Ekiti State Peoples Democratic (PDP) governorship candidate, Mr. Ayo Fayose has warned the people of Ijero Local Government in Ekiti State against allowing the APC to return to power, saying that will amount to sentencing the state to ” permanent slavery, permanent poverty, permanent hunger for workers and permanent kingdom for thugs, killers and treasury looters.”
Fayose who gave the warning while addressing supporters at Ijurin Ekiti in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti during campaign tour of wards in the council on Sunday said when he was governor he awarded a kilometre of road at N33m as against N1.150bn by the Fayemi administration.
According to a press statement issued by Fayose’s spokesman, Mr Idowu Adelusi, the PDP candidate said that Fayemi’s administration did not construct any new road but spend huge amount to repair the roads he constructed.
Fayose said that he did not borrow a dime to do all the works he did but Fayemi has plunged Ekiti State into debt in order to enslave Ekiti people.
Fayose said that he left N10.4bn in the state treasury when he was going and no successive administration has controverted that claim.
The PDP candidate again said that during Niyi Adebayo Administration which is an offshoot of Fayemi Administration, Ekiti State came35th position in secondary school’s public exams, but the status changed during his tenure because by 2005, Ekiti rose to 1st position in the South West.
Fayose said contractors who are Ekiti indigenes were relegated to the background as contractors were brought from Lagos, “even at that these Lagos contractors have left the sites because Fayemi refused to pay them.”
