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By Emman Ovuakporie
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN with so many years of legal practice attached to his tall credentials.
A former President of Nigeria Bar Association, NBA with an impeccable record to display.
But events unfolding in his Sunshine State clearly indicate that his immaculate records needed to be x-rayed a second time.
He threw caution to the wind immediately his deputy, Hon Agboola Ajayi left him to sail alone.
His first mission after he lost his deputy was to fire all his aides without thinking of tomorrow.
It will cost him nothing to retain his aides because their salaries are already budgeted and the money can never go to his pocket.
His predecessor, Olusegun Mimiko will be adored by most politicians in Ondo for one singular reason.
As soon as Mimiko assumed office in 2008 he paid the severance fees of all political appointees from 1999-2008 thereby touching the lives of those men and women who were in government house before his emergence.
In Edo State, Akeredolu’s suspended chairman, Adams Oshiomhole chased away virtually everybody that was associated with his predecessor, Senator Oserheimen Osunbor.
Nobody can tell the story better than this writer because he was a victim as a former aide to Osunbor.
Just the way he de-marketed his new god son so we were labeled thieves in Edo months after we had returned government vehicles and properties in our possession.
It’s on record that till date no aide of Osunbor was paid severance but today we are all watching him doing his macabre dance alone.
In the case of Akeredolu, he is too polished and too refined to degenerate to the level of his suspended chairman who probably did not see the four walls of a grammar school.
But quickly forgot that it was the benevolence of very kind gods that elevated him to such lofty positions he attained on planet earth.
Akeredolu should take a cue from his predecessor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko and reinstate those men and women he fired in the name of politics.
Heaven will not fall rather he will be elevated before men.