Adeola Akinremi

The pattern has continued. Accusations and counter-accusations. The father is a fraudster and the son is a confidence trickster. They have a company of cracksmen, magsmen, mobsmen, murderers and junkies. It is the story of Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose and his “boy”, Temitope Aluko—a man old enough to lead the nation, but chose to be a scalawag for Fayose.

Do you think Ekiti State is jinxed?

One moment missed on June 21, 2014, following the election that threw out its cerebral governor, Kayode Fayemi, the state is now back to the old order.

A fountain full of knowledge has become a place full of dry bones. The leviathan has turned a restful state to a state of turmoil. The land of honour has become a land of horror.

Frankly, the leviathan must be tamed now, except we want more damage.
Ekiti moved from boom state to doom state after the former governor, Kayode Fayemi, was manipulated out of office by forces within and forces without.

We’ve all followed the charade of the recent weeks and the melodrama between Fayose and Aluko.
We’ve watched youtube videos and live interviews on how the gubernatorial election was won and lost.

The troubling part was the ruse of a truce is this: in less than five hours after Aluko and Fayose jointly addressed journalists in Lagos claiming they’ve settled their scores, the headlines changed. Aluko recanted.

Two people who should be in jail for electoral fraud are still out making mockery of our democracy and we, the people, are laughing.
The sense of solidarity that characterised the Ekiti Parapo during the Yoruba war of independence is what is needed now to rescue Ekiti State from the abyss.

The Ekiti intelligentsia must make this a project that they can all be proud of. There are many reasons for my advocacy.
A vituperating governor, Fayose, has abandoned the business of governance to fighting war he willingly created by himself.

From senseless attacks on the federal government policies to his personal vendettas for President Buhari, Fayose has rubbished himself and the state for his unintelligent statements in the media.

He’s one governor who speaks with makeup statistics. Fayose’s politics is undesirable in modern politics. It is like an abscess or sore that must not be allowed to fester.

For decoy, Fayose has been creating controversial projects to deceive the Ekiti people. For instance, after his airport project suffered defeat, he has rolled over to a flyover project.

Does Ekiti need airport and flyover for its small population and agrarian economy at this time, when money is not easy to come by?
It is one of several machinations of Fayose to leave Ekiti in complete ruins, when he leaves office.
There are important areas that will impact several lives that Fayose is not concentrating on. His opportunity for redemption, after his first term of controversial exit, has now been lost.

Can anyone explain the rousing welcome Fayose organised for a legislator under federal investigation?
I’m always pained to see people in Ekiti gathered to celebrate poverty of thought each time Fayose returns to the same limited set of ideas.
After the state lawmaker, Akanni Afolabi, who was unjustly detained by the DSS was released, Fayose resorted to cheap publicity stunt by ferrying the lawmaker from Abuja to Ekiti with a private helicopter using the taxpayers’ money for self-glorification. He didn’t stop at that.

In his effrontery, Fayose, who has not been able to pay salaries to workers then paid for newspaper adverts to advertise his folly.
The governor wasted money publishing court records on bail application for Akanni and then rewarded him with a car gift for his “loyalty.”
Of course, this kind of politics can best be understood from Akanni’s vote of thanks after he received the car gift.

It is about loyalty to individual and not the state, though Akanni sworn to an oath to put the interest of the state above anything else.
“The DSS asked me so many questions about the governor and I stood my ground. Governor Fayose is one man that I can never betray because he is my helper and my mentor. He has done a lot for me,” Akanni said.

In our polity, when political corruption such as electoral fraud in Ekiti and other places that has now been established through many evidences is allowed, the gang of thieves will be in every state and they will carry on with the business as usual and we’ll be the victims.

Aluko who has been working and walking with Fayose for decades and served as chairman, Security and Intelligence Committee of his campaign organisation during the 2014 election must have been involved in other shady deals over the years, but it is quite unfortunate that we don’t have a strong criminal investigation system in Nigeria.

A simple background check on Aluko would have revealed so much were he to be living in the West, particularly in the United States.
It is a shame that even the federal government has not slammed court action against Aluko so far and Fayose continues to act in impudence, because of immunity.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/04/08/ekiti-from-land-of-honour-to-land-of-horror/

this article is spot on....it covers alot of ground on Ekiti,its people and govt

The children of hate will soon come n say Hunger is Bad.
Going by the fact that Fayose n Aluko are still roaming free, it will take the APC years to flush out the PDP moles in the system.

hUNGERBAD seems your lenses never sees good in anything non APC....great news we stoned APC out of Ekiti with joy...gleefully....so please just face your State of origin....Osun State...these epistles may be enough to wake Aregbesola up from his debt spree am sure PDP will NOT contest in that State's guber elections....as the State is damaged beyond repairs.... Good morning.

Fayose can be liked to a man who has a splinter in is eyes instead of him to remove the one in is own eyes in other for him to see clearly to remove his brother own he chosen to remove its brother own while leaving its own behind.

Mr Fayose and his Co brigands are world-class jokers!
They have turned the state to the headquarter of discombobulation, thus has sacrifice their mandate on political histrionics.
As long as Fayose remain the governor of Ekiti state nothing good will come out of it, for out of nothing comes nothing.

Spot on.but the issue now is some people will reason base on political differnces.

Any time I see an Ekiter I am always tempted to ask why? Why would they follow a career tout over walking fountain of knowledge? Well we came to learn rigging and blatant criminality took place. FG must act decisively in bringing foulmouthshake to book.

What a shame!
Ekiti used to be known for intelligence, brains and critical thinkers. But today, its all about stomach-infrastructure. And like a poverty ridden state, nobody has mouth to ask questions.

vedaxcool:
Any time I see an Ekiter I am always tempted to ask why? Why would they follow a career tout over walking fountain of knowledge? Well we came to learn rigging and blatant criminality took place. FG must act decisively in bringing foulmouthshake to book.

The same way you followed and voted for an illiterate certificate forger

angels09:
hUNGERBAD seems your lenses never sees good in anything non APC....great news we stoned APC out of Ekiti with joy...gleefully....so please just face your State of origin....Osun State...these epistles may be enough to wake Aregbesola up from his debt spree am sure PDP will NOT contest in that State's guber elections....as the State is damaged beyond repairs.... Good morning.

Don't mind him instead of him to concentrate in his debt ridden ekiti stat,he is meddling in other people's affairs.

Electing Fayose was the greatest mistake people of Ekiti made just as Nigerians elected ...

babdap:
Electing Fayose was the greatest mistake people of Ekiti made just as Nigerians elected ...

Ekiti people are not complaining!! Adeola Akinremi is one pained APC apologist!!

For a man who said unabashedly; as opposition, our primary assignment is to fight the FG, when defending SAS, the quintessential Grand Patron of Boko Haram and PDP national Chairman, I could hardly be surprised at the deplorable socioeconomic state of Ekiti.

The day he made that statement, I imagined; what more evidence do we need to prove this man's got screws loose upstairs?? How could a governor think his primary objective is attacking the president

Ekiti is done for, salvation can only come in 2years time.

This is a democracy where the people enjoy the prerogative to choose their leaders. There is no gainsaying Fayose enjoys the affection of the Ekiti electorate. Conduct the gubernatorial election umpteen times, Fayose will still emerge triumphant. His leadership style is unorthodox, but the people like it. Why then begrudge them of their passionate belief in their leader? As for Aluko, it is the duty of the federal government and INEC to charge him to court. Since they have failed to do so, why blame Fayose?

omenka:
For a man who said unabashedly; as opposition, our primary assignment is to fight the FG, when defending SAS, the quintessential Grand Patron of Boko Haram and PDP national Chairman, I could hardly be surprised at the deplorable socioeconomic state of Ekiti.

The day he made that statement, I imagined; what more evidence do we need to prove this man's got screws loose upstairs?? How could a governor think his primary objective is attacking the president

Ekiti is done for, salvation can only come in 2years time.

Lolz!! You seriously believe the APC will win any election in ekiti state? I just wish one bye-election will just come up to open your eyes

cktheluckyman:


Lolz!! You seriously believe the APC will win any election in ekiti state? I just wish one bye-election will just come up to open your eyes

Smh. We heard a billion of this prior 2015. We heard of a particular party ruling for 60years, only to be cut short at 16.

Learn from history. Anything can happen in politics.

If ekiti is a land of horror what will we called Nigeria under president monster buhari
When an insensitive and inconsistent president like buhari ruling Nigeriia then we are a failed state
Fayose is the hope of democracy in Nigeria
If fayose is a God I will worship him

babdap:
Electing Fayose was the greatest mistake people of Ekiti made just as Nigerians elected ...

for your mind now , u don talk finish.

The situation of things in Ekiti is really horrible. Fayose, Aluko, Olugbemi, Lere Olayinka etc are all miscreants who should never have been allowed anywhere near a public office in the first place. The mess they are making out of governing the state is disgusting and shameful. Ekiti has moved from being the fountain of knowledge to the fountain of political rascals. I sincerely hope my people will get their priorities right and vote more logically in the next election. This gamble with Fayose is a huge failure.

cktheluckyman:

Don't mind him instead of him to concentrate in his debt ridden ekiti stat,he is meddling in other people's affairs.

Debt ridden Ekiti state indeed.


You online sycopants are shameless

cktheluckyman:

Ekiti people are not complaining!! Adeola Akinremi is one pained APC apologist!!

May God forgive you for this erroneous statement about the feelings of Ekiti people. Have you been there before? How can you say workers that haven't been payed this year are not complaining? Must everything be about politics??

I've always maintained that the slogan of Ekiti state should be changed prompto to The Land of Stomach Infrastructure.
Seeing the way the governor distributes rice and beans to buy the consciousness of its indigenes, one will know the state is a state mostly full of hungry people.

K

Anybody wey dey vex for Fayose make him dash everybody fuel

Hahahahahaaa... Im jst change observer. Check my signature!

Standing5:
The children of hate will soon come n say Hunger is Bad.
Going by the fact that Fayose n Aluko are still roaming free, it will take the APC years to flush out the PDP moles in the system.

Lol, seriously Hunger is Bad

Btw good thread

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It was never 'Land of Honour'. I don't even know how it became known as that. It is the 'Fountain of knowledge'.

To the topic.

There's so much that people do not understand about Ekiti politics. The writer is calling on the intelligent ones to save the state, but need I remind him that the people have given the elite the opportunity to write their names in the good books of history, but they've failed the electorate.

In 1999, Adeniyi Adebayo, an elitist governor was voted for en mass, but what did the people get? 4 years of nothingness. Fayemi had his chance as well, in fact, the electorate(including Fayose), gave everything to see that he got his stolen mandate from Segun Oni and the PDP. There was so much hope and belief in him, the people risked and laid down their lives, protested daily until their duly elected leader was given his mandate. What became of it? Another 4 years of nothingness.

If you study Ekiti politics well, you will understand that there's a distrust between the 'intelligent elite'(what does this even mean?) and the people. The people don't trust these elitists because they've not brought development, they've only just come, seen and looted. This is where Fayose fills the gap for them and that is why he thrives.

On the election, I believe PDP had plans to rig if it wasn't going their way, but in the end, they didn't need to, the people voted for Fayose. Ekiti people aren't stupid, if they love you, they show you. They showed Fayemi by helping him claim his mandate from Segun Oni, and I see no reason why they wouldn't have done it again, if they voted for Fayemi in 2014 and found out their votes didn't count.

babdap:
Electing Fayose was the greatest mistake people of Ekiti made just as Nigerians elected ...

Shut up abeg. Fayemi was there before, and he did nothing. Fayose has not even spent up to two years in office, and you're already barking.