{"id":137229,"date":"2024-11-06T21:27:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc"},"modified":"2024-11-06T22:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T21:31:36","slug":"obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc","title":{"rendered":"Obaseki converting political appointees to civil servants, 6 days to hand over- APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Edo State Governor-elect, Senator Monday Okpebholo has raised the alarm over alleged conversion of political appointees to full time civil servants by the outgoing governor, Godwin Obaseki, six days to the end of his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Kassim Afegbua, member, All Progressives Congress, APC, transition committee made the allegation in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Benin City.<\/p>\n<p>Afegbua alleged that the political appointees that are being converted to full time civil servants are Senior Special Assistants and Special Assistants.<\/p>\n<p>He said 186 of such appointees were appointed by the governor in September 2024, thereby bloating the numbers of aides around him.<\/p>\n<p>He also alleged that the outgoing governor has just commenced the process of absorbing another 152 aides to compound the problem.<\/p>\n<p>The APC transition committee member, said interview is presently ongoing as part of the governor\u2019s effort to overburden the incoming administration with huge recurrent expenditure, when he (Obaseki) was aware that the state is already bugged down by a huge debt burden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has come to our notice that Governor Obaseki is presently converting his Senior Special Assistants (SSA) and Special Assistants (SA) into full time civil service staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Obaseki, for eight years refused to recruit civil servants to fill up vacant positions and energize the civil service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also refused to set up the Civil Service Commission until two weeks ago, in the twilight of his failed administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are alerting the public to be aware of Governor Obaseki\u2019s deliberate engagement to stifle the resources of the state and pass on huge salaries and overhead to the incoming administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not only a wicked act but a huge disservice to the incoming administration of Senator Monday Okpebholo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have repeatedly stated the position of the incoming administration that anybody who is wrongly recruited or surreptitiously absorbed into the Civil Service, with backdated appointment letters would be relieved of his or her responsibility,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Afegbua opined that recruitment into Civil Service must not only follow due process, there has to be a need for such persons who are so recruited.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Edo State Governor-elect, Senator Monday Okpebholo has raised the alarm over alleged conversion of political appointees to full time civil servants by the outgoing governor, Godwin Obaseki, six days to the end of his tenure. Prince Kassim Afegbua, member, All Progressives Congress, APC, transition committee made the allegation in a statement made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":137228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[34,254,697],"class_list":["post-137229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-obaseki"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Obaseki converting political appointees to civil servants, 6 days to hand over- APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Edo State Governor-elect, Senator Monday Okpebholo has raised the alarm over alleged conversion of political appointees ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obaseki converting political appointees to civil servants, 6 days to hand over- APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Edo State Governor-elect, Senator Monday Okpebholo has raised the alarm over alleged conversion of political appointees ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-11-06T20:27:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-11-06T21:31:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/sm_1730916055.998997.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"769\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Obaseki converting political appointees to civil servants, 6 days to hand over- APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-11-06T20:27:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-11-06T21:31:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc\"},\"wordCount\":372,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/sm_1730916055.998997.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obaseki\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-converting-political-appointees-to-civil-servants-6-days-to-hand-over-apc\",\"name\":\"Obaseki converting political appointees to civil servants, 6 days to hand over- APC - 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