The last-minute move by the outgoing administration of Governor Ayodele Fayose to recruit 600 teachers to the Teaching Service Commission, 400 workers to the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and 1,000 to the Ministry of Establishment is a deliberate effort to put obstacles on the path of the in-coming administration of Governor-elect Kayode Fayemi.
A statement by the Director of Media and Publicity in the Office of the Governor-Elect, Wole Olujobi, berated Fayose for embarking on a last-minute mass recruitment to deceive the unsuspecting victims and set a booby-trap for the incoming administration.
The statement said: “It is a grand deception and sheer wickedness for a governor, who has refused to pay workers and pensioners for between six and 10 months, to turn around to recruit about 2,000 workers in a selective manner to favour his supporters only.”
It described Fayose’s planned recruitment as an act of desperation by a governor who never cared for the people but would always take advantage of them in a most dehumanising manner.
The statement added: “Once again, we call on Ekiti people, as we did in our recent press release, to be wary of Fayose’s last-minute illegal deals, transactions and mass recruitment, which do not follow due process. “Any transaction so done shall be reviewed by the incoming administration.”
