Gov. Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has warned civil servants in
the state against involvement in partisan politics, saying that those found
culpable will be made to face the consequences.
Fayose handed down the warning while addressing the public servants
on Grade level 01-17 at the State's Pavilion, Ado-Ekiti, on Tuesday.
He said civil servants, by their training and orientation,
had no business in party politics, adding that workers’ partisanship in
politics had the tendency of destroying the entire service.
According to him, there is no crime in a particular civil
servant having sympathy for one political party or the other or voting in an
election, explaining that such a scenario will turn out to be something else
when it is done to the extreme.
He said his government had no plan to politicise the civil
service and urged the workers to also keep off partisan politics in their own
interest.
“I am not going to politicise the Ekiti civil service and
any civil servant found contravening this basic rule will be disciplined
accordingly.
“As far as I am concerned, I don’t want to use politics to
distabilise the public service and so, it will be strange if any of you is
encouraging what we are not promoting.”
The governor solicited the support of the civil servants in
providing steady engine room for his administration to succeed and pledged to
always reward hard work, dedication and commitment to service.
He decried the current huge debt profile of the state government
and solicited the support and understanding of the civil servants to enable the
state government to liquidate the debt.
In his remarks, the Head of Service, Dr. Gbenga Faseluka,
commended the civil servants for their perseverance and resilience in the face
of challenges facing them.
He called on them to appreciate the efforts of the state
government in addressing their plights through loyalty and dedication in the
discharge of their duties.
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