APC under fire for forcing civil servants into partisan politics

– PDP has decried alleged attempts by Governor Adams Oshiomhole to force civil servants into politics ahead of the September 10 Edo governorship election

– The party says it is wrong for the APC to issue a directive that civil servants must fly paraphernalia of the ruling party or face the sack

Governor Adams Oshiomhole is under fire for trying to politicize civil servants ahead of Edo governorship election.

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has lashed out at Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole for reportedly forcing civil servants to join in partisan politics ahead the governorship elections on September 10.

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According to Vanguard, the opposition party, in a statement on Sunday, September 4, condemned an alleged directive to civil servants in the state to where paraphernalia of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state as well as fly its flags and adorn their walls and tables with the party’s posters and stickers or face sack.

But PDP’s state publicity secretary, Chris Nehikhare has condemned this, saying it was wrong to politicize the civil service as against its rules.
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He said: “Civil servants are supposed to be apolitical, the trend where they were ordered through text messages ostensibly from the Head of Service to immediately adorn the arm bands, paste posters and put the APC flag on their desks, ‘with immediate effect’ is a tragedy.

“Although the text messages were also forwarded to local government employees in the state, indications are that they will not comply owing to the several months’ arrears of unpaid salaries.

“Even the orders to the head of Service who was also said to have received orders to proceed to collect consignments of the arm bands, flags and posters of the APC candidate from the party secretariat along Airport road, Benin City, is pathetic as it shows a desperation on the part of APC government to win the September 10 elections at all costs.”

Vanguard quoted a top unnamed civil servant in the Governor’s office who received his text message during a church service in Benin City, as complaining that the civil service was being turned into a political arena.

Meanwhile, Tom Marino, who is a member of the US congress has written a letter to the secretary of state, John Kerry asking the US to stop providing security assistance to Nigeria.

Marino accused President Muhammadu Buhari of autocratic tendency and therefore doesn’t deserve the help of the US until he displays a “commitment to inclusive government and the most basic tenets of democracy: freedom to assemble and freedom of speech”.

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