Stop collecting bribes to elongate tenure, Akeredolu warns LG chairs

Rotimi Akeredolu, Ondo State Governor has warned the caretaker chairmen in the 18 local government areas of the state against collecting money from their supervisory councillors to facilitate the elongation of their tenure, TOPNAIJA.NG reports.

Some caretaker chairmen were allegedly demanding payment of N20,000 each from supervisory councillors to bribe some people in the government to elongate their tenure.

It was gathered that some of the councillors were said to have begun to pay the money to their chairmen but the state government said there was nothing like that.

In a statement by the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Yemi Olowolabi, the governor declared that he never asked anybody to pay money for tenure elongation.

The statement read in part, “The attention of Ondo State Government has been drawn to a malicious falsehood allegedly being peddled by some caretaker chairmen in the state that Governor Akeredolu had mandated all serving supervisors in the 18 local government areas to contribute N20,000 each to facilitate the extension of their tenure in office.

“The governor hereby dissociates himself from this blatant fraud and warns all the 203 supervisors in our 18 local government areas not to fall prey to the antics of any chairman, asking them to contribute N20,000 tenure extension fees.”

The governor threatened to prosecute caretaker chairmen found guilty of collecting purported tenure elongation fees from the supervisors or members of the public, saying such money was illegal and fraudulent.