..’Fayemi runs state APC like puppeteer’
…You act like stranger to Ekiti, Fayemi replies senator
Priscilla Ofunre, Ado-Ekiti
Special Adviser to President Mohammadu Buhari on Political Affairs, Sen. Babafemi Ojudu, has lamented the lack of governance in the State.
Sen. Ojudu, who stated this, on Wednesday, during a telephone chat with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, rated Governor Kayode Fayemi low in performance in the state.
The senator, who represented Ekiti Central in seventh Senate, added that Governor Fayemi has since his two years in office not impacted positively in the lives of the people.
According to him, “Where is the focus on the people now? Is it roads the government is constructing?
“Is it providing employment? Is it providing foods? Where is the governance? I want you to do a search on google and tell me where the projects are.
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“Take Borno State and also Ekiti State. Look at what Borno State Governor, Prof. Zulum has done since he was sworn in till today and then take a look at what Ekiti State Governor has done since he was sworn in.
“Let us compare the two, when they tell you there is no money, is Zulum in charge of the Central Bank or he is receiving more than what Ekiti is being given?
“What is the population of Borno and what is the population of Ekiti State? You could take three Ekiti States out of Borno.
“Compare the ratio of the population of Borno to what is going there and the ratio of our population and what is coming here,” he said.
Sen. Ojudu, who chided Governor Kayode Fayemi for running the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) like a one-man show and a puppeteer, said that the governor has not called any meeting of party leaders or caucus meeting since he was sworn in almost two years on.
“They have not call any meeting of leaders of the party. No meeting, no caucus, I don’t know how one man can run a show of the party. He is a puppeteer. He beats the drum and others just dance to it.
“Most of us have been observers; ex-Senators, ex-House of Representatives members, ex-Speaker of the House of Assembly, ex-members of the House of Assembly, leaders of repute. Nobody has been asked to come for any meeting.”
In a swift reaction to the allegations, the governor, who spoke through his Special Assistant on Media and Public Communication, Mr. Segun Dipe, said that contrary to what the senator said, there was governance in the state.
He described Ojudu as trying to abuse the minds of the people as against the good intentions of the Governor, which the people are already feeling.
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According to Mr. Dipe, Sen. Ojudu was sounding like an outsider who had lost touch with what was happening in the state.
“Ojudu is sounding like people are claiming he is. He is guilty of what people is accusing people of. We believe his appointment can’t be divorced from being an Ekiti man.
“Yes, Senator Ojudu doesn’t come home and doesn’t recognize Ekiti at the moment.
“What you don’t understand you will always see fault in it. For now, he is excused from seeing the negative side because he is already a stranger and alien to the people and the party.
“He is practising deliberate amnesia. He chooses to forget what he wants to forget and remembers what he wants to remember. In the long run, there is governance and there is APC in Ekiti State.”
