By Abraham Ogbodo
I have an award for good governance
to give and the choice of a winner is between Governors Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State
and Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti
State . One is APC and the
other PDP. On this alone, I am seeking to be properly guided in this difficult
choice to escape the charge of partisanship. It will also be unwieldy if too
many factors are loaded into the assessment. I have therefore limited the scope
to recent happenings, like the way the two governors have engaged workers in
their respective states.
First, Kaduna
State . Governor el-Rufai
woke up one morning and sacked 22,000 primary school teachers in the state.
Less than a week after and when the furor of the first massive sack had not
settled, there was a follow up with the sack of more than 4,000 workers across
the 23 local government councils in the state.
*Govs Fayose and El-Rufai |
Altogether, some 26,000 persons were made jobless (and perhaps,
homeless too) in less than two weeks. According to the governor, the sacked
workers had been profiled and found to be grossly unfit for public sector
operations in Kaduna
State . Naturally, the
Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) failed to appreciate the argument of Governor
el-Rufai that the 22,000 teachers failed basic test for competence and had
become more of an affliction on than a solution to the pupils. The council
workers were mainly sacked for redundancy.