All Progressives Congress (APC) Chieftains in Ekiti State , Hon Opeyemi Bamidele and Dr Olusegun Osinkolu , have said the victory of Governor Kayode Fayemi at the election petition tribunal will spur him into action to be able to develop the state and make it a pride of all.
They described the verdict of the Tribunal that gave Fayemi a clean bill and dismissed insinuation that the last year’s governorship election was rigged as an impetus needed at this time to catalyse the governor into action and shame the critics of the ruling government.
The Justice Suleiman Belgore- led Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Monday dismissed the petition filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenging the governor’s victory for lack of merit.
In his congratulatory message to Fayemi in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, Bamidele saluted the people of the state for standing by the governor during the election, saying their supports brought about the sweet judicial victory recorded by APC.
Bamidele appealed to the governor to see the judgement as a call to duty and the need to redouble his efforts to make Ekiti a centre of excellence in education, commerce, industry and agriculture.
He appealed to the opposition to forget their political leanings and coalesce efforts with the governor for him to be able to raise Ekiti to a standard that would be of pride to all and sundry.
“Governor Fayemi’s victory was significant in so many facets. It signposted the fact that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was not being teleguided under President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Again, it buttressed the fact that Ekiti voters freely gave governor Fayemi the mandate and not that the will of the people was subverted via rigging as some politicians made the people to believe.
Meanwhile, the Director General of Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Council in Ekiti State, Dr. Olusegun Osinkolu, stated that the ruling of the Election Petition Tribunal stating that Governor Kayode Fayemi was validly elected in the July 14, 2018 election had lent credence to the unbiased nature of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC)
He urged Governor Kayode Fayemi to redouble efforts in making the state greater in all spheres, saying his victory confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari has not be teleguiding INEC.
Osinkolu congratulated Fayemi on the victory, saying the Tribunal’s verdict had attested to that unequivocal stand that the people of the state freely gave Ekiti governor the second term mandate and dispelled the widespread impression that it was allegedly got through fraud.
In a statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday on the victory, Osinkolu stated that the All Progressives Congress(APC)led government must rededicate itself to the service of the people since the judgement had further confirmed that the people of the state are behind the government.
“The whole Ekiti people knew that Fayemi was brought back through the electoral sovereignty of the voters, who came to the reality that they were enslaved by the immediate past government.
“I want to congratulate Governor Fayemi and the good people of the state on this landmark victory. It could have been disastrous for the people of this state for the verdict to have gone the other way, because the PDP under ex-Governor Ayodele Fayose was like a plague to our dear State.
“The developmental strides being championed by Fayemi could have been reversed if the PDP had won at the Tribunal, because the first 100 days of the APC government substantiated the fact that you need a man of valour and experience to govern Ekiti, which Prof Olusola lacks.
“In spite of the nosediving and shrinking revenue base of the state, Governor Fayemi abrogated the obnoxious development levies imposed on the pupils in both public and private schools by the regime of former Governor Fayose.
“Within two weeks he came on board, he approved a sum of N200m as Vehicle and Housing loans for teachers. He also approved another N146 million to pay backlog of arrears of core and rural allowances for teachers, even when the skeptics in their warped and demented imaginations thought the governor would sack teachers “.
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