{"id":60912,"date":"2022-03-09T17:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ekiti-2022-teachers-dare-sack-threat-vow-not-to-surrender-voter-cards-to-fayemi"},"modified":"2022-03-09T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T16:17:23","slug":"ekiti-2022-teachers-dare-sack-threat-vow-not-to-surrender-voter-cards-to-fayemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ekiti-2022-teachers-dare-sack-threat-vow-not-to-surrender-voter-cards-to-fayemi","title":{"rendered":"Ekiti 2022: Teachers dare sack threat, vow not to surrender voter cards to Fayemi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>As the race to Oke Ayoba, the Ekiti State Government House gathers momentum, some teachers who were allegedly ordered by the Ekiti State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) to surrender their voter cards to be used for an easy win by the All Progressive Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate, Mr Biodun Oyebanji have told TESCOM that they were ready for sack rather than to surrender their cards.<\/p>\n

The teachers who spoke with Idowu Adelusi, the spokesman of the Build Back Better, an international Pan Ekiti Movement campaigning for the election of Asiwaju Segun Oni, in Ado Ekiti last Saturday, said they were ready for the worse from the Kayode Fayemi administration.<\/p>\n

The teachers who frowned at the silent attitude of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) over the matter said, \u201cif the NUT cannot protect us from the big stick of the APC-led government which has threatened us with dismissal from service if we refuse to cooperate with the APC rigging agenda, we also are ready for the worse from the Kayode Fayemi administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur voter cards are our weapon to vote out tyrannical, clueless, incompetent and oppressive APC government in Ekiti, only death can snatch the voter\u2019s cards from us. We are ready for victimization, demotion, indiscriminate transfer and sack. The action of the APC to collect people\u2019s voter cards is an indication that the party doesn\u2019t believe in a free and fair election to get to power.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis political harassment on the part of government smacks of self-defeating attitudes when the election is still more than three months away.\u201d<\/p>\n

The teachers continued, \u201cIf the APC government has already accepted defeat, we will rather agree to be sacked, but vote according to our conscience and then come back to our jobs with a new government in October 2022<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the question we are asking is, \u201cwhen did the education officers become politicians and agents of the APC? As teachers, we still know our rights to vote for the political parties and candidates of our choice. In a situation where the teachers are treated without honour, dignity and respect, where their statutory rights and benefits are not given, the election time is a good payback time and we shall not shy away from it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know our true friends and we know the fake sympathizers. That the father and mother of BAO were said to be teachers is not a sufficient reason that his administration will be teacher\u2019s friendly. What has he done for teachers when he had the opportunities. We know our friends and that is who we have decided to vote for on Saturday, June 18, 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease nobody should harass us. we deserve to be respected as fellow stakeholders in the Ekiti political affairs. No sacrifices are too great to pay by using our votes to liberate Ekiti from her political neo-colonialists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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