Former Governor of Ekiti State,
Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has lambasted Governor Ayodele Fayose over the latter’s
comments and actions about him.
He also described the attempt
being made by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to reclaim power in 2019
as plot to continue to loot the country.
The Minister of Mines and Steel
Development urged Nigerians not to use the current fuel scarcity to rate
President Muhammadu Buhari’s performances.
’What we are witnessing is just
a normal curve in the life of any administration. We will get over it and move
on, but largely President has not disappointed Nigerians,” he said.
The Minister described the panel
of enquiry inaugurated by Fayose to probe his administration as a kangaroo
one, noting that it was an attempt to smear his reputation and render him
unpopular.
“Fayose stock in trade is lying
against someone to score political gains. They started with the probe of N852
million UBEC fund and when they knew they could not go far, they started
concocting lies and said.I looted N17 billion.
“Let t us wait and see who will
go to jail between Fayose and I. I have been out of office and I am still
moving free, but I am sure he won’t be able to walk free on the streets after losing
immunity because of the way he has run the state aground”, he stated.
Addressing the pressmen in Isan
Ekiti in Oye local government area of Ekiti State on Wednesday, Fayemi said
Nigerians would ensure that PDP didn’t return to power because of the high
level of looting it perpetrated while in the saddle.
Fayemi, who didn’t say
categorically whether he is still nursing governorship ambition, said the APC
is very committed to making sure that Ekiti rejoins the league of developing
states by ensuring that the party wins the 2018 governorship poll.
“What the PDP want to come back
and do is stealing. The options for Nigerians in 2019 is to either return to
the old age of criminalization and brigandage by voting for the PDP, because
nothing to convince Nigerians that they have changed with the shenanigans that
characterised their national convention and poor performances by their
governors.
“Up to now, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan
and his henchmen have not apologized about how they ran the country aground.
So, there is nothing to suggest that PDP remains a credible alternative to APC
in 2019”, he said.
Fayemi further discountenanced
attacks by his political adversaries that he has not used his ministerial
position for the benefit of the state.
”What I have done is measurable
and clear. This government has began the construction of a federal secretariat
and housing estate in Ekiti; the rail-line was extended to this state in
the FG’s proposal due to my intervention.
“4,000 Ekiti indigenes are
benefitting from N-power and very soon it will go up to 12,000. The proposal for
kaolin exploration in Ekiti has just been completed; that of the bauxite will
begin soon.
“President Buhari’s government is
planning to set up a cottage industry in Ekiti for the sake of the solid
minerals exploration and I have enlisted small scale miners around Ijero Ekiti
for them to benefit from the N5b loan set up by the Bank of Industry”, he
revealed.
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i don't expect less from the hounourable minister who out his wickedness and in-human nature plung the generations of Ekiti people into untold hardship and debt despite the fat allocation and other releases being recieved while in the office. saying nothing bad in the Buhari regim just like the way he see nothing bad in what he has done.If u don't know let me enlighten you sir,The PDP you are mentionin met the price of crude oil less than $20/b and for the first 8years, the price did not go beyond $50/b. Yet they en-mass wealth for the nation to the tune of over $60billion foreign reserve, $30billion excess crude account, increament of salary, fuel price less than N80/liter, salary paid as at when due, no hardship,output/b/day less than 2million, no recession instead high standard of living every where and many others. Your blind criticism of the opposition PDP did not make you think right again
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