Kehinde Adewole Ado Ekiti
Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, at the weekend, led other All Progressives Congress(APC) party’s leaders to campaign for a re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in Ekiti, urging Nigerians not to allow looters take over government again.
Erelu Fayemi said Buhari remains the best option for Nigeria, and pleaded with Ekiti voters to vote massively for the candidates of the APC fielded for the presidential, National and State Assembly elections in the state.
The Governor’s wife spoke in Igbemo Ekiti, Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government area of Ekiti State when a State Assembly candidate of the party in constituency 2 in the council, Mr. Hakeem Jamiu flagged off his campaign for the coming election.
Jamiu, who hails from the town, was the Senior Special Assistant on Research and Documentation during the first term of Governor Kayode Fayemi.
Mrs Fayemi, who led other APC candidates in Ekiti Central to campaign for Buhari, said the constituency has no reason to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) having allegedly benefited nothing from immediate past government of Mr. Ayodele Fayose.
“Nigeria can’t return to looters again, we can’t go back to a period when our commonwealth was being wasted by few individuals, that is why we have to allow President Buhari to continue.
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“Governor Fayemi can’t be a governor in Ekiti and begin to go to Abuja to beg before things are done for Ekiti when he can easily get such easily done with President Buhari in the saddle, so Ekiti electorate must make the right choice in the presidential and other elections.
“President Buhari, our senatorial candidate in Ekiti Central, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele, the House of Representatives candidate in Ekiti Central constituency 1, Mr. Sola Fatoba and Alhaji Akeem Jamiu must win, because of their past records and competence to represent Ekiti at any level.
“The APC didn’t just pick Mr. Jamiu because of his closeness to my husband, but because of his competence. He had served in government before and he did well. There is nowhere you put him that he won’t perform, so he is going to be a perfect match as a lawmaker and Fayemi as a governor”.
Addressing the crowd, Jamiu said the entire Igbemo community was cut off from the rest of Ekiti under Fayose die to alleged inability of the state government to construct a collapsed bridge that links the town to ex-governor’s country home.
Jamiu promised that he would do the constituency proud if given the opportunity to serve as a member of the state assembly, by initiating and sponsoring bills that would improve on the wellbeing of the populace.
“The state’s Ministry of Works had already started working on the bridge
and soon our people will be reconnected back with the rest of Ekiti people.
“We are not going to the Assembly for personal gains, but to give effective representation that would help Governor Fayemi delivers democratic dividends to the people of the state.
“Governor Fayemi touched all the 133 towns in terms of development in his first term and we will make sure we provide enabling environment for him to reenact such unexpected magic in his second term”.
Jamiu warned against apathy in the presidential poll, saying such could deplete the recognition that would be accorded the State by APC-led government after Buhari’s victory.
