Lagos State socio-cultural organisation, Omo Eko Pataki, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reconsider the recent appointment of Hon. Jide Jimoh as a member of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), occupying Lagos/Ogun’s slot on the Commission, saying that the president should remove him from the office.
It would be recalled that President Tinubu on Friday approved the appointment of 12 people to serve in the Federal Civil Service Commission, subject to the confirmation of the Senate.
Trustee of the Omo Eko Pataki, Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju (rtd.), who is also former Minister of Communications, made the call at the weekend in a signed statement, while drawing President Tinubu’s attention to what the socio-cultural group thought to be a mistake in his new appointment as regards FCSC.
Olanrewaju, in the statement titled “President Tinubu must hear this: Remove Jide Jimoh from Lagos/Ogun’s Federal Civil Service Commission slot,” which also indicated that a similar call was being made by some top indigenes of Ogun State, premised the call on the fact that the new appointee, Hon. Jimoh, is a blue-blood Kwara State indigene and, therefore, cannot occupy the only joint slot shared by Lagos and Ogun states on the Commission.
The former minister urged the president to remove “Jimoh, who is from Kwara State, which also has its own slot on the Commission, and appoint a new representative from the Lagos/Ogun states axis to feed into the joint slot.”
Olanrewaju frowned at what he termed an aberration, describing it as totally wrong, unjust, and a grave injustice to the true indigenes of the state, even as he pointedly declared that “Lagos State cannot continue to suffer from what belongs to it.”
The statement read: “Omo Eko Pataki has objections to the nomination of Mr Jimoh as a representative of Lagos-Ogun State.
Mr President, why should a non-indigene of Lagos State be nominated to occupy a constitutionally guaranteed position in Lagos State when the position is ceded to a Kwara State indigene?
“This aberration was also observed in the nomination of Mrs Ade-John as a full-fledged ministerial appointee, filling a vacancy constitutionally allotted to Lagos State.
This is totally wrong, unjust, and a grave injustice to the true indigenes of the state.
“Mr President, we, Omo Eko Pataki, feel that a stamp of continuous robbing Peter to pay Paul should be discontinued for real.
We appeal to you, sir, to urgently redress the wrong being done to your state. Your Excellency, Lagos State, cannot continue to suffer from what belongs to it.”
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