Daily Post reports that some of the residents who expressed shock
and disappointment over the development, the appointment of Miss Ngozi
Ugochi-Igbo was a slap on hard working indigenes of the state, as well
as loyalists of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the State.
The appointment of Miss Ugochi-Igbo, an indigene of Imo State had
earlier been announced by Segun Ajiboye, the Chief Press Secretary to
the governor.
It was gathered that Miss Ugochi-Igbo, who recently completed her
one year mandatory National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, got the
appointment due to her close ties with the governor’s wife, Betty
Anyanwu-Akeredolu, who also hails from Imo State.
Speaking on her appointment, a resident of the State, Wole Babalola
described the move as a deliberate slap on the faces of APC members who
he said were yet to be compensated for their unquantifiable role
towards ensuring that Akeredolu was elected as governor.
According to Babalola, he said that the appointment had further
dampened the morale of other party members, particularly youths across
the various wards.
“I’ve never seen a thing like this. It seems the governor is
now telling us to our faces that we don’t amount to nothing despite our
commitments and loyalty to him.
“I have never heard about name of this new appointee. She
contributed nothing to the campaign. Now she is reaping from our sweat
just because she is close to Betty. They are even saying that she is
just her make-up artist. Can you just imagine,” he said.
Another resident, who simply gave his name as Kolade, “those that are defending her appointment really need to be checked, something must be definitely wrong with them.
“The appointment is just a kind of ‘you sit here and be
chopping money codedly’. I don’t really have issues with her though. The
people I have issues with are those old men and youths, most especially
those whose only daily job is to insult people who don’t see things
their way, in the name of defending Aketi’s government.
“Most of them have been doing this for more than two years now
and not even a single appointment has been given to them. They are
always here receiving insults here and there while defending the
indefensible
“They need better orientation and prayers because it seems
their own destiny doesn’t deserve good things aside defending rubbish
and being insulted for it.”
Also, Stephen Tubosun said that “Imagine Arigidi /Iye ward one
of Akoko North West Area of Ondo State where Akeredolu scored the
highest number of votes in 2012 and 2016 governorship election has no
single appointment from state level nor single project but he is busy
sharing appointment to non indigenes.”
However, some residents of the state stressed that there was nothing wrong as regards the appointment.
According to them, competence should be the over-riding factor when
it comes to appointment which they said that the governor must have
seen.
According to Mary, she maintained that the wife of the governor
should be seen as an Ondo State woman since she got married from the
state hence her people are entitled to every other benefit that accrue
to indigenes of the state.
“So, as an Ondo lady now, if my husband emerged as the governor of other state, my brother shouldn’t benefit from me?
“If Mrs. Akeredolu should hail from Okitipupa, would they still condemn the action of the governor for appointing her relatives?
“Wives don’t fall from heaven, they get families too and when
you marry a woman, both families become one except you are a stingy
man.”
On his part, Lulu Fawahinmi said, “it’s unfutunate that some
people have stayed so long in a society within the west. In 2013, I was a
young man working in Enugu as an errand boy. The Governor then,
appointed me as an SA. Heaven didn’t come down. Stop being tribute. One
Nigeria”
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