The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of implementing policies that threaten the development needs of Ekiti people, saying his rice gift is a deliberate and callous incentive to lock people out of government-promoted self-sustaining schemes that can make people the creators of wealth to take care of their development needs.
But the governor in a swift reaction, said the party lacked moral rights to criticise his government policies, having run the state aground in its four years of Dr Kayode Fayemi’s reign.
The APC also accused the governor of failing to pay workers salary 192 hours after he made the promise to pay in 24 hours.
A statement by APC’s Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, regretted that instead of promoting policies that would take Ekiti people out of poverty, the governor was busy removing attention from self-sustaining schemes by distributing one kilogramme rice for one-day feeding need of a family.
“What the governor is doing is wickedness to the people by distributing one kilo rice for one-day need of the few out of millions living in abject poverty at the time more purposeful administrators all over the world are setting up self-sustaining schemes that permanently address poverty problems among the masses.
‘’The dehumanisation of Ekiti people by Fayose must stop,” the the APC spokesman said, stressing that it is the restoration and promotion of Ekiti core values of hard work, honesty and thirst for self-fulfillment and development that should be the driving force of a genuine lover of Ekiti people for them to enjoy real development,’’
APC lacks moral right— Fayose
Meantime, Fayose has said the APC as a party lacked moral rights to criticise his government policies, having ran the State aground in its four years of Kayode Fayemi’s reign.
Fayose, who reacted to the APC’s criticism of his stomach infrastructure policy through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said “It is preferable to give the people what to eat than spending billions of borrowed fund to build hilltop government house meant for just one family as done by the APC government.”
The governor asked the APC the benefits derivable from the pavilion, government house, civic centre and other white elephant projects that the party used borrowed fund to execute.
He said; “Here is a party that used borrowed fund to plant flowers in Ado Ekiti and none of the flowers can be seen anywhere in the State capital talking about our government’s policies not being developmental.
“Oba Adejugbe General Hospital, Ado Ekiti was almost completed before Fayemi assumed office. That hospital was not completed throughout the four years of APC government. They even went to the ridiculous level of commissioning the hospital with its inside yet to be painted and no single bed provided.
“Today, Ekiti State is struggling to meet its financial obligations to the people because of the senseless and wasteful financial management of the State by the APC government, with billions of naira loans left unpaid.
“However, despite the huge debt burden that they left behind, we have remained faithful to our promises to the people. We have paid workers salaries as at when due, except April salary that we started paying last week Friday.”
Fayose’s criticism of Oni, Omirin lacks depth – Speaker’s aide
Also, factional Speaker, Dr Adewale Omirin’s Special Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, has reacted to Governor Fayose’s media aide, Idowu Adelusi, over his boss over-bloated popularity rating, saying comparing Fayose with former Governor Segun Oni and blaming Dr Adewale Omirin for Ekiti crisis is turning history to fiction and unconscionable beatification of the unholy in a reckless political brinkmanship.
“It is amusing that Adelusi is talking about winning election by his boss on two occasions, forgetting that Nigerians can still recollect the circumstances that threw Fayose up on the two occasions.
“The first time, Fayose was a beneficiary of a “do or die” political fraud in the South West when he benefited from a mindless rigging coordinated by the Federal Government.
“The second time was more daring, with thousands of federal troops seizing Ekiti State to enable Fayose win. This is apart from the revelations in Ekitigate tape where Fayose himself said he collected INEC soft copies that he printed for his election.
“It is baffling that a media aide would come in the open to celebrate these frauds as befitting trophies that must be showcased through the media to the world,” Olujobi said.