“When a governor now roams the street, eating poff poff or akara, abusing someone as old as his father and wishing him dead even when the person he is fighting has never at any point insulted him. When you have a governor that has no initiative than to go to Abuja at the end of the month to collect the state allocation, divide it, change his own to dollars for keeps and bring the rest to Ekiti to share in N200 with a kongo of rice to the people, then you know there is a serious problem,” Fayose slammed.
The leadership of All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, and a pressure group in love with Ekiti progress and development have declared their support for Senator Babafemi Ojudu, who is the Special Adviser to the President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, to contest in the coming 2018 gubernatorial election.
Chairman of the pressure group, Mr. Femi Ajiniran, said the time to get a credible person to lift Ekiti state from its present sorry state is now.
Ajiniran said, “We need people that can create wealth at this point. And this is why Ojudu has to listen to the yearning voice of the people and run in the coming gubernatorial poll in Ekiti State. If Ojudu fails to declare, I will pack my load and go back to Lagos.
“We are pursuing his emergence as the next governor of Ekiti State as a project. We are going to be loyal to him. We shall feature prominently in the campaign. Ojudu is liberal; he is for everybody across party line. So, we are going to build on his personality. We shall hold vigils for him. We shall ensure his victory.”
On his part, Ojudu lamented the present situation whereby able bodied adults have no viable jobs to do other than to roam the streets and beg for money.
He said: “When a governor now roams the street, eating poff poff or akara, abusing someone as old as his father and wishing him dead even when the person he is fighting has never at any point insulted him.
“When you have a governor that has no initiative than to go to Abuja at the end of the month to collect the state allocation, divide it, change his own to dollars for keeps and bring the rest to Ekiti to share in N200 with a kongo of rice to the people, then you know there is a serious problem.
“Ekiti people are very civil. Ekiti people are hardworking. My father was a worker at the Odua Textile, Ado Ekiti where he was earning 30 pounds.
“It was with this meager amount he sent me to school. He never stole anybody’s money. That was the way we were brought up and that is why many of us cannot steal.
“Many other states, like Ebonyi, Cross Rivers and others have keyed into the programme and they are getting substantial aids through the Central Bank of Nigeria.
“The Federal Government has another programme where they assist farmers to clear their farms free of charge. But our governor is not interested in all of these.
“He is not interested because the money for the project goes direct into the account of the appointed caterers and not to the state government. He has not shown interest even when a state as close as Osun is benefitting.”
Meanwhile, not less than 36 chieftains of the Ekiti state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were jostling for the party’s ticket for the 2018 governorship election.
The aspirants have not officially declared their interest, but majority of them are intensifying their efforts in wooing party leaders both in the state and the Abuja to clinch the APC ticket.
