The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in the
South-West, Karounwi Oladapo, on Tuesday, lampooned the Peoples
Democratic Party in the zone for faulting the creation of 19 local
council development authorities by Ekiti State Governor Kayode
Fayemi.
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Oladapo said that the criticism showed that the opposition party
was ignorant of the fact that councils and LCDA headquarters “are
growth centres where development spreads to the other towns and
communities under them”.
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The APC zonal publicity secretary, spoke in a statement titled,
‘Creation of LCDAs in Ekiti: Pardon the ignorance of the South West
PDP’, where he reacted to a statement by the South-West PDP that
the LCDA creation in Ekiti State was a misplaced priority and an
attempt to siphon the state resources.
Oladapo said, “The PDP should be reminded about the incalculable
and incurable damage it has done to Ekiti State by scrapping the
previous LCDAs that have been created by the successive progressive
governments in Ekiti State. The PDP has long arrested the
grassroots development in Ekiti State out of mischief and
ignorance.
“The government of Alliance for Democracy, under the leadership
of Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo was about the same time with the AD
government of Lagos State started the process of creation of
additional local governments.
“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu created additional 37 LCDAs to complement
the existing 20 local governments in Lagos, making 57. The 57 are
still subsisting and robustly too, till today. This singular act
has impacted positively on the grassroots development in Lagos.
“Creating additional LCDAs in Ekiti will stimulate more
development and engender increment in the internally generated
revenues to the LCDAs; meaning more money will be available than
hitherto. It will automatically lead to the elevation of some
existing local government workers.”
The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in the
South-West, Karounwi Oladapo, on Tuesday, lampooned the Peoples
Democratic Party in the zone for faulting the creation of 19 local
council development authorities by Ekiti State Governor Kayode
Fayemi.
Oladapo said that the criticism showed that the opposition party
was ignorant of the fact that councils and LCDA headquarters “are
growth centres where development spreads to the other towns and
communities under them”.
The APC zonal publicity secretary, spoke in a statement titled,
‘Creation of LCDAs in Ekiti: Pardon the ignorance of the South West
PDP’, where he reacted to a statement by the South-West PDP that
the LCDA creation in Ekiti State was a misplaced priority and an
attempt to siphon the state resources.
Oladapo said, “The PDP should be reminded about the incalculable
and incurable damage it has done to Ekiti State by scrapping the
previous LCDAs that have been created by the successive progressive
governments in Ekiti State. The PDP has long arrested the
grassroots development in Ekiti State out of mischief and
ignorance.
“The government of Alliance for Democracy, under the leadership
of Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo was about the same time with the AD
government of Lagos State started the process of creation of
additional local governments.
“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu created additional 37 LCDAs to complement
the existing 20 local governments in Lagos, making 57. The 57 are
still subsisting and robustly too, till today. This singular act
has impacted positively on the grassroots development in Lagos.
“Creating additional LCDAs in Ekiti will stimulate more
development and engender increment in the internally generated
revenues to the LCDAs; meaning more money will be available than
hitherto. It will automatically lead to the elevation of some
existing local government workers.”