Don’t compare me with Fayemi, Oyebanji to Ekiti people

Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has charged people of the state to stop comparing his administration with that of his predecessor, Kayode Fayemi. Oyebanji described the comparison as inappropriate and absolutely unfair in all its measures, saying he doesn’t feel good about the comparison.

The governor stated these in Ido-Ekiti in Ido/Osi Local Government Area, on Friday at a special stakeholders’ engagement marking his 200 days in office against the backdrops of commendation for his administration and condemnation for his predecessor’s administration by the people, particularly social media commentators.

The governor who was visibly angry said comparing his administration with that of ex-governor Fayemi who he described as his leader, amount to a waste of time, noting that his government was an offshoot of the immediate past administration.

“I want to appeal to people not to make a distinction from ex- governor Fayemi-led administration and mine. We are one and I said it again. We’re one. My administration is an offshoot of Fayemi’s administration. So, there’s no distinction between what he has done and what I am doing.

“If Oga were to still be governor, by now most the things I am doing is what he will be doing because this is something we’ve put down together in the developing plan, which is guiding what I am doing. So I appeal to our people particularly on social media.

“I don’t have control on what you say but I appeal to you to moderate your comments. Governor Fayemi is my leader and I will continue to respect him. He has done a lot for this state and still doing it and he needs your prayers for him to do more for us,” he said.

Cataloguing his achievements, Oyebanji said that his government has remained focused and committed on the six-point developmental agenda towards ensuring sustainable socio-economic growth and development. He disclosed that his administration has spent over N31bn on salary, gratuity and pension payments in the last 200 days he assumed office in fulfillment of his electoral promise that priority would be given to workers welfare.

Oyebanji added that his government has paid a staggering sum of N6.2 billion as subvention to state’s tertiary institutions towards strengthening the ivory towers and making them competitive nationally and with their contemporaries in other climes, adding that the Independent Power Project started by the Fayemi-led administration would be operational in July to give uninterrupted power supply to government offices, institutions and streetlights, describing the amount being spent on diesel as unsustainable.

On infrastructural development, Oyebanji, said his government has completed the Ado-Ilawe-Erinjiyan road, while aggressive works are ongoing on Ikole , Ado township roads, while other inter-city access roads across the state are enjoying attention to make them motorable. “All the roads we are going to construct are ones that will bring prosperity and boost trading, farming and ease the movement of farm products to the market centres. We will be strategic by targeting our agricultural belt”.