2014: Fayemi donates vehicles to ACN leaders
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi
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Governor
Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State on Friday donated some buses to the youth
and women’s wings of the Action Congress of Nigeria in the state, in a
move that suggests that he might be strategising ahead of the 2014
governorship election.
The governor made the
donation at the ACN secretariat on Ajilosun Street in Ado-Ekiti, capital
of the state, after meeting with the executive of the party led by the
chairman, Chief Jide Awe.
Fayemi advised the
leaders of the party to stand up and defend his administration by
enlightening the people of the state on the reason why the government
was implementing its policies.
The leaders of the ACN
in the state, led by former Governor Niyi Adebayo, Speaker of the House
of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin and the party chairman, have endorsed
Fayemi for a second term in office.
The governor was
endorsed on December 30 at the residence of Adebayo in Iyin-Ekiti, even
as a member of the House of Representatives from the town, Mr. Opeyemi
Bamidele, was rumoured to be nursing an ambition to run for governor in
2014.
Sources close to
Bamidele told journalists that he would contest in 2014. But Fayemi and
Bamidele have yet to declare their intention publicly.
Earlier Awe said the endorsement of Fayemi by the party’s leadership was based on performance and well earned by the latter.
Commenting on the recent
dissolution of his cabinet, the governor said that there was nothing
wrong in his action, adding that the time was already ripe for a review.
He said that he would consult widely before reconstituting the cabinet.
Also Fayemi dismissed
the rumour that his deputy, Mrs. Funmilayo Olayinka had resigned her
appointment, while denying that he was ferried out of the country in an
air ambulance.
He described Ekiti as
the number one rumour mill in Africa, saying that rumour-peddling must
be discouraged in order to give room for more development in the state.
“We are about to enter a
season of politics. It is the duty of the party’s leaders to defend the
decisions of the government. They shouldn’t be the ones telling the
people in the communities that he/she doesn’t know what is happening in
the government,” he said.
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ReplyDeletemmhh, it is interesting to know that Gov, Fayemi has taken his desperate, unceremonious, and untimely second term ambition to a new level. Fayemi is substituting governance for democracy; and his desperate attempts to work his way back into the hearts of the people who have rejected him is quite alarming, and is becoming a concern for some ACN members because he (Fayemi) is destroying the party. The Governor is donating buses to ACN leaders at the same time when he can't pay workers' salaries, and when local government workers are at home. Lets recall that this same Gov. Fayemi toured all the 16 local governments back in Oct. and Nov. of 2012 and gave each ward (of course the money was meant for the ACN members/leaders in those wards) One Million Naira (N1,000,000); there are 177 wards, totalling One Hundred and Seventy Seven Millions (N177, 000, 000). As if that was not enough, barely a month after, in December of 2012, Fayemi gave each of the 177 wards an end of the year gift of Five NHundred Thousand Naira (N500, 000), totalling Eighty Eight Million, Five Hundred Thousand (N88, 500, 000). He also gave Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500, 000) to the youths in each of the 16 local governments, totalling Eight Million Naira (N8,000, 000); he gave the women in each local government Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500, 000), totalling Eight Million Naira (N8, 000. 000); he gave the elders in each local government Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500, 000), totalling Eight Million Naira (N8,000, 000). In summary, Gov. Fayemi gave an end of the year "gift" of One Hundred and Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N112, 500, 000) in Dec. of 2012 after giving a local-governments-tour gifts of One Hundred and Seventy Seven Million Naira (N177, 000, 000) in October and November of the same year. So, he gave a total gift of Two Hundred and Eighty Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N289, 500, 000) to ACN in the last three months of 2012 only. These and some other reasons are why it is very hard for every right-thinking citizen of Ekiti, and some ACN members in particular, to comprehend why Gov. Fayemi started the year again by donating buses to yet ACN leaders barely one week into 2013. Is this how the Governor wants to spend the Twenty Five Billion Naira (N25, 000, 000, 000) loan he took out in the name of the State? I hope our leaders in this State are paying attention to this. Ex-Governor Bamidele Olumiluha where are you (even if your brother Niyi Adebayo has traded his ingterity and compromised his democratic stance), Baba Awojolu where are you? Sen. James Kolawole, Chief Afe Babalola where are you all? This cannot continue indefinitely! It is high time somebody called Fayami to order. There is a deperate and urgent need for him to separate politics (which is characterized by narrow political interest) from governance (which is informed by the larger interest of the people). Not even the previous governors, Ayo Fayose or Segun Oni, donated money like this. Even his so-called Social Security Scheme for the elderly has ACN members as 90% of its beneficiaries. Gov. Fayemi should remember some of the Second Republic governors like late Bola Ige (Osun), Alhaji Jakande (Lagos), Chief Olabisi Onabanjo (Oyo), Ambrose Ali (Bendel), and several others who went to jail for unjustly enriching their political parties. What Fayemi is doing is an embarrassment to the Human Rights Community, which he claims to be a part of; and it is a typical example of governance by larges. Only a government that has run out of ideas will resolve to engaging and attempting to buy people by larges, and that is what we are witnessing in Ekiti right now. Ekiti kete o, inja ronu ra o. Abarin agbehin o. Ire o!