JUST IN: Why Obaseki’s Special Adviser on Strategy resigned
Stephen Abolo, Abuja
The Special Adviser to Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki on Strategy, Performance and Project Monitoring, Mrs. Sarah Esangbedo Ajose-Adeogun has turned in her letter of resignation on Thursday this week, because of a raging battle she had with other members of the Governor’s kitchen cabinet and his main consultant from Lagos
The former Special Adviser, “madam Sarah” as she is popularly called, in a post on her Facebook page said “l came, l saw and l conquered”, in validating her resignation as an Adviser to the Obaseki Government.
It iis said that she became a part of the Governor’s kitchen cabinet after joining the Government from her previous role as a manager in Shell, Nigeria’s leading oil company.
Her resignation is not unconnected with the tribal battle of supremacy and survival of the fittest currently rocking the outgoing Obaseki-led government. Her office was once shut by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Osaigbovo Iyoha, because she refused to yield her seat in a commercial flight to the Governor.
When she turned in her resignation letter yesterday, the Governor told her to hand-over to one of his business consultants, Mr. Chris Osarumwense of Grienfields Nig Ltd. Madam Sarah was against the idea of the State Government paying billions of Edo tax payers money to Mr. Osarumwense’s company Greenfields, in the name of Edo State Civil Service transformation.
Source said both of them had a running battle that lasted for over two years. Recall that before the Governor dissolved the Edo State Executive Council on June 4 last year, two of his Commissioners, namely Joseph Eboigbe in charge of Finance and budget and Jonathan Lawani in charge of Special Duties had turned in their letters of resignation.
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