PRESS STATEMENT
AKEREDOLU’S HEALTH: ONDO YPP SADDENED BY BITTER POLITICS THAT MAY GROUND GOVERNANCE IN THE STATE
The Ondo State chapter of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) has expressed concern over what it calls bitter politics that may ground governance in the State. At its State Executive Council meeting in Akure, the Party noted that major players in the State politics might have abandoned their duty of purchasing good life for the people to embracing the game of power-that may ultimately have a negative effect on the people.
‘We are ashamed of Politicians in the State, who have suddenly neglected their roles of purchasing good life for the people but are bent on playing bitter politics with the health of the State Governor-Arakurin Rotimi Akeredolu.”
The Party strongly suspects that some internal wranglings within the machinery of government are responsible for the inability of the state to respond appropriately to the impact of the fuel subsidy removal that has made life tough for the people.
While other States have responded appropriately with policy communication and execution, Ondo State is yet to find its voice or make known any intention or plan to alleviate the immediate impact of the fuel subsidy removal.
We have cause to believe that governance is on recess, as our health facilities have suffered a major decline, while teachers in some of our tertiary institutions are being owed months of salaries and allowances.
As a party, we have cause to believe that dirty politics is currently being played by factions in government and if urgent action is not taken, it may completely ground the wheels of governance in the state.”
We see that the constitution of the land has been respected by the transmission of power to the acting Governor; we therefore urge everyone to allow government to run without this atmosphere of bitter politicking.
It is nothing noble to abandon the pressing demands of good governance for ridiculous speculations about the health of our ailing Governor, and the needless scrambling for power when there is indeed no vacuum in the corridors of power is shameful.
Once again, our demands, as a Party is for the Acting Governor and his administration to give Ondo State a clear policy direction considering the biting effects of fuel subsidy removal on the citizens.
Moky
COMRADE GOKE WILLIAMS
State Publicity Secretary.
