 The Ondo State Chapter of the People's Democratic Party PDP has expressed dissatisfaction over the recent appointment of Baba Jalee, the son of the state governor Rotimiya Kiridolu, as the Director-General of the State Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit. The appointment of Baba Jalee was announced via a statement issued by the State Commissioner for Information and Orientation Donald Ojovo. The PDP, in a statement signed by the People's Democratic Party's Publicity Secretary, Kennedy Perete, said the action of the governor amounted to the abuse of office. They also went ahead to allege that the appointment was part of a grand design to finally empty the coffers of the state before Governor Kiridolu returns to Ibadan. Joining us to discuss this is Adi Mola Adiwale, he is a political journalist. Thank you very much Mr Adi Mola for joining us. Let's start with the claims of the People's Democratic Party, it's not just a PDP that's on this table, there are several other people, even leaders of thought who have criticised this move by the state government, but then the governor has come out to justify his son's appointment. What are your thoughts on this? Thank you very much. You see, without some new participation here, because I wouldn't want to come in on the platforms of either being an APP person or a PDP person, but this is simple moral dispute. Do you understand? Now for a sitting governor, in a crime like ours, that you see, to appoint no one other than his own biological son in the same regime he lives as the governor is a moral and normal being. Irrespective of my support for the party, APC, the latest defense by the party for the fact that the guy, the intelligence, has been a supporter, it's been this, it's been that. It is a sham upon the entirety of the understated people. Because if I may say something factually, the concept of accounting teaches independence and independence. How do you think to be accountable as a governor if your own biological son is an appointee in your regime? As an officer in the bank, as an internal controller, or okay, let me go up that, you know, in the bank, our employment above couples working in the same organization because of the shared interest. So for a governor to nominate a son and eventually train him is an abuse of office, is an act of immorality. And it has gone to show to the entire world that the man does not have any control in the human resource component of the entire organization. I was about to ask the question. You just played into my next question because I was going to ask that how does this make the people of Oendo look? Is it the government of Oendo state, including the governor, saying that there are no capable or people who are educated enough to hold that office other than the son of the governor? Let me say something clear. I am from a war. The same constituency of the governor. But I can tell you categorically, the whole of our kingdom will never, by any doubt, of a chance, be in support of this shamp. This is a protest. This is an HL protest on the entirety of Oendo state. How dare you, a speaking governor, get out of this all of the millions of people that make up Oendo state to go again and pick your own son to occupy a position as important as the general. So that means that nobody has to notice it again. It is a sham. It is a charade. It is a strategy. It is a thought to lose the hold of that state. I say it and I am repeating it. And I can call anybody to question. By the time the regime is over, Oendo state will be working on money. But does this not also play down on the credibility of the all-progressive Congress in that state? Because it is just the PDP who is the opposition that is speaking up on this issue. We know that a few leaders have mumbled and grumbled on this particular one. But we have not really seen any person within the APC speak up against this issue. Does this also mean that the all-progressive Congress in Oendo state has no bone of sincerity in them to speak up on this issue of nepotism? Or does it mean that they are okay with it? Hello? Go ahead. You have not said anything outside the book. What we have just advised is the two positions. What you have as the remnant of APC that is dead and gone over this issue in moral sensibility is an affirmation of the fact that the party is dead in Oendo state. Because for a party to come out and tell us that the governor's son was nominated not because he is the son of the governor, but because of his contribution at E that some people else did not make in getting him back to office. Who was E? How many of us knew about this in Oendo state as a contributor to the election or even the initially election of his father? And even if you are doing more than doing more than a movie, the election of his biological father is an over-coefficient compensation for the entire family of the Ake Donu. So now bringing Ake Donu's son back, and you know the white is occupying a very strategic position in the state and now bringing Ake Donu's son in victory on Oendo state. And I can tell you our people are not out of Ake Donu's position. Like I said, as a professional accountant and an internal controller, accountability has been reduced to nothing. Emotional sensibility of the governor is at work and is at play. Because if he is emotional sensible, he will know that this is an act of charm against the will of the people. Finally, before I let you go because our time is almost up, there's something that the government, well, responding or trying to justify this act said, and I'd like to quote him directly. They said, and I quote, this administration has been engaging members of the young generation on whose tender shoulders the future of this great country rests. We will continue to engage worthy youth regardless of the degree of affinity or otherwise only the fit and the proper will join us. So maybe the governor's son does fit into this fit and proper. And I'm wondering what should the young people of Oendo be doing at this moment because as we speak, he's been sworn in alongside other people. But will the people who are young in that state, on whose names or rather on whose behest the government is saying they put this young man into office for, will they sit quietly and let this continue? My dear, what has happened and the position of truth that you have put in is an affirmation of the U.S. health fraud and of the state's recklessness of that state, of that state's government. I'm putting together a case to look at the role of the elected cabinet of the government and then the party's agency. See, I did 15 years in the bank as an internal controller. I can't tell you that there are no more than one million of my size, even in age, that will do better. What has Babaji done? And like I said, if more and more AK Doluru is sensible and sensitive, it would know that austerity will forever be at stake for this recklessness. So they have not done anything and they have nothing whatsoever to project in the case of austerity for this act that they have done. Nobody in the youth carcass of Odukse is in support of this array. It is under the city fraud. And it is a trap again. So look, I said, so look and re-look Odukse, but I clearly don't look. Okay, well, I want to say thank you very much. Adewale Adewale is a political analyst. Thank you so much for speaking on this issue. We appreciate it. Thank you very much. Well, thank you all for staying with us on PLOS Politics tonight. Well, we will leave you with what Nigerians have to say about the president's ability to solve insecurity in the country. I'll see you tomorrow. I am Mary Anacone. Have a good evening. The case of insecurity is not something that can just be undue at once like that. It's a complicated matter. And it's obvious that the president is making some efforts and it is not something that can just be done at once. So let us believe that some of the efforts that have been made will yield fruit. But it's obvious that efforts have been made. So it's just left to different agencies to ensure that they are hard towards what they are doing because it's becoming more complicated almost every day. I don't think so. Why? The reason being is because this is not the beginning and this thing has not started today. It has been starting for a very long time. We've been clamoring on them too. Up to now, they've not been able to do anything. So I don't think it's government issues but it's only got intervention that can really help us out in this case. Well, with the look of things, I'm not sure the government is ready or the president because I expect them to have put a lot of measures in place at the moment to solve insecurity and possibly to put people's mind at rest because people are agitated, you know? We want to do Christmas and New Year with peace of mind with our family, you understand? But many people don't want to travel. Like me, for example, I just want to stay in one place. Of course, I think he's doing his best and I mean, what can one do? You have your security operatives. They are the people that will have to go and confront whoever is creating problems. The president needs to give his support, provide whatever they need. I think it's trying his best. It's like the president is just ignoring the insecurity in Nigeria because every day you hear new news, in different states of something, something happening. I don't think the president is ready to really tackle the issue yet as of now. So it's more like something that the government is just ignoring. And we, itself, in this place, we are kind of in like legos. We are kind of shut off from the news. We don't even know much of what is going on. But when you really take a look at other people that are in other states, like fasted, like she could just say no, that you get to see the reality of things that are going on in Nigeria and it's not a good thing.