The Chairman of Ojodu Local Council Development Area, Julius Oloro, has described the impeachment notice served on him by the legislators as “politically-motivated.”
Oloro, who spoke at a briefing on Thursday said the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has waded into the crisis.
This, he said, was to ensure harmonious relationship between the Executive and Legislative arms.
The council boss denied ownership of various houses in Ekiti and Lagos states linked to him.
“If I embezzled all the funds in the council for the next ten years, I cannot build such edifices. How much is the allocation we get and the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR)? There was no iota of truth in the ownership of houses linked to me. I had even gone to court to swear to an affidavit dissociating myself from the ownership of the structures,” he said.
Oloro, who described the impeachment notice as political, assured the residents that the issue would soon be resolved amicably.
He explained that his focus after assuming the office was implementing policies and programmes that would be of benefit to residents of the council.
According to him, some people were not pleased by his intimidating achievements since given the mandate to lead the council.
“I have a good relationship with the councillors. All issues are being resolved by the party leaders. Though, we have appeared before the Lagos state House of Assembly to state my side of the story. We can have a disagreement on how we run things in the council and the party has provided an avenue to resolve it. The houses issue was misinformation that was mismanaged. It was politically motivated to malign me,” he said.
Oloro, however, congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari, the APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu, and the leadership in the state for the victory the party recorded during the just concluded bye-elections in the state, saying the victory was made possible due to years of successes recorded by the party.
He noted that the projects embarked upon by his administration were people-oriented.
“Some of the projects were: construction of a new secretariat, construction of Erinosho Street road Aguda, Ogba, Odusami Street road in Ogba axis, and Construction of Abibatu Mogaji Ultra-Modern shopping complex (Formerly known as Ogba Retail Market) in Ogba; an upshot of effective Public-private partnership.
“Also, renovation and commissioning of a block of six classrooms at Ojodu Primary School III, renovation of the first phase of the offices of the councillors, leader and legislative chamber, and rehabilitation of blocks of six classrooms at Oke-Ira primary school, Oke-Ira,” he said.