The Peoples Democratic party (PDP), Benue State chapter has said, the arbitrary sack order on Benue civil servants and those issued earlier to heads of agencies and parastatals in the state is a gateway to possible litigations which will not be in the interest of the Revd. Fr. Hyacinth Alia led administration.
This is even as the party asked the governor to without delay rescind the sack order issued to thousands of civil servants in the state, to save his administration the ill wind which the action is bound to generate.
The PDP acting chairman, Isaac Mffo who made the party’s position known during a press conference in Makurdi also described the sacking of the last minute recruitment, appointments and promotions of workers by the out-gone governor Samuel Ortom as unlawful, insensitive and callous.
Mffo explained that the affected civil servants were given lawful appointments into the state civil service having fulfilled all statutory requirements and until this directive were entitled to all the rights, privileges and protections guaranteed them under the labour laws of the state.
According to him “this is to say that loss of such rights, privileges and protections cannot be at the whim of anyone, no matter how highly placed, including the governor, but can only be for reasons prescribed under same laws, which do not include the action taken by Governor Alia.
“The insensitivity in the Benue State governor’s action becomes more glaring when viewed against the backdrop of the untold hardship which Nigerians were subjected to under the recently expired president Muhammadu Buhari regime in the forms of catastrophic economic mismanagement and such insecurity as directly threatened the country’s sovereignty.”
The PDP said, “Governor Alia, being a direct offshoot of the cruel and visionless Buhari regime, should be threading cautiously as governor of Benue State so as not to aggravate the pains and sufferings inflicted on the people of the state by that regime”
While condemning the act, the PDP chairman said the governor need to be reminded that to the eleventh hour of his tenure, the out-gone president, Buhari made appointments into the federal civil service.
