Senior Special Adviser
to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Physically Challenge Matters,
Tekena Zephanian-Altraide has resigned his appointment.
In a fifteen-page
resignation letter to the Governor, Zephanian-Altraide noted that it appears
that he has been disengaged of his appointment even before his resignation
following the action of the Governor on his office.
Zephanian-Altraide
complained that since his appointment in 2016, his office had never had a
running cost.
He added that he
struggles to pay his staffers their allowances from his personal salary of
about three hundred and twenty-eight thousand Naira.
The former SA
commended the governor for appointing him, adding that, it proved to the world
that people living with disabilities could also handle government positions.
Tekena
Zephanian-Altraide therefore, regretted that even as an SA to a Governor, he
could not pay his father’s medical bill which led to his death in September
since he was owed from July till date.
It is however unknown
if the Governor has accepted or rejected the resignation.