…canvasses support for deputy’s guber ambition
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said that he will miss the people of Ekiti when he leaves office next year.
He spoke while distributing a sum of N94.08 million to 11 communities for grassroots development at the Government House pavilion in Ado-Ekiti, at the weekend.
But he declined comment on his burnt car, a Mercedes Benz Jeep G-Wagon, which went up in flames at the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway in Lagos, on Wednesday.
“I will miss Ekiti people so dearly, because I have been used to them. I love finding myself in their midst and this is what I will miss sorely,” he said.
The project was financed by the Ekiti State Community Development Agency, in partnership with the World Bank.
Fayose used the opportunity to rally support for his preferred governorship aspirant, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, who is the deputy governor, adding that the people would benefit more when they have a governor they can easily access and control.
He said, “Do you know that I have not entered my office in the new governor’s office in the last one year? I have always been with the people on the streets to fraternise with them and that is the essence of leadership.No governor must rate himself higher than the people that elected him. That is why you must support the continuity project. That is why you must vote for Prof. Olusola.
“I am the first governor to spend second term in Ekiti and it will be to your benefit if you can allow me to hand over to a man of our choice. Henceforth, you can call my deputy, ‘governor-in-waiting’, because with these your supports, I can say he has already won.”
He said the project, which would be done in phases was to help the communities execute projects they could not undertake through their financial power.
“Our aim is to ensure that all the 133 communities benefit from this programme. All they need to do is to pay the 10 per cent counterpart funding and they can access the fund for community development,” he stressed.
When asked about his burnt car, where the governor had narrowly escaped death, he quickly retorted, “I don’t want to comment about it.”
