The All Progressives Congress (APC) sees as unnecessary, the hype by Governor Obaseki over his government’s appointment of hundreds of Senior Special Assistants and Special Assistants across the State, in the face of a depleted civil service and dearth of teachers in public schools.
The APC is utterly disappointed that rather than employing qualified personnel to fill the thousands of vacant spaces in the State public service and the many public schools across the state, the government has turned governance into a toy and is busy appointing Senior Special Assistants and Special Assistants in the name of harmonizing his destabilized party, the PDP.
The hue and cry about the ridiculously colourless, myopic and uninspiring appointments does not convey any sense of hope or purposeful governance for the State, under the PDP government. Nevertheless,the APC is not surprised because such appointments can only come from a clueless government that does not have the interest of Edo people. It is a misplacement of priorities, a complete waste of time and a failed design to hoodwink the very enlightened Edo people.
Furthermore, the bloated list of appointments, designed to compensate political jobbers, sycophants and opportunists has further exposed the underbelly of Governor Obaseki and PDP’s insensitivity and disdain for Edo people, as it does not in any way reflect their hope and eagerness for a greater Edo State. And by the appointments, the government have left no one in doubt that they have no vision to make our state great again.
If, indeed, Governor Obaseki and the PDP mean well for Edo people and are interested in making the State great again, like their erroneously claim, they would have ended up prioritizing the employment of badly needed civil servants and teachers.
With this development, it’s clear that the only way Edo State can become great again, and come out of the present political and security quandary, the Obaseki government has led it into, especially as a New Year dawns, is for citizens to pray for divine intervention in the affairs of the state. Praying for vision for the government is the only way citizens can hope the state will move forward, at this rate.
Edo must move forward.
Signed
Victor Ofure Osehobo
Assistant State Publicity Secretary,
APC,
Edo State.