The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has berated Governor Ayodele Fayose for not fulfilling his electoral promises to the people.
The party said Fayose’s stomach infrastructure slogan is a deceit to treat the electorate like beggars.
In a statement by the APC state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, the party said the governor has turned Ekiti State people to beggars by giving them handouts in form of kwashiorkor-infested chickens not bigger in size than ailing pigeons.
He said Ekiti State people have now seen the deceit of a man who said he is a friend of the commonman with his callous attitude to the people he claimed to love during the period the people are supposed to be happy.
Olatunbosun’s words: “Governor Fayose gave two “congos” of rice and miserable palm oil not up to 1 litre, all totaling N700 to each worker that the governor had earlier deducted N2,000 from his salary for Christmas gift.
“This is in contrast to Governor Kayode Fayemi who empowered the people through agriculture, cooperative and employment and apprenticeship schemes involving over two thousand youths, which helped the people to earn a living and made them happy for four years as against Fayose’s tokenism as Christmas gifts.”
Olatunbosun said instead of Fayose building on these laudable schemes, he had cancelled all the programmes, rendering the youth jobless while he had also cancelled many promotions in the civil service and dismissed many workers for the offences they did not commit.
The statement added: “Fayemi last year paid civil servants 30% of their salary as xmas bonus. He also paid their leave bonus while their December salary was paid on December 18. In contrast, Fayose has refused to pay civil servants their September salary even though he had collected September allocation from the Federal Government. Civil servants are yet to be paid as at December 22. “Last year, apart from 30 per cent bonus and leave bonus, all offices in MDAS were given gifts but all these have gone under Fayose as workers are now praying for their September salary let alone December salary or xmas or leave bonus.”
The APC spokesman said Fayose has worsened the conditions of Ekiti State workers by making it plain that he had no money to pay December salary even though he had received December Allocation, describing the governor’s action as “callous and insensitive”.
The statement said: “Governor Fayose should ask Ekiti citizens how Fayemi added value to their lives for four years. He didn’t wait till xmas period to pay N10,000 to over 20,000 youths in volunteer services for four years. He didn’t wait till xmas before he paid N5,000 to 20, 000 elderly people in his social security scheme for four years in addition to feeding them with both cooked and raw food all year round.
“Fayemi trained over 500 youths under the Odua/ Job Creation Agency Skill Acquisition scheme. Under the Youth in Commercial Agriculture Development scheme, over 600 young farmers have been trained and this generated about 15,000 direct and indirect jobs with the YCAD beneficiaries becoming employers of labour rather than beggars to be given handouts as Fayose is presently doing to Ekiti youths.”
Olatunbosun urged the governor to pay workers their entitlements and stop treating them like beggars, stressing that even though APC is not in power, each of the 177 wards across the state is receiving no fewer than 20 bags of rice from APC leaders to make members happy while PDP leaders only take care of their families.
“From what Fayose is doing, he is deliberately encouraging poverty so that people can be subservient to him and we sympathise with Ekiti workers and people who have suddenly been inflicted with miserable conditions by a governor touted to be the friend of the masses,” Olatubosun said.
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