7-day demolition notice, a panic move’

Former governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, has described as unworkable the seven-day demolition notice given to owners of houses built on water paths in Ibadan.
A statement signed by the media aide of former Governor Alao-Akala, Prince Dotun Oyelade,  said the pronouncement was made on the spur of the moment because the   governor did not know the number of houses to be affected, neither is he in custody of other necessary logistics and carrying out a demolition of that magnitude barely two weeks after the flood disaster would leave thousands of more people homeless and aggravate the already bad situation.
“A gubernatorial policy statement should not be hastily made; at all times, it should be a product of sober and well thought-out policy.
“Obviously, Governor Abiola Ajimobi was trying to make up for his scandalous abstention from duty for five days after the most damaging flood wreaked havoc in his state but we suggest he should get on with the job instead of lying on his predecessor.
Meanwhile, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Oyo State chapter, has said that it sees the reaction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state as a manifestation of the party’s frustration.
The party stated this in a release signed by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Mathew Oyedokun.
According to the party, at a time when what is expected from all people of goodwill is sobriety and sympathy for the victims of the flood disaster that wreaked havoc in Ibadan, the PDP is trying to score what it called “cheap publicity and cheap propaganda” from the loss of lives of the people of the state.
Oyedokun urged the state PDP to suspend what it called “its usual broth of reckless partisanship” for the moment and allow the spirits of the dead to rest in peace, stating that the party stands to gain nothing from this “unnecessary recrimination” and trying to pass buck when, according to it, “the dumbest person in the state knows that the flood is one of the several manifestations of the inept government that the Alao-Akala government ran for four years.”