Resignation, protests trail appointment of Ondo LG caretaker committees

Tamarauemi Ebimini

The appointment of the Interim Management Committee for the 18 Local Government Areas and 33 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs), by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has been greeted by resignations and protests.

Leaders of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in many of the LCDAs said the list was doctored.

Ondo Assembly has screened and cleared the 51 Caretaker Committees.

Senator Jide Ipinsagba representing Ondo North rejected the persons nominated and cleared for Akoko North East Local Government.

He said the list was contrary to the agreed nominations by stakeholders from the locality.

Youths from Araromi-Obu stormed the streets of Akure to protest the appointment of non-indigenes as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Ifesowapo  LCDA.

The protesting youths said the nomination and appointment of Mr. Olarewaju Makinde and Mr. Giwa Rasheed as the chairman and vice chairman respectively failed to reflect the spirit of fairness to Araromi-Obu as the host community and the indigenes of the town.

According to their President, Comrade Adesanoye Akinbinu:  “Their appointment is considered as insult to the collective sensibility and it is set to

deepen the age long conspiracy against the interest of our community if not rescinded. To this extent we reject them. The gods of our land reject them.”

In Uso-Emure-Ile LCDA, Hon Omosuwa Olayemi Maxwell rejected his appointment as Vice Chairman of the Committee.

Hon Omosuwa said he rejected the appointment to douse the tension of acrimony between his hometown, Uso and Emure-Ile.

He said the first Chairman of the new LCDA ought to come from Uso and not Emure-ile.

“People of my community are seriously angry with this decision, therefore, it will be wrong of me to take the position of vice chairman to my community,” he said.