Victor Kolade, an All
Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirant in Ekiti State has described
the state Governor, Ayodele Fayose as the most wasteful governor in the history
of the state.
Kolade said Fayose’s stomach
infrastructure was nothing but a fraud, adding that people are still hungry in
the state.
Addressing journalists in Abuja,
on Wednesday, Kolade stated that Fayose was attempting to build “a bridge that
leads to nowhere.”
Kolade said, “Ekiti state was
created in October 1996, but one thing that is certain is that there is no
tangible development. You cannot see an improvement.
“Anybody who visited the state
when it was created and now, would agree with me that there is no substantial
development.
“The infrastructure that the
governor is talking about is a farce. What he is talking about stomach
infrastructure is nothing but a fraud. One thing I have always told my audience
is that the human capital in Ekiti is not developed.
“The sitting governor has done a
bridge and has not completed it. As of today, he has spent N20 billion and has
not completed it. He keeps on reviewing the cost.
“If you want to go the Ghadaffi
way and you divide this money by the 2.5 million people in Ekiti, each of us
would be entitled to about N4 million.
“Now, if you take N1.6 billion
for instance and give N100 million to each of the 16 local governments and then
form co-operatives, you then ask people to access the loans, you would have
created more millionaires in the state.
“The bridge is so long that no
one will even use it except few people travelling very far because underneath
it, there are so many easy outlets that motorists can use.
“The three problems we have are;
government is the only employer of labour. There are no factories. If you do
not work with the government, you work in the hotel, filling station, the saw
mill or you are an ‘Okada’ rider. It is mostly a civil service state.
“If we had successive governments
and they were not able to discern that this burden should be taken off the
shoulders of government, then what are we talking about? Successive governments
in Ekiti state have failed.
“The second problem we have is
hunger. We farm so much but so well we are hungry. It is like 90 percent of
everybody in the state is a farmer even while doing government work, but hunger
is still prevalent in the land.
“You remember how someone was
cooking, went inside in the house and by the time she came out, the food had
been stolen from the fire. It happened in Ekiti state.
“It is like this because there is
no government interference in farming. Farmers till the ground hopelessly. They
farm on lands that have been farmed consistently by several generations earlier
on.
“Thirdly, the behavioural
attitude of an average Ekiti person is going down the drain. Most of the youths
now take to drugs. The social order in Ekiti is bad. There is so much to be
done”.
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Leave Fayose alone is the only governor who will come out and tell you to your face nothing but the truth
ReplyDeleteFayose is the man of the people, go home and sleep
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