Beware of sycophants, Cleric warms Akeredolu

THE Ondo state governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, has been advised not be sectional in his government and be weary of sycophants but should  concentrate towards moving the state to a greater path.

The Archbishop of Ondo Province of Anglican Diocese, Bishop Latunji Lasebikan, who stated this on Sunday during a thanksgiving service at Saint Andrew Anglican Church Owo, also urged the new governor to give priority to the payment of workers salary.

He said ” You are elected to leader the people not a section of the people. If you are doing things for the benefit of a group that will be ungodly. You are the governor of everybody.

“Beware of sycophants who will praise you not because you are doing well. But the day what you do not benefit sycophants; they will turn around to become your biggest critics. When people began to give you adulation as a leader, watch out.

While speaking on workers salary, the cleric noted that salary had been a great challenge to many of the states in the country called on Akeredolu to find a lasting solution to the issue and put lies on the faces of the workers in the state.

He said “many of our people have not been paid, not only in Ondo State but in different parts of Nigeria. It is in East, North and every part of the country.

” This is not good enough, a labourer is worthy of his wage and government needs to do something that the public will know that the government is taking care of them otherwise people will not respond to the politicians. I know recession has been a bad thing for the nation but there should be way that workers are paid”

Lasebikan however advised Akeredoliu not to waste his energy and precious time probing past administration saying probe of past administration have failed to yield any positive results.

“What is the meaning of that, probe of governments in the past, what do you make out of it. You get to an office, do your own job.

“President Buhari was to ensure that all those who mismanaged our money are brought to book, what have we got so far? The precious time he would have used to do better thing has been wasted pursuing people who are unwilling to bend. The whole nation is suffering because of probe; probe has no meaning for anybody.”  He said

The Bishop however prayed for the new administration in the state, and asked God to lead the governor aright.