Soyinka
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State has described as a product of stomach honorarium, Professor Wole Soyinka’s statement that the loss of Governor Kayode Fayemi in the June 21, 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State is still seen as a dream.
The party, while disclosing this through its Publicity Secretary, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Monday, noted that Soyinka was only making such a ridiculous statement in appreciation of the stomach honour from the All Progressives Congress and the outgoing governor of the state.
Oluwawole alleged that the Nobel Laureate was brought to Ekiti Sate for the commissioning of the new government house in a chartered helicopter paid for from the coffers of the state, while an undisclosed amount of money was also packaged for his stomach, “hence his result to unmerited image laundering for the reckless outgoing governor.”
The PDP spokesman wondered why Soyinka suddenly turned himself to an image maker of an incumbent governor who lost his reelection bid in all the 16 Local Government Areas of the state, winning less than 20 wards out of 177 wards in the state as well.
Hear him: “What we are saying is that Fayemi’s woeful loss in the length and breath of Ekiti should have been a pointer to a pure minded and a sane person that image laundering for a governor that was totally rejected by his people could only amount to gluttonic vituperations of highest demeanour.”
According to Oluwawole, never in the history of the state was government indebtedness was so high and killing like what is obtainable under Fayemi’s administration. “Ekiti State is now indebted to the tune of N84 billion, the service of which will last till 2020,” he said.
The state chapter of the PDP added that, under Fayemi, pensioners and civil servants are subjected to poverty and penury since the government will not pay them salary arrears, with deductions to their co-operative societies being owed up to five months.
According to the party’s Publicity Secretary, the image of the outgoing governor which Soyinka was trying to launder had been damaged by himself due to excessive greed, uncontrolled wickedness to workers and high wire corruption that has been exposed to the people of the state. He noted that Soyinka pretended he did not know about it.
Oluwawole alleged that despite the rejection of Governor Fayemi at the poll, his instinct for reckless spending and last minute embezzlement has led him into inviting different people to the state to come and commission mostly uncompleted projects, while milking the purse of the state dry in the name of entertainment and logistics spent each time such VIPs are in Ekiti State.
The PDP spokesman argued that Soyinka was blindfolded by the chartered helicopter that brought him to the state, adding that had he travelled by road, he would have seen the physical and human degradation caused by Fayemi he whom has come to praise.
“Soyinka should remain a dreamer anyway because he cannot understand the plight of Ekiti people under the draconian rule of Governor Fayemi and the pains and indebtedness he has caused the yet to be born generation of Ekiti indigenes,” he posited.
DailyPost recalls that Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, was recently in Ado Ekiti for the inauguration of the new Government House known as “Ayoba Villa” where he described the loss of the outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, in the June 21 governorship election as a mystery which the All Progressives Congress must unravel.
The Professor further advised that with the various programmes and legacy projects put in place by Fayemi, his successor must continue on the path of development.
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