Why Fayose is the most wasteful governor in Ekiti history – Victor Kolade
aspirant in Ekiti State has described the state Governor, Ayodele
Fayose as the most wasteful governor in the history of the state.
Kolade said Fayose's stomach infrastructure was nothing but a fraud,
adding that people are still hungry in the state.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, on Wednesday, Kolade stated that
Fayose was attempting to build "a bridge that leads to nowhere."
Kolade said, "Ekiti state was created in October 1996, but one thing
that is certain is that there is no tangible development. You cannot
see an improvement.
"Anybody who visited the state when it was created and now, would
agree with me that there is no substantial development.
"The infrastructure that the governor is talking about is a farce.
What he is talking about stomach infrastructure is nothing but a
fraud. One thing I have always told my audience is that the human
capital in Ekiti is not developed.
"The sitting governor has done a bridge and has not completed it. As
of today, he has spent N20 billion and has not completed it. He keeps
on reviewing the cost.
"If you want to go the Ghadaffi way and you divide this money by the
2.5 million people in Ekiti, each of us would be entitled to about N4
million.
"Now, if you take N1.6 billion for instance and give N100 million to
each of the 16 local governments and then form co-operatives, you then
ask people to access the loans, you would have created more
millionaires in the state.
"The bridge is so long that no one will even use it except few people
travelling very far because underneath it, there are so many easy
outlets that motorists can use.
"The three problems we have are; government is the only employer of
labour. There are no factories. If you do not work with the
government, you work in the hotel, filling station, the saw mill or
you are an 'Okada' rider. It is mostly a civil service state.
"If we had successive governments and they were not able to discern
that this burden should be taken off the shoulders of government, then
what are we talking about? Successive governments in Ekiti state have
failed.
"The second problem we have is hunger. We farm so much but so well we
are hungry. It is like 90 percent of everybody in the state is a
farmer even while doing government work, but hunger is still prevalent
in the land.
"You remember how someone was cooking, went inside in the house and by
the time she came out, the food had been stolen from the fire. It
happened in Ekiti state.
"It is like this because there is no government interference in
farming. Farmers till the ground hopelessly. They farm on lands that
have been farmed consistently by several generations earlier on.
"Thirdly, the behavioural attitude of an average Ekiti person is going
down the drain. Most of the youths now take to drugs. The social order
in Ekiti is bad. There is so much to be done".
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