AKURE— THE Ondo State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has faulted the recent sack of  nine Local Government Caretaker Committee Chairmen by Governor Olusegun Mimiko, alleging that it is a ploy to deceive the people to cover up his nefarious activities in the  council areas.

In a statement by the Director of Media, Publicity and Strategy for ACN, Mr. Idowu Ajanaku accused Governor Mimiko of tele-guiding the State House of Assembly to remove the caretaker committee chairmen, “citing cases of mismanagement of fund thereby confirming the fears that the local government appointees have become the conduit pipe through which the state funds have been fritted away.”

The party noted that “perhaps, the report is true that the refusal of these sacked chairmen to make the stolen funds available for the re-election project is what has made them suffer this fate in the hands of Mimiko.”

While faulting the refusal of the state government to conduct council polls, the party said it is appalled that “Mimiko has refused to conduct local government election for almost four years. We feel that this is not only barbaric but an undemocratic tendency with impunity.”