The governor, who described the people of Bayelsa State as “worthy heroes of democracy that stood their ground against agents of darkness that were prepared to shortchange them by imposing a governor they do not want on them”, said Governor Dickson’s victory was another vindication of his prediction on 20 things to expect this year
Browsing: Governor Ayo Fayose
According to a statement on Sunday by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose said local government system should be truly allowed to function in accordance with the constitution for democratic gains to get down to the people in the grassrooot
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose cautioned that nothing untoward must happen to Metuh, adding that the APC’s desperation to decimate and silence the opposition has dragged the Buhari-led government in the mud of lawlessness
The party’s Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in a statement on Tuesday that Adesina’s appointment was a violation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which stated that “no person can be appointed into the Judicial Service Commission twice”
Governor Fayose, who said he was not disappointed by the President’s response during his media chat to question on the disobedient of court orders by the Department of State Services, added that he had made it known several times that once a dictator will always be a dictator and that those who helped him to power will end up in his gaol of dictatorship
“We are equally aware that Fayose submitted a bill of N30 billion to the then President Goodluck Jonathan as the amount he would require to unseat then Governor Kayode Fayemi.
According to a press statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose, who expressed appreciation to the people of the state for their unflinching support in the past year, noted with satisfaction that those fanning the embers of discord and formenting trouble in the state were put to shame
The PDP, which also warned the APC to stop harbouring suspected criminals, alleged that some APC leaders led by a top security officer who worked with former Governor Kayode Fayemi was at the Ado Ekiti Prisons on Monday to see those being tried for their alleged involvement in kidnappings in the state and the murder of former National Union of Road Transport Workers boss, Omolafe Aderiye.
The governor, who commiserated with the government and people of Borno and Adamawa States, especially those who lost their loved ones in the attacks, said: “In other countries of the world, the government would have taken responsibility for deceiving and misleading the people and apologised
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose described the claim by Mohammed that Boko Haram insurgents had been defeated as strange
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said: “Only God’s intervention can save Nigeria from the present economic and security problems as it is glaring that the man running the affairs of the country at the federal level does not have any answer to the problems
Reacting to the claims by Fayose’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, that Fayemi plunged Ekiti State into debts without any commensurate development projects to show for it, the Publicity Secretary of the APC, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in a statement that it was only the blind that would not see various development projects executed by the former governor
The governor also said the APC-led administration greatly shortchanged the people of the state by running the affairs of the councils with caretaker committees, while they were in government
‘Unemployment: Millions of jobs will be lost in 2016 as against the three million jobs promised by the APC yearly. Most States and Federal Government will retrench workers as evident in the over 2,000 Federal University workers already sacked’
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Chairman of EKSIEC, Justice Kayode Bamisile, said candidates of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party won all the 16 local government seats and the 177 wards
Governor Fayose, who spoke against the backdrop of the alleged plan by the Federal Government to increase petrol pump price from N87 to N97 per litre, remove fuel subsidy, increase electricity tariffs, retrench thousands of workers, reduce N18,000 minimum wage, re-introduce toll gates among others, said: “If labour leaders do not stand up for the people at this time, as they have done in the past, posterity will not forgive them
Regretting that the governor was “running state affairs like a bukataria”, Olatunbosun said: “The world watched in disbelief as Governor Fayose stormed the House of Assembly during presentation of his 2016 budget proposal in T-shirt and jeans against the official prescription of full native dress or complete English suit during such sittings
According to the House Speaker’s Special Assistant (Media), Stephen Gbadamosi, Fayose presented the document to the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Kola Oluwawole, at a brief ceremony during the House plenary on Tuesday
This image followed an earlier image of the same governor buying ponmo, pepper and palm oil at the open market that had surfaced sometimes early in the year
At a thanksgiving service to mark Ewi of Ado-ekiti’s 25 years on the throne