JUST IN: SEE Why The Sacked Oyo LG Chairmen Want To Return Forcefully

The attitude and current disposition of the sacked Oyo Local Government Chairmen towards their forceful return to offices has been described as self-centered and personal ulterior motives that have no care for the interest of the teaming population of the people of Oyo State.

Many in their opinion and arguments have questioned the autocracy and personal aggrandizement of Senator Abiola Ajimobi who failed to conduct the local government election for almost eight years until the eleventh hours he wanted to leave the office.

Politics of bitterness and acrimony apart, the sacked chairmen who are now running from pillar to post now should have challenged Ajimobi while in office for his failure and reluctance to conduct the election at an appropriate time.

Ajimobi had been given the privilege to mortgage their lives and the material resources attached to the office, why election was not conducted, he as a governor then had the opportunity with the support of the parliamentarians in Oyo State House of Assembly to give nod to the constitution and inauguration of the caretaker committee to paddle the affairs for almost seven years, imagine that!

Though before the conduct of the alleged one party election exercise, there was a court injuction that restrained the last government in Oyo State from conducting the election, Ajimobi was said to have gone ahead and conducted the local government election without regarding the pronouncement of the court.

Election was conducted a year towards the end of Ajimobi's administration and other political parties did not participate except the then ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) that conducted election for itself and declared self after the whole exercise.

Imagine how they met their waterloo as the emergence of Seyi Makinde as the newly elected governor of the state brought an abrupt end to the reign of the allegedly elected local government chairmen.

Having suspended them, the sacked chairmen under Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) currently headed by Abass Aleshinloye of Oluyole Local Government swang to action on how the acclaimed mandate would be retrieved either constitutionally or forcefully.

They and Oyo APC at large have been making frantic efforts through writings and consistent consultations on how their mandate would be retrieved and return would be ensured.

With back of power that be at the centre, they forcefully returned but unfortunately that the doors leading to the respective local councils were locked, in their desperate and eagerness to return, they broke all doors and gates leading to the offices in the council.

With reference to people of thoughts' opinions, views and analysis, they were of the opinion that the sacked chairmen had no interest of the people to serve at hearts but their prime motives to siphon the accrued millions of naira in the local governments' accounts.

They added that those people did not have fear of God, stressing that if they acknowledge that the service has no financial benefits nor gains, they would not bother to pursue the selfish ambition.