The Accord Party on Wednesday kicked against the extension of the tenure of local government chairmen in the 33 local government areas of Oyo State by the state House of Assembly.

The party's chairman, Bashir Lawal while addressing newsmen in Ibadan alleged that the failure of the Abiola Ajimobi- led government to formally constitute state electoral committee that will midwife conduct of local government polls was flagrant abuse of the constitution. Lawal who was flanked by the National Secretary of the party, Nureni Adisa and Women Leader in Oyo, Mrs Funmi Akinpelu, described as an aberration tenure elongation of appointed rather than elected chairmen for two and half years in the life of the

present administration.

Lawal who disclosed that there was no pending litigation stopping Governor Ajimobi from constituting the state electoral committee, said the tenure of the committee constituted by former governor Adebayo Akala had elapsed with their severance allowances paid to them.

The Accord party chairman urged the governor to honourably resign if he could no longer uphold the constitution he swore to protect. The party boss who said the All Progressive Congress was afraid of defeat at the polls, asked the governor to conduct a free, fair and credible election that will usher in a democratically elected chairman. "The government is two and half years old and Governor Abiola Ajimobi has not deemed it fit to put in place an elected government at the local government. That is an aberration of the constitution. "The governor is hiding under the pretext that there is litigation though we all know that in actual fact there is nothing like litigation," the party said.

According to him, the OYSIEC constituted by Governor Rashidi Ladoja went to court and the court gave judgment and they have been paid all their severance allowances and outstanding salaries."The OYSIEC inaugurated by Former Governor Akala has spent their five years so the issue of litigation does not arise. Let us even go with his argument, there is litigation against the civil service commission, there is litigation against the Judicial Service Commission and there is litigation against OYSIEC as claimed by Governor Ajimobi. But if the Governor can flout the court processes to put in place members of the Judicial Service Commission and Civil Service Commission, I don't seen why the governor cannot put in place the Oyo State Electoral Commission.

" And if he could with the support of the state House of Assembly elongated the tenure of the caretaker committees by another six months thereby flouting the constitution, I think it is honourable for him to resign," he said.