A governorship hopeful in Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Otunba Emmanuel Fayose, has berated past governors of the state for endorsing Governor Abiodun Oyebanji for second term.
In a statement he issued in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday, Otunba Fayose described the reported endorsement as selfish and against the interest of the people of the state.
“The reported endorsement of Governor Oyebanji by his predecessors in office, mainly former governors Niyi Adebayo, Peter Ayodele Fayose, Olusegun Oni and Kayode Fayemi, is not only shameful but selfish and self-serving.
“I am making this assertion based on the current realities in the state, which has made Ekiti an underachiever in the comity of states in the country,” he said
Commenting further on the development, Otunba Fayose stated that the prime motive of the endorsement is the common patrimony of the state, which he said they (the past governors) have hijacked since 1999.
“Since 1999, every administration in Ekiti State has betrayed the people, especially our suffering youth and abandoned senior citizens.
“Healthcare is in ruins. Roads are death traps. Unemployment is at its worst peak. Not a single major investor has been attracted in 25 years.”
He said,” These former governors did not build or attract a single factory to the state, saying the youths are on okada. He said Ekiti people are very hardworking yet cannot afford one meal per day, coupled with the bad roads across the state. Unemployment keeps increasing on a daily basis with security challenges, lack of good health care, no stable electricity, no water, etc. He said, “What are they endorsing if not failure?”
“Yet today, the same failed leaders under the banner of the Ekiti Former Governors Association, with their loudmouth spokesperson, former Governor Ayo Fayose, are shamelessly rallying behind another incompetent administration.”
“These guys are enjoying their monthly benefits regularly as paypack, yet the present governor opened the state’s treasury for them as a conduit pipe to their advantage at the detriment of our people,” he said.
Otunba Fayose however urged the people of the state to stay vigilant in their quest for a new leadership paradigm which his aspiration symbolizes.
