Fayemi: APC, PDP differ on one year performance

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti state has dismissed the one year administration of Dr Kayode Fayemi-led All Progressive Congress (APC) government as a colossal failure with no visible achievement to showcase. 

But the ruling party in a swift reaction has dismissed the opposition criticism describing it as the ranting of confused persons set out to cause unnecessary distractions and to concoct falsehood.

The PDP had alleged that several billions of Naira collected as allocations to the state from the federal government by the Fayemi-led administration has been grossly mismanaged.

The party had also alleged that this along with other funds and grants were squandered by the administration as patronages to the governor’s cronies.  

In a statement by the Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Jackson Adebayo, the PDP berated Governor Fayemi for dragging Ekiti state back from the development trends he met on ground when he assumed office on October 16, 2018.

The party alleged that Fayemi administration has digressed from all the seriousness that the immediate past government of the PDP put in to accelerate development of infrastructure in the State.

“There is enough opportunity for Governor Fayemi to build upon, rather he has chosen to pull the gear of progress to reverse mode”, the party said.

The PDP maintained that Ekiti state has found itself in this pity situation because the governor and his team are bereft of ideas of building a state but only conspired to snatch power to enrich themselves. 

Adebayo cited the case of the new Oja-Oba international market which was almost completed by the last administration with enough money left for the completion which till today still remained in the state as it was in 2018 October. 

But the APC Publicity Secretary, Hon Ade Ajayi, swiftly dismissed Adebayo’s claims and gave a pass mark to the government.  According him, in the last one year, Governor Fayemi has started off on a strong footing with all indicators of socio-economic development in a positive mode.

“We are greatly appalled at the desperation of the PDP to spread all manners of lies and falsehood against our government.”

“What Fayemi has mainly achieved in his one year in office is grand deception and departure from campaign promises among which is his promise to pay the backlog of salaries and arrears of Ekiti workers”, PDP stated. 

Ajayi stated that the present APC government will continue to focus on its avowed commitment to clear the huge rots left behind by PDP and rescue Ekiti from the clutches of those who held the state by jugular.

“When Governor Fayemi came on board virtually all sectors of the state was in deplorable condition but now the health sector has been reinvigorated, education is taking its pride of place, infrastructures and basic amenities are taking good shape, the economy is improving markedly and the state is enjoying a peaceful ambience devoid of political upheaval.”

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