I am the best governor. Ekiti State governor fayose boast

Governor Ayo Fayose says he is the best
Ekiti has ever had since the creation of the
state.
Governor Ayo Fayose declared himself as
the best performing governor of the state
since its creation in 1996. The governor,
who spoke yesterday through his chief press
secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, said out of 11
governors and administrators who had
governed the state, none has measured up
to his performance.
Fayose said: “Ekiti was created 20 years ago.
It is the only one among the states created at
the same time that is yet to have either airport
or airstrip. Still, the opposition does not see
this as a minus for the state. I don’t know
how to play politics with development of the
state. To me, Ekiti first. The dirty politics here
is responsible for Ekiti having almost 11
governors as opposed to Ebonyi with four
since 1996. During my first tenure, the
opposition said there was no need to dualise
roads in the state capital, everybody is
enjoying it today.”
Reeling out his laudable achievements, he
added: “My priority is to leave Ekiti better than
how I met it. What I did during my first tenure
are those visible things in the state today. I
may be tough, I may be controversial, but all
these are catalysts to my performance. I built
the first governor’s office, dualised roads in
the state capital, constructed roads in all
nooks and crannies of the state, put on
ground many structures for use of the state. I
always scored the first position in development
of the state.”
He, therefore, described those criticizing his
style of governance as detractors. “I have
transformed the palace of Ewi. There can’t be
two palaces. I am building the first flyover.
There cannot be need for another flyover in
the next 30 years. I am building new king’s
market (Oja Oba). There can’t be two king’s
market.
Dualisation of roads is ongoing in the local
government headquarters. My detractors know
what I am made off and are disturbed by my
landmarks. And that is why they will always
concoct lies to distract me or slow me down. I
am not a rookie, I am a second term governor,
very experienced and learned in grassroots
politics. If it is not photocromic, it is soldier
used to rig.
If it is not Dasuki money today, perhaps
tomorrow they will fabricate many
unimaginable lies. They said building flyover is
a waste, how many vehicles ply Ekiti roads.
Similarly, they criticised my plan to build
airport for Ekiti to the extent of poisoning the
minds of the land owners against our good
intention,” he lamented.
Fayose berated his immediate predecessor,
Kayode Fayemi, for his low performance,
adding that he left the Ekiti State Universal
Basic Education Board (SUBED) worse than
he met it and that Fayemi had only three
achievements to his credit.####
Rating the performance of the
administration, the governor said Fayemi had
only three achievements to his credit in four
years.
These, according to him, included: the new
government House, dismissed as elephant
project, the uncompleted civic centre and
uncompleted state pavilion. The pavilion
project, he said, gulped huge state resources
without any concrete use for the people.
In a similar vein, Governor Ayodele Fayose
of Ekiti has reportedly signed documents
directing the state’s accountant-general to
immediately refund monies over-deducted
from the salaries of teachers who had
bought some facilities from government
during the previous administration of former
Governor Kayode Fayemi.
Fayemi is now the minister of Solid Minerals
Development in the administration of
President Muhammadu Buhari. A few years
ago, teachers had bought cars and laptops
among other facilities from government on
loan with an arrangement for monthly
installmental deductions from their salaries.
According the Ekiti state chairman of the
Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) , Comrade
Samuel Akosile, the over-deductions from
the teachers’ salaries has been a perennial
problem but when brought to the notice of
Governor Fayose, he promptly set up a
committee to look into the complaint, giving
an ultimatum of 30 days to report back to
him.By Chibabynaija1