The Chairman of the State Caretaker Committee of the APC, Barrister Isaac Ogbobula says Governor Nyesom Wike is planning to appoint the Wife of Hon. Igo Aguma as a substantive Permant Secretary in the Civil service.
Ogbobula said in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, “Against all known Civil Service Rules and bureaucratic procedures for promotions in the Civil Service, Governor Wike seeks to elevate Mrs. Igo Aguma to the level of a Permanent Secretary.”
The Caretaker Committee Chairman alleged that the move is part of a planned “compensation for Igo’s conspiratorial role in causing political nuisance in the APC in Rivers State.”
Part of the statement read, I “I is on record that since 2015, most Civil Servants in Rivers State due for promotion have not been promoted. Wike now seeks to use available top spaces in the Civil Service to play politics to the detriment of deserving State workers.
“Aguma’s wife is not a Director in the State’s Civil service and quite junior in ranking to a whole lot of top Civil Servants who are on the queue for promotion into the Permanent Secretary cadre.
“Wike’s discriminatory tendencies is unacceptable and must be challenged. Rivers State Civil Service is not Wike’s personal property or inheritance and we must not allow him destroy it on the alter of selfish political expediency.
“We are already piqued by the humongous cash and State resources being funnelled to oil the nest of “business men” in the guise of political strategists, only for the State Governor to extend this joke to the core Civil Service of the State by trying to sacrifice merit.”