In a statement yesterday, the party’s Publicity Secretary, Dauda Kolawole, said the appointment was in fulfillment of the “gentleman’s agreement between Governor Ajimobi and the Accord Party leader, Rasheed Ladoja.
Kolawole said the decision was taken after a meeting with all stakeholders in the affected councils.
The party condemned a protest against the appointment by a group of youths, who claimed to be ACN members.
The party said the implementation of the agreement had been delayed for over a year to avoid the betrayal suffered in 2003 when ACN then Alliance for Democracy (AD) entered a similar pact with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
In Kwara State, council chairmen have denied allegation that Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed was deducting or sitting on any fund accruable to them from the Federation Account.
At joint press briefing with the state government officials after a meeting of the council bosses with Ahmed at the Government House, Ilorin, the state Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) and Chairman of Ilorin-South Local Council, Dr. Adebayo Ishola, who was flanked by the association’s Secretary in Ekiti Local Council, Mr. Ogunleye Abraham, said the claim by the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) was untrue.
In a statement, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Abdulwahab Oba, quoted Ishola as attributing the inability of most of the councils to pay their workers’ salaries to the shortfall in their allocations from the Federal Account since last May.
Ishola cleared the state government of any wrongdoing, saying the councils have many statutory duties, including the payment of teachers’ salaries and allowances, pensions, funding of State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).
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