The Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reiterated Governor Adeleke’s commitment to merit in nominating Chairmen and members of Statutory Boards in the State, affirming that all nominated individuals are prominent indigenes of the state, whose main priority is to better the lots of the state.
In a statement issued in Osogbo on Friday, the State Chairman of the Party, Hon. Sunday Bisi, told the opposition APC and its fingerling vuvuzelas that, in appointing Chairmen and members of Statutory Commissions such as the State Electoral Commission (OSSIEC), State Judicial Service Commission (JSC), State Civil Service Commission and The State House of Assembly Service Commission, merit, capacity and competence should be the watchword and remained the centre point of consideration in the nominees forwarded by His Excellency to the House of Assembly for confirmation into the respective Statutory Boards. They are all qualified technocrats and competent professionals.
The State Chairman further reminded the APC that the recently dissolved OSSIEC plunged the State into serious but avoidable financial losses running into billions of Naira during the immediate past APC Administration, over the doomed YES/NO Local Government abracadabra called election as a result of incompetence, greed, recklessness, lack of fear of God and disregard for due process of law.
He reminded the APC and their hirelings that it was the dogged efforts of the PDP through its Legal Team that saved Osun from the sham and embarrassment brought upon the people of the state and from further unjustifiable waste of resources into which the past APC Administration pummelled the State.
In his words, the Chairman opined that “The APC and others who joined them in their inglorious voyage ought to be purged of their ignorance that politics is different from State governance and administration. Appointments by Governor Adeleke so far have been merit-based, capacity-driven and incontrovertible competence.
Many of Adeleke’s cabinet members and other appointees are not politicians and/or were not appointed based on any political consideration but on skill, capacity, and professionalism. Appointments into statutory boards are therefore not an exception in this context
As a matter of fact, most of the agencies are so critical that only competent professionals and skilled technocrats must be appointed. What then is the fuss if there is anyone presently serving in Adeleke’s cabinet but now considered for another appointment based on his considered area of competence, track record of impeccable integrity and professionalism.
It is a shame for APC and its town criers to speak always from both sides of their mouth, approbating and reprobating on matters with very few borderlines.
While it was good for APC dominated National Assembly to approve nominees into the National Electoral Commission, INEC, not minding their background or traceable history with APC, it becomes a taboo to them here in Osun to have proven professionals nominated into the state’s electoral body.
APC should be aware that it has hit a dead end in the state such that even if Sooko Lawal is made to chair any election involving the party in the state, APC will still lose woefully as the party has lost all candour of a responsible political party.
The APC propagandists should be cautioned that partisanship is not a consideration at all in appointing heads and members of Statutory boards, but merit, competence and professionalism like in the case of recently released OSSIEC nominees and other statutory commissions in the State that is haemorrhaging them into sleeplessness.
While expressing abject pity for the disillusioned men of yesterday and some rudderless hirelings, on whom the troubled APC is desperately preying with peanuts, the Chairman warned that “any sponsored move against merit and due process in appointments and other statutory functions of government in the state, would be met with stiff resistance ever imagined”, he concluded
