A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Ekiti State, Hon. Opeyemi Falegan, has berated the state governor over his stomach infrastructure policy, describing it as a ruse and conduit pipe to siphon the state’s resources.
Falegan also criticised the governor for allegedly playing to the gallery and in the process subjecting the state to ridicule.
The United Kingdom-based PDP chieftain, in a statement made available in Ado Ekiti yesterday, stated: “It is worrisome and disturbing, the level of bad image the current leadership in Ekiti State is giving it on daily basis as a result of seeking cheap publicity and public sympathy as a way of covering up financial mess on the corridor of power”.
He said people in and outside the state needed to ask questions on the actual amount being expended on “stomach infrastructure” by the governor.
According to him, “It will amaze the people that available information shows that the governor is claiming more than N50 million every month from government coffers as fund to finance the scheme, which has not reached two per cent of the state population since the governor started it.
”The governor claimed to have spent over N1.5 billion on the scheme but despite that, the level of abject poverty and hungry in the State cannot be compared to any other State in the Country.
”With at least, an investment of N500 million in each of the three senatorial districts in the State on agriculture, there will be abundant food on the table of nearly all the people in the state, especially the common people,the governor is claiming to associate with.
”Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State had announced a 40 per cent discount on rice during the yuletide season for the people of the State without unnecessary and unending publicity like what is obtainable in Ekiti State.
”Governor Fayose should rather borrow a leaf from Prof. Ayade on real governance and especially the plights of the electorate as against his deceptive nature of a-one-man-show of his administration in the State.
”Ekiti People are not hungry and lazy people as they are being portrayed by the governor. Give an average Ekiti man the wherewithals no matter how small it is, he ever ready to maximise it and work to feed himself and family members.
”Hardwork, honesty and sincerity are some of the traits, Ekiti people are known and appreciated for world over, so it will be unacceptable for us to be seen as otherwise because of the activities of some of our leaders on the corridor of power,” he stated.
Falegan, however, called on the Ekiti people not to be deterred by the activities of anybody, but rather continue to “live above board and defend the good name of our fore-fathers in and outside the State.”
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