the state governor, Kayode Fayemi, on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti.
“Ado-Ekiti Constituency 1 is embittered at the way and manner our collective interest has been shortchanged in the sharing of political positions,” they said in the letter.
The letter titled, “Inequality, unfairness and marginalisation in political office sharing to Ado Constituency 1” was signed by seven ward chairmen, women leaders, youth leaders, secretaries and councillors in the constituency.
They said the constituency, with the largest voting strength in the metropolis, has only 28 political appointees, while Ado-Ekiti Constituency 2, has more than 31 appointments in the present dispensation.
The aggrieved APC members alleged that they have been shortchanged by “unfair and unacceptable sharing formula”.
The leaders said that though they had let go of the anomaly in the interest of the party, they needed to present their grievances to the governor to ensure fairness, justice and equity in the next dispensation.
“It is our belief and this has been our stand all the while that APC success is our success, but in a situation where political appointments were lopsidedly shared and unevenly allocated between constituencies within the metropolis is no longer acceptable to us and it is becoming counter productive,” they said.
They warned that concentration of political appointments in one geographical area of an environment gives room for a drift of loyalty, particularly when it gets to the point of “the-power-that-be” not being sensitive enough to correct the anomalies.
“If all these agitations are not attended to and ensure that they are corrected on time, it is no threat that we may lose the constituency to the opposition that has picked its running mate from our constituency,” they said.
The aggrieved members also copied the State Deputy Governor, Bisi Egbeyemi and a former Deputy Governor in the state, Modupe Adelabu; as well as chairmen of the party in state and Ado-Ekiti Local Government.
(NAN)
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