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Ekiti Teachers React To Sack Threat Over Voter Cards Submission

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Mar 9, 2022.

Ekiti teachers react to sack threat as they vow not to surrender their voter cards to Kayode Fayemi
They frowned at the silent attitude of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) over the matter

EKO HOT BLOG reports that some teachers, who were allegedly ordered by the Ekiti State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) to surrender their voter cards, have dared the sack threat.

In their reactions, they boldly told TESCOM that they were ready for sack rather than allow their voter cards to be used for an easy win by the All Progressive Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate, Mr Biodun Oyebanji.

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This online media platform gathered that the teachers, who spoke with the spokesman of the Build Back Better, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado Ekiti last Saturday, said they were ready for the worse from the Kayode Fayemi led administration.

Build Back Better is an international Pan Ekiti Movement, campaigning for the election of Asiwaju Segun Oni.

The teachers frowned at the silent attitude of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) over the matter, as they said, “if the NUT cannot protect us from the big stick of the APC-led government which has threatened us with dismissal from service if we refuse to cooperate with the APC rigging agenda, we also are ready for the worse from the Kayode Fayemi administration.

“Our voter cards are our weapon to vote out tyrannical, clueless, incompetent and oppressive APC government in Ekiti, only death can snatch the voter’s cards from us. We are ready for victimization, demotion, indiscriminate transfer and sack. The action of the APC to collect people’s voter cards is an indication that the party doesn’t believe in a free and fair election to get to power.

“This political harassment on the part of government smacks of self-defeating attitudes when the election is still more than three months away.”

The teachers further stated, “If the APC government has already accepted defeat, we will rather agree to be sacked, but vote according to our conscience and then come back to our jobs with a new government in October 2022

“But the question we are asking is, “when did the education officers become politicians and agents of the APC? As teachers, we still know our rights to vote for the political parties and candidates of our choice. In a situation where the teachers are treated without honour, dignity and respect, where their statutory rights and benefits are not given, the election time is a good payback time and we shall not shy away from it.

“We know our true friends and we know the fake sympathizers. That the father and mother of BAO were said to be teachers is not a sufficient reason that his administration will be teacher’s friendly. What has he done for teachers when he had the opportunities. We know our friends and that is who we have decided to vote for on Saturday, June 18, 2022.

“Please nobody should harass us. we deserve to be respected as fellow stakeholders in the Ekiti political affairs. No sacrifices are too great to pay by using our votes to liberate Ekiti from her political neo-colonialists.”

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