Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has dissolved the State Executive Council with immediate effect, retaining only a select group of commissioners and special advisers.
The announcement was made on Monday through a statement issued by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Habibat Adubiaro, and circulated to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti. The statement instructed all affected commissioners and special advisers to hand over to the permanent secretary or the most senior civil servant in their respective ministries, departments, and agencies.
Governor Oyebanji expressed appreciation to the outgoing council members for their service and wished them success in their future endeavours. The dissolution, however, does not affect the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, as well as the Commissioners for Health and Human Services; Agriculture and Food Security; Education; Works; and Trade, Investment, Industry and Cooperatives.
Also exempted from the shake-up are the Special Advisers on Special Education and Social Inclusion and Lands, Survey and e-GIS. In addition, all Directors General who are members of the State Executive Council will retain their positions, including the Director General of the Office of Transformation and Service Delivery (OTSD), the Director General of SDGs and Project Monitoring, and the Director General of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP).