Afenifere Chieftain and Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Dayo Adeyeye has assured youths in the State of mass employment if he becomes the State governor.
Addressing some students, who visited him in his Ise-Ekiti residence today, he said the youths should be rest assured that there will be decent jobs for them so that they would be able to feed their parents.
He described as unacceptable, a situation where a state governor and his wife go about sharing cooked rice to aged women, saying; “What government should do is to provide opportunity for people to be able to feed in their homes not sharing cooked food to the people like almajiri.”
Adeyeye, who said the jobs that will be created by his government will be gainful ones, added that; “We won’t give you N10,000 per month employments because that is celebration of poverty and we are not going to further impoverish our youths by creating jobs in which graduates will be paid N10,000 per month.”
The governorship aspirant described Ekiti State as a well-endowed that can care of its people, said; “As chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), we promised that we were going to stop the practice of public school pupils carrying furniture to school and also build storey building classrooms, we did it.
“This time around, we are promising that we will provide gainful employments for our youths, be rest assured that we will also do it because we have the capacity to do it.
“For instance, we have said that we are going to make Ekiti State the education hub of Nigeria and you can imagine the number of employments that will be generated if we have more tertiary institutions (both government owned and private) in the State. In the State today, Afe Babalola University alone has provided more than 5,000 direct and indirect employments. Now imagine if we have five more private tertiary institutions in Ekiti State.
“Apart from the education sector, we are also going to make the agricultural sector viable and create jobs through establishment of agro-allied industries, especially food processing.”
