Governor of Ekiti State, Chief
Ayodele Fayose, yesterday told the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state
that it should be prepared to wait for more years in the trenches as Ekiti
people would not vote for it in the July 14, 2018 governorship election.
Fayose, who spoke through his
Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, in a press statement in Ado-Ekiti,
said the party was fond of ranting over what it knew was quite impossible and
advised the APC to stop day dreaming.
The governor asked,” How can the
APC win? How can it convince Ekiti people that it will do better if it gets
back to power ? What meaningful project does the Fayemi administration has to
its credit for the APC candidate to campaign with? May be the huge debt it
plunged the state into. Certainly, no teachers will like a return of the APC
government in Ekiti.”
The governor was reacting to
comments credited to the State Deputy Chairman of the APC, Mrs Kemi Olaleye,
urging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to prepare for defeat as it was not
willing to remain in the trenches for another four years.
Her statement, “We are determined
to win the coming election. We will use every legal and constitutional means,
adopt the right strategy to win the July 14 governorship election, we will send
the PDP back to the trenches.”
Describing the four years that
the party has been in the opposition as far too long, Olaleye, while receiving
executive members of the state’s Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of
Journalists (NUJ) in her office in Ado-Ekiti, said the party had lost its
patience.
However, Fayose described the
APC’s statements as mere wishful thinking that would not hold any water.
“For APC to be saying that it
would deploy every power within its means and other strategies to win the
coming July 14, 2018 election is a careless display of desperation that is
unbecoming of an opposition party that has since lost relevance both at the
centre and in the state. For the avoidance of doubt, let me assure them that
they will remain in the trenches as opposition figures in the state for many
years.
” Ekiti people are now wiser and
won’t waste their votes on selfish characters whose stock in trade is to
continually waste funds meant to develop human and material resources of the
state on white elephant projects that only exist on papers and the imagination
of their members.
“In 2010, the party had, through
the back door and what is known as ‘Salami-gate’, come into power and foisted
itself on the people. That was a lifetime opportunity they would have used to
their advantage and win the hearts of the people by providing impactful
leadership, but they blew the golden chance and in spite of being blessed with
fat allocations from Abuja.
“The administration devoted its
time to unneccesary victimisation of poor teachers in the name of politically
motivated test. The teachers who they claimed were not competent to work under
their administration are the same that have coached the students from the state
to come first in NECO exams in 2016 and 2017.
” Let me assure them expressly
that Ekiti people will not tolerate rigging with federal might in the state,
neither are they gullible puppets that can be bought over by tokens. They will
vote PDP and Professor Kolapo Olusola and defend their votes. That is an
assurance I give to the APC come 2018,” he said.
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