PDP Slams Akeredolu For Appointing Son As DG

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state has slammed the appointment of Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu’s son, Babajide as the Director-General of Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit (PPMIU) in the state.

Recall that Governor Akeredolu had on Tuesday nominated his son as DG PPMIU alongside 14 others as commissioners, and seven as Special Advisers.

The opposition party described the move as a grand design to empty Ondo state’s treasury in a statement released by its Publicity Secretary Kennedy Peretei in Akure.

The statement titled “Akeredolu’s misrule in Ondo State: Government of Father, the Wife and the Son” reads:

” The recent appointment of Babajide Akeredolu, a biological son of Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN as the Director-General of Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit (PPMIU) is a flagrant abuse of office and affront on the people of Ondo State.

“The name Babajide Akeredolu became known in Ondo state when the State’s funds were used to procure a marriage for him in Colorado, USA after the same marriage was consummated in Owo,  his father’s birthplace. 

“He has since assumed authority as part of the triad of the reign of father, wife and son.

“The appointment as DG of PPMIU for Babajide, a young man who carries on as though, he was the person voted for as Governor is part of the grand design to finally empty the treasury of the State before Akeredolu returns to Ibadan.

“Only last week, Babajide was reported to have brought another Consultant to take charge of forestry operations in the State.

“lt thus appears that Mr Governor and his immediate family are bent on living fat on the lean resources of the people, when poverty has taken over the land, walking in all four legs. 

“There is no further proof of Akeredolu’s insensitivity to the plight of the people when within two years of tenure, he organized three lavish weddings for his children, all in foreign lands. In Mauritius, Canada and Colorado, USA. Each of these weddings were bankrolled with Ondo State’s funds.

“Officials of the State Government, family members and friends were in these countries to celebrate with Akeredolu and family. Yet, this level of opulence and wasteful lifestyle only started when he became Governor.

“It is very apparent that it is the greed of the first family that is being fed, no longer their needs. 

“Akeredolu, his wife and children must appreciate that the resources they are wasting in this reckless manner was only given to them in trust for the people. They should remember that the day of reckoning is very near”.

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