A mammoth crowd in Efon local government area on Friday trooped out to declare support for the re-election of Governor Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
A statement issued by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Olayinka Oyebode, said the supporters, in their thousands, included teachers, market women, artisans, students and elderly citizens who premised their support on the performance of the governor within three and a half years.
Speaking on behalf of teachers who stormed the Efon Alaaye roundabout, venue of the campaign rally, Mr Olusegun Ojo said the teachers decided to solidarise with the governor for the transformations he brought to the education sector.
Ojo added that the Fayemi-led administration had improved the welfare packages of teachers even as they “are now the best remunerated in the country with different allowances ranging from the rural teachers allowance, core subject allowance and pecuniary allowance” accruing to them.
The Federation of Efon Students’ Union led by Tunde Olowoyeye also declared support for the governor, saying that the investment in the education sector had paid off with an improvement in the results of senior secondary schools in the state.
A former Deputy Speaker of the state Assembly and indigene of Efon, Hon. Karounwi Oladapo, said Fayemi had enjoyed the people’s support in 2007 and 2009 elections, adding that he still believed in the people’s might to retain him as governor come June 21, 2014.
In his remarks, the governor said he had fulfilled his promises to the people of the local government by providing pipe borne water, good road network and other basic amenities.
According to him, a government duly elected by the people will always aspire to meet the yearnings of the people and peace is the hallmark of development in any society.
He said: “I have come here to tell you the truth of things and you should not let alone deceive you that teachers and I are not on good terms, and the strides we have made in the education sector are independently verifiable. You can compare Ekiti State University of now to what it was in the past.
Ask those in the College of Education in Ikere if it is still the same. Those who killed college students and all that we know them for is killing, tell them we won’t allow anyone to turn this state to a battlefield.”
