Governor Ibikunle Amosun has appointed Mr Ndimele Emmanuel Ofor as a permanent secretary in the Ogun state civil service. Vanguard reports that the governor of Ogun state also appointed a native of Kogi state, Mr. Ipinniwa Steve Olusegun as a permanent secretary.The two were among the 14 new permanent secretaries sworn in by Amosun at the State executive council chambers at his office in Oke-mosan, Abeokuta. The governor said the appointment of Ofor who is from Abia
state was a testament to the state’s ability to reward people who have worked hard for Ogun state’s development irrespective of the region they come from. He said:“I believe that if someone has been serving in a place for 20, 30 years he can no longer be called a non-indigene. He has been with us and he has worked with us. He is now part of us. He cannot be called a non-indigene, and in any event, it will be unfair and unjust to deprive someone who worked for you his deserved elevation on account of where he comes from.”
The governor added that, “As for me, hard work rather than where you come from should be the basis for promotion.” He noted that “This is the first time we are having non- indigenes as permanent secretaries in the state and they are part and parcel of us, irrespective of where they are from, we’ll honour them because they have proven themselves to be hard working” Meanwhile, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere and Igbo pan-political group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, berated a former minister of education and member of the Northern Elders Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, over his call for component units in Nigeria to go their separate ways. But according to Afenifere, Abdullahi’s statement show he is unpatriotic, The Punch reports. Chief Sehinde Arogbofa, the secretary-general of the group, said there was no need for the country to break up before its problem could be resolved. Arogbofa called for the restructuring of the country so that every component would be able to live according to its own wealth. This was supported by Yinka Odumakin, the national publicity secretary of the group.
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