- Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state
expresses the confidence that he will
emerge victorious in the coming Ekit
gubernatorial election
- The governor says any candidate fielded
by the APC in the poll will be no match for
the PDP
- Fayose calls on the opposition to
remember that it was the APC-led
administration of 2010 to 2014 that
plunged the state into financial crisis
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has
boasted that the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) will score a record breaking victory
against the All Progressives Congress (APC)
and its candidate in the 2018 governorship
election in the state to set electoral records.
Fayose in a statement by his chief press
secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti on
Saturday, July 21, expressed the confidence
that he will emerge victorious in the coming
poll, Vanguard reports.
The governor reacting to comments made
by Segyn Oni while declaring his intention
to contest the poll that Fayose and the PDP
were common enemies, said any candidate
fielded by the APC in the poll will be no
match for the PDP.
He said: “Defeating the APC in governorship
elections is not new to me and my party. We
defeated them in 2003 and recorded a
landslide victory against them in 2014
when their candidate could not even win
his local government. The 2014 victory was
very remarkable because Oni was part of a
gang up of three former governors against
me and my party and we won convincingly.
“Oni tried unsuccessfully to rubbish my
administration’s giant strides in the state
during my first tenure and the current one.
It was during my first term that we dualised
all the roads leading to Ado-Ekiti, the state
capital. We repositioned education and
improved on the state’s performance in
public examinations. We are number one in
NECO and among the top in WAEC
examinations.
“Now, we are not only dualising roads
across 11 local government areas, we have
extended the Ado-Ikere Road dualisation
deep into Ikere town. Because the APC and
its leaders in Ekiti lack foresight, they can
never ever see anything good in the flyover,
new Ojaba Market, new high court complex,
new Governor’s Office and other numerous
projects we are executing.
“They are simply dumbfounded that in spite
of the austere times we are in, our
administration has been able to forge
ahead with these projects. It is only a
leadership that is focused and know its
onions that can place the welfare of
majority of people over and above the
welfare of minority."
Fayose called on the opposition to
remember that it was the APC-led
administration of 2010 to 2014 that
plunged the state into financial crisis when
it failed to offset workers’ entitlements and
borrowed to finance projects it never
executed.
Meanwhile, Governor Ayo Fayose has called
on Nigerians to reject the All Progressives
Congress, (APC) committee on restructuring.
NAIJ.com gathered that Fayose in a
statement Thursday night by his Chief Press
Secretary, Idowu Adelusi said: “It is dead on
arrival and a ruse. It is a blatant attempt to
draw the wool over the eyes of Nigerians.”
Fayose, who also serves as the chairman of
the PDP Governors’ Forum, said the
committee was unnecessary since
Nigerians have overwhelming voted for
immediate restructuring of the polity.https://www.naij.com/1116439-ekiti-2018-apc-defeated-fayose-boasts.html