CONCERNED IKERE INDIGENES Temporary Secretariart: Ikere Town Hall, Ikere Ekiti PRESS RELEASE Stop Making Ikere-Ekiti Dumping Ground For Deputy Governors We, Concerned Ikere Indigenes (CII), a coalition of Ikere-Ekiti indigenes in Ekiti State, hereby reject the choice of Dr. Olubunmi Olusola as the deputy governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the June 21, 2014 governorship election. We see the choice as a deliberate policy to degrade our town as a place where no one is qualified to be the governor of the state. Ikere-Ekiti had produced two deputy governors for the PDP candidate, Mr Ayodele Fayose, whom he humiliated out of office. The impeachment of our illustrious son, Surveyor Abiodun Aluko, was orchestrated by Fayose before he brought in Mr Adebisi Omoyeni to replace him. Omoyeni himself left Fayose’s government when the former governor was plotting to rubbish him and dent his impeccable credentials. The two are more qualified than Fayose on grounds of integrity, exposure, education and corporate governance. They were in the race for the 2014 governorship of Ekiti State, but Fayose in cahoots with party national leadership conspired to deny our illustrious sons the coveted seat only for Fayose to now declare to Ikere-Ekiti people that they don’t deserve to be governor of Ekiti State but a perpetual deputy governor. Again, Chief Dayo Okondo, who Fayose deceived for a long time on promise to make him deputy governor, is now wrecked in failed health over psychological crisis resulting from Fayose’s deception after he used the man for unedifying duties. Since the man has been on sick bed, Fayose has not deemed it fit to visit him on his sick bed while Governor Kayode Fayemi is the one now taking care of Okondo’s health challenges. Fayose’s thugs turned their guns against the students of the College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, killing scores of them, resulting in the closure of the school with Ikere-Ekiti businesses suffering the brunt of close down of the college. More degrading is that even though it is believed that the South Senatorial zone should produce the next governor of Ekiti State, all the aspirants of the party in the zone were rigged out in the primaries only for Fayose to bring in an Ikere-Ekiti indigene who nobody knows at home and who is a political novice to be his running mate so that he can manipulate him in the governance of the state at will at the detriment of Ekiti people. We have on record the past misdeeds of Fayose against Ikere-Ekiti political leaders. Apart from Aluko’s impeachment, which Fayose orchestrated, and frustration meted to Omoyeni when he was deputy governor, he attempted the recall of Honourable Kayode Babade in the House of Assembly because our son was not ready to swim with him in his illegalities in which Fayose was famous during his turbulent years as the governor of Ekiti State. Yesterday, Governor Fayemi flagged off the dualisation of Ikere-Ado-Akure road, which Fayose failed to do when he was the governor. The only part of the road that Fayose constructed did not reach Ikere-Ekiti township and it collapsed barely six months after it was opened to the public. We have seen the roads Fayemi is constructing across the state. We want the same standard of road in our community and not Fayose’s model that collapses six months after commissioning. In fact, Fayose had declared Fayemi’s gesture as political because, according to him, Ekiti State has no money for the dualisation of the road. This is a clear signal that Fayose is not ready to do anything for Ikere-Ekiti if he emerges the governor. We are also aware that Fayose is planning to turn College of Education, because it awards degree certificates, to the Institute of Education of the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti. According to information at our disposal, his belief is that the State has no money to run two degree-awarding institutions because of the running costs. Enough of fraud and injustice against Ikere community. Ikere-Ekiti is tired of producing deputy governors. We have many qualified sons and daughters that are more credible than Fayose that can occupy the governorship position in Ekiti State. The choice of Mr. Olusola is nothing other than a continued relegation of Ikere-Ekiti political stature in Ekiti State. Ikere-Ekiti is tired of playing the second fiddle. We deserve nothing other than the governorship of Ekiti State in 2018 after Governor Fayemi’s second term. Ikere-Ekiti will not fall into the trap of deputy governorship that will deprive it of Ekiti State governorship in 2018. Fayose should go away with his poisoned chalice. Bamidele Ogundare (For: Concerned Ikere Indigenes)
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 10:35:59 +0000
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