Adeleke’s Statutory Board Nominations  Merit-based, Not Political, Says Osun PDP

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo

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 over the weekend, the State Chairman of PDP, Hon. Sunday Bisi, told the opposition All Progressive Congress (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.

The chairman said that they are all qualified technocrats and competent professionals.

He 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’s 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 shame and embarrassment brought upon the people of the state and from further unjustifiable waste of resources into which the past APC’s administration pummeled the state.

The state’s chairman of PDP 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.