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The Ondo State House of Assembly has extended by another six months, the tenure of all Eighteen Local Government caretaker chairmen and supervisors.
The extension was informed on a message by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu requiring the elongation of tenure of the chairmen following the expiration of their tenure last month.
The house had three weeks ago announced the dissolution of the caretaker chairmen and their supervisors after the the expiration of their tenure and ordered them to handover to various Directors of local government adminstration in the respective council areas.
It will be recalled that Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu had in October 2017 asked the house to extend the tenure of the caretaker committees by six months following their constitution in March 2017.
Presiding at the Plenary on Thursday, the Speaker of the House, Bamidele Oleyeloogun appealed to all Directors of all the eighteen Local government areas to handover to their chairmen with immediate effect.
The Governor, had on Tuesday inaugurated members of the State Electoral Commission(ODIEC) in preparation for the conduct of the local government election with N2 billion earmarked for it in the 2018 Budget.
YOMI AYELESO, Akure
