Akeredolu’s wife plans to impose Igbo woman as LCDA chair – Ondo community

The demonstrators vowed to oppose the appointment of Ms. Nwamara, asserting that it would be disrespectful for their monarch to take directives from a caretaker chairperson who lacks a connection to the community.

Addressing the protest on behalf of the demonstrators, community leader Femi Olafumiloye stated that the Odigbo natives were ready to decline the appointment of a “complete outsider” as the LCDA’s caretaker chairperson.

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Mr. Olafunmiloye, who criticized the alleged involvement of the governor’s wife, deemed Ms. Nwamara’s appointment as unnecessary and warned that it could jeopardize the community’s harmony.

“How can we start an LCDA with a total stranger as the first caretaker chairperson? It is a passionate plea. She (the governor’s wife) can rescind this decision. We cannot take it. Let our people be the chairman. How can an Ibo woman communicate with us?” he queried.

Tunji Moyero, one of the youths in the community, said appointing Ms Nwamara, an Igbo woman, is nothing but an injustice to the people of Odigbo.

He said, “Our king cannot go to council to take orders from someone who is not from here. If we refuse to fight, our children will fight. Everybody must rise to this.

“We are begging the governor’s wife, and if there is any pronouncement to that regard, we have no other way. Our youths are prepared. We are fighting for what is legitimate,” he added.

Mayowa Akinfolarin, a former federal lawmaker and indigene of the community, asked Mrs Akeredolu to rescind her decision on the alleged plan.

Mr Akinfolarin, however, called for calm among the residents of the community, particularly the angry youths.

“And we appeal to Mrs Akeredolu that we love her and our neighbours. We are saying no to anything that will tamper with the peace of this locality,” he added,

Speaking to the assembled community members who were engaged in the protest, the traditional ruler appealed for calm and expressed his intention to find a peaceful resolution to the matter.

Furthermore, he assured that he would communicate with political leaders both within and outside the community in order to alleviate the concerns of the protesters.

Responding through a conversation, the senior special assistant on media to the governor’s wife, Oluwatobilola Fademi, refuted the involvement of the governor’s wife in the political aspects of the formation of the LCDA in Odigbo.

Ms. Fademi emphasized that Mrs. Akeredolu had not been present in the country and therefore could not have selected anyone to assume the role of caretaker chairperson for the newly established LCDA.

“I’m not aware of any plan to impose a non-indigene as the caretaker chairman of the new LCDA. Her excellency is not in Nigeria, and she could not have done that,” she said.

Akeredolu’s wife plans to impose Igbo woman as LCDA chair – Ondo community