Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: SUNDAY MUSINGS: In Defence of Kayode Fayemi {Re: Fayose Is Constitutionally Ineligible To Run For Governor

IBK , Thanks a lot for being a realist and not supinely imbibing the
trash that has been postulated by many home based and diaspora
analysts and commentators . Those who are familiar with Yoruba and
Ekiti schools of thought and philosophy know why JKF lost the Ekiti
governorship election . Heaping tonnes of praise on his performance is
of no use . There are rules of engagement and even that of separation
which modernity including internet and social media can not ignore in
a cultural enviroment . Ekitis are all proud of Fayemi as a person .
This is a good achievement which does not mean automatic second term .
Remember we have Egbe Omo Oduduwa and Egbe Omo Olofin in time past as
different approaches to win a battle . What is the difference between
Oduduwa and Olofin !
Fayemi need not bother himself again to govern Ekiti . He should look
forward to bigger roles . Whenever he wants to meet the masses in the
future , he must do so without publicity , without aides and without
other friendenemies .
He should also analyse the analysis of his government and the analysis
of his rejection on June 21st 2014 .

Dr Olatunji Omowumi

On 6/30/14, Ibukunolu A Babajide <ibk2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> Prof. ,
>
> Elevating the obvious lapses and inability to grasp basic fundamentals of
> statecraft because of elitist pride to the analogy of Jesus Christ is not
> only flawed but risible.
>
> Ekiti is not occupied by Rome. There is no Pontius Pilate here. The people
> loved Jesus but the priests hated him because he came with his liberation
> theology. Jesus was unmarried and did not have an Erelu ruling alongside.
>
> Need I continue? The Igbo adage that says if you do not know where the
> rain began to soak you to the skin you may not know how to get out of it.
> This is the time for serious review and an opportunity to meet your people
> at the grass roots and engage with them. The guerrilla tactics of coming
> from abroad to come and Lord it over them is not working.
>
> Cheers.
>
> IBK
> On 30 Jun 2014 10:20, "Mobolaji Aluko" <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Nkolika:
>>
>> May your tribe increase! You cannot imagine how many times I use your
>> reasoning below to comfort MYSELF and others who might come to me
>> wondering
>> how one human being can be so mean or wicked to another, or how one can
>> feel so un-appreciated despite one's effort. Immediately I counsel as
>> you
>> did below, that dispirited person always walks away comforted, saying,
>> "Yes
>> o, I know, I know...."
>>
>> With Jesus Christ, "The stone that was rejected is now the
>> cornerstone......", and there continues to be weak examples among mere
>> mortals.....
>>
>> And there you have it....
>>
>>
>> Bolaji Aluko
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:15 PM, 'Nkolika Ebele' via USA Africa Dialogue
>> Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I do not think we should be very sad about the failure of Fayemi at the
>>> polls. The human spirit has not changed. If Jesus the Christ, the Son of
>>> God, who did so many good things for the people was rejected by the same
>>> people he came to save, who is Fayemi? A prophet is not recognized in
>>> his
>>> homeland. Truth still suffers a lot on earth, and it is even worse in
>>> Nigeria. Those doing the right thing in this country many times look
>>> very stupid. Sometimes, you start wondering if you have done wrong by
>>> not
>>> joining the rat race of self first. But I believe that the time for
>>> people
>>> like Fayemi shall come. A time shall come when only honest and selfless
>>> people shall be in government. I hope we shall all live to see that
>>> time.
>>> This madness cannot continue. I feel sad too but we have to rise above
>>> this
>>> as the Governor himself did.
>>> Nkolika
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* olakassimmd via USA Africa Dialogue Series <
>>> usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
>>> *To:* usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 29, 2014 7:28 PM
>>>
>>> *Subject:* USA Africa Dialogue Series - SUNDAY MUSINGS: In Defence of
>>> Kayode Fayemi {Re: Fayose Is Constitutionally Ineligible To Run For
>>> Governor
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bolaji:
>>>
>>> I read both versions of your timely defence of Gov. Fayemi of Ekiti
>>> state.
>>>
>>> You answered most of the questions that have bothered me in the wake
>>> of the Ekiti guber elections.
>>>
>>> Gov Fayemi epitomizes many of the ideal characteristics any decent
>>> society would
>>> wish in their political leaders. I hope he stays in politics and move on
>>> to serve
>>> in Abuja.
>>>
>>> With their hats aside, both Govs Fayemi and Mimiko remind me of Pa Awo
>>> in
>>> their
>>> approach to politics and public service.
>>>
>>> I commend Gov Fayemi for taking the high road that is less traveled by
>>> Nigerian
>>> politicians following their defeat at the polls. He will not challenge
>>> the results of
>>> the elections at the polls!
>>>
>>> Most of my Ekiti friends in Toronto including those that I had dinner
>>> with last Friday
>>> are silent participants on Nigerian cyberspace. I have no doubt that
>>> they would have already
>>> read your submissions and explanations on behalf of Gov Fayemi.
>>> I have also forwarded the posts to their mail boxes should in case they
>>> missed them.
>>>
>>> We are making some progress in democratic politics in Nigeria, even
>>> though the pace
>>> of the progress might be too slow for what we need.
>>>
>>> Based on eyewitness reports the Ekii elections were free and fair.
>>>
>>> I believe as you wrote that the:
>>>
>>> * "the price of the RICE was the PRIZE" *
>>>
>>> that was at stake and was worn cleanly and clearly
>>> by Fayose, even though his candidacy for the elections might be
>>> contestable.
>>>
>>> As Vince Modebelu has earlier stated the elections are a triumph
>>> of 'the need for immediate gratification--"Stomach Infrastructure"--over
>>> long lasting tangible
>>> infrastructure that would provide better education and has the potential
>>> to provide jobs for
>>> the people in the long run.
>>>
>>> I believe that the factors that tilted the results in favour
>>> of Fayose are the following:
>>>
>>> a
>>> *) the power of incumbency of the office of the Presidency of Nigeria *
>>> that was injected full throttle into the Ekiti elections.
>>>
>>> GEJ didnot only visit Ekiti where he promised to help develop the state
>>> if he is
>>> reelected in 2015, he also pumped significant amounts of
>>> federal funds into the campaign for the PDP in Ekiti state.
>>> I have used the terms
>>> 'federal funds' in the full knowledge that the PDP has no other source
>>> of
>>> funds for its coffers
>>> other than from the federal purse, either directly or indirectly,
>>> legally
>>> or illegally.
>>> Regardless of how the campaign funds were sourced, we must all admit
>>> that
>>> GEJ has
>>> not done anything unusual in this regard. He was only following
>>> precedence!
>>>
>>> I believe that some or most of the missing (un remitted) billions of US
>>> dollars of NNPC funds
>>> would have found their way into the coffers of the ruling party in
>>> anticipation of
>>> any other gubernatorial elections before and in the general elections
>>> next year.
>>>
>>> It would be extremely difficult for a performing governor like Fayemi
>>> who
>>> is averse to diverting
>>> state funds into his re-election campaign to match the infusion of
>>> federal funds
>>> into the Ekiti gubernatorial elections especially so late in the
>>> campaign. This is the difference
>>> between how professional politician operates in contrast to a technocrat
>>> whose main mission
>>> if to get the job of the people done.
>>>
>>> A professional politican who is elected as a governor would divert most
>>> if not all of his
>>> security votes into this campaign war chest in anticipation of the next
>>> campaign,
>>> whilst a technocrat- turned politician would more likely channel
>>> the security votes into additional infrastucture projects and services
>>> that are badly needed by the
>>> people.
>>>
>>>
>>> b) *the escalated security provisions* that were marshaled to ensure
>>> peaceful elections in Ekiti state
>>> also had the undesirable effect of disrupting the plans for the final
>>> rally for the Fayemi
>>> campaign. Some of the invited APC dignitaries including Gov Amechi of
>>> Rivers state were denied
>>> landing rights at the Ado Ekiti Airport
>>> whilst others like Gov. Oshiomoble had his chattered helicopter
>>> impounded.
>>>
>>> The Ekiti elections will go down in history as one in which the sitting
>>> President showed the
>>> opposition parties who is the boss in town!
>>>
>>> The good guys do not always win! I dough my hat to Fayemi!
>>>
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>>
>>> Ola
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---- Original Message ----
>>> From: 'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <
>>> usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
>>> To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
>>> Sent: Sun, Jun 29, 2014 11:18 am
>>> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - SUNDAY MUSINGS: In Defence of
>>> Kayode Fayemi {Re: Fayose Is Constitutionally Ineligible To Run For
>>> Governor
>>>
>>> After this 'defence,' we return to the billion naira question sir: What
>>> went wrong? Fayemi said many things in those interviews. I especially
>>> like
>>> the town hall meetings and 'doing government with the people and not
>>> doing
>>> government for them' which is the essence of what we have been accusing
>>> him
>>> of (i.e. democratic elitism). But then why was he voted out in spite of
>>> all
>>> these?
>>>
>>> One alternative explanation would be a massive *landslide* rigging. Of
>>> course, rigging isn't a new feature of our electoral system, but
>>> 'landslide'? And it isn't as if Fayemi didn't do anything. He *claimed*
>>> he completed 80% of his promised agenda. What is the 'inu' (stomach) the
>>> Ekiti people thought he has neglected build?
>>>
>>> In the final analysis, there is still a perceptual discrepancy between
>>> the people and the government. And that, for me, still remains a deficit
>>> for any government even if you completed 100% of *your* agenda.
>>>
>>>
>>> Adeshina Afolayan
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from Samsung Mobile
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>
>>> Date:
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>>> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - SUNDAY MUSINGS: In Defence of
>>> Kayode Fayemi {Re: Fayose Is Constitutionally Ineligible To Run For
>>> Governor
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> SUNDAY MUSINGS: In Defence of Kayode Fayemi
>>>
>>> by
>>> Mobolaji Aluko, PhD
>>> Alukome@gmail.com
>>> ________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> Sunday June 29, 2014
>>>
>>> Ola Kassim
>>>
>>> The version that went out earlier was PREMATURELY SENT, My apologies.
>>> The complete version - and it is somewhat substantially longer that the
>>> one sent earlier - is below. So please be patient and read to the end.
>>> Your comments are in black, my comments are in red, and quotations are
>>> in
>>> blue.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ola Kassim:
>>>
>>> As you are fully aware, I am from Ekiti State, I am a close friend of
>>> Governor Kayode Fayemi - I took active part in his first election
>>> campaign,
>>> from beginning to the end, but I am not a member of the APC, or any
>>> political party in Nigeria for that matter, and was not active in the
>>> current campaign, for many obvious reasons not un-connected with my
>>> university servant duties...otherwise I would have.
>>> Some statements that you made below - or made on behalf of others - are
>>> quite interesting, but most are very debatable, and I would like to
>>> quickly
>>> take you up on them.
>>>
>>> Please note that I am largely ignoring the ad hominem attacks of the
>>> usual gratuitous caterwaulers, who I can name if they insist on it.
>>>
>>> For ease of reference, I have re-numbered a number of your concerns.
>>>
>>> 1. "If as ably argued by Nebu that Fayose was constiyutionally
>>> ineligible to contest the Ekiti gubernatorial election due to his
>>> previous
>>> impeachment:
>>>
>>> (a) why did INEC despite all the highly paid attorneys on its
>>> payroll
>>> approve his candidacy?
>>>
>>> (b) why did the APC not contest his eligibility to run before the
>>> elections?"
>>>
>>> 1a. For one, INEC is a strange contraption in a strange political
>>> Nigeria. I believe that under Jega, it has taken good positive
>>> strides,
>>> but it has also determined that there are SO MANY issues wrong in both
>>> the
>>> pre-election and during-election issues in Nigeria, done by ALL
>>> political
>>> parties in Nigeria, that if it tried to do anything too controversial
>>> about
>>> them, it could be tied up in court, spin its wheels and spend money
>>> endlessly. At the end of the day it would be accused by ALL parties of
>>> "descending into the political arena." So it has left it to the
>>> political
>>> gladiators THEMSELVES to duke it out.
>>>
>>> At this time of our political development, except for the MOST OBVIOUS
>>> VIOLATIONS - like an impeached candidate trying to run for election
>>> before
>>> the sanction period has expired - it is a wise decision.
>>>
>>> By not acting on this impeachment saga, I believe that by default it
>>> "descended into the political arena."
>>>
>>> 1b. I am NOT in APC, but looking from outside, it was a Catch-22
>>> situation. I was stunned - and I am sure that APC too was stunned -
>>> that
>>> Fayose with all his political baggage was eventually chosen - one would
>>> say
>>> at quite some late hour, on March 22 primary (he won 462 out of 477
>>> votes)
>>> for a June 21 election, with consensus candidate Gbenga Aluko (my
>>> brother) , chosen by the aggrieved candidates on March 30 finally
>>> jettisoned in mid-April or so. I will quote PDP Chairman Muazu after
>>> Fayose's victory, and leave it at that:
>>>
>>> QUOTE
>>>
>>> PDP National Chairman Adamu Mu'azu said the governor-elect of Ekiti
>>> State, Ayo Fayose, would never have been the party's flag bearer if "the
>>> Nigerian factor" were to come in. He said the president gave him the
>>> free
>>> hand to get a reliable gubernatorial candidate for Ekiti, adding that
>>> without Jonathan's support, encouragement and focus, the party would not
>>> have been celebrating. ,,,,, "Fayose, ordinarily, if the Nigerian factor
>>> comes in, will never have been our candidate, but you and I know that
>>> even
>>> after he emerged, some sorts of groups that came to you to report me
>>> that
>>> I've made the wrong choice. More often, when they come to the Villa, Mr.
>>> President will insist that I must be there. I've seen the same people,
>>> I've
>>> appealed to them. Mr. President will still insist for me to hear and
>>> listen. At the end of the day, the truth has prevailed with the support
>>> of
>>> Mr. President," Muazu said.
>>>
>>> UNQUOTE
>>>
>>> Finally, a case is in court, and will be heard tomorrow:
>>>
>>> QUOTE
>>>
>>> Ekiti guber: Court refuses to stop
>>> Fayose from contesting
>>> Posted by: The Citizen in Other News June 17, 2014
>>>
>>> Efforts to stop former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, from
>>> contesting the governorship election on Saturday suffered a setback
>>> yesterday as an Ado-Ekiti High Court on Monday adjourned the case till
>>> June
>>> 30, a week after the election would have been held.
>>>
>>> A socio-political group, known as E-11, which has the likes of Governor
>>> Kayode Fayemi predecessor, Chief Segun Oni and Senator Babafemi Ojudu as
>>> its members, along with the Citizen Party, had sued Fayose over his
>>> alleged
>>> ineligibility to contest the election.
>>>
>>> Among others, the claimants are asking the court to determine whether
>>> Fayose was qualified to contest by virtue of his impeachment in 2006 and
>>> whether he was right to have allegedly given certain false information
>>> to
>>> Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) about his state of
>>> integrity. Both the INEC and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were
>>> joined in the suit.
>>>
>>> The claimants' lead counsel, Mr Norrison Quakers (SAN) had pleaded for
>>> accelerated hearing of the case, because the election in which the
>>> eligibility of the defendant was in question, would be held this
>>> Saturday.
>>>
>>> According to him, the court was empowered under the Electoral Act to
>>> proceed with the case so that his clients would be deemed to have gotten
>>> justice. Norrison submitted that the case was ripe for accelerated
>>> hearing because the defendants had been served notice since Monday,
>>> after
>>> the court ruled that Fayose be served through substituted means. The
>>> counsel to the respondent, Ahmed Raji (SAN) in a counter argument, said
>>> the
>>> case before the court was not ripe enough for hearing since there was no
>>> written application filed to him. He asked the court to give him
>>> seven
>>> days to respond to the filed affidavit which would be given him by the
>>> claimant. Raji said the claimant cannot argue the case orally
>>> because
>>> there was no written application to that effect. He consequently
>>> urged
>>> the court to neither treat the matter as an urgent one nor rush the
>>> proceeding as demanded by the claimant. He said the case could still
>>> continue even if his client eventually wins the Saturday election that
>>> was
>>> in contention. Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi in his ruling, said the rule of
>>> law must be obeyed in the case, concerning the issue of oral or written
>>> affidavit, citing section 39 of the Constitution. He agreed that
>>> there
>>> must be a written affidavit filed by the claimant and given to the
>>> respondent.
>>> The Judge adjourned the case till June 30 for hearing
>>>
>>> UNQUOTE
>>>
>>> Sometimes, the court system in Nigeria uses the adjournment process
>>> either to make issues moot, or to frustrate the litigant - or both. It
>>> is
>>> often the case of the accused killing his parents and claiming leniency
>>> or
>>> acquittal because he is an orphan.
>>>
>>> We shall see what it is in this case, which has merit. I believe that
>>> it
>>> should be pursued, but I do not wish or expect Dr. Kayode Fayemi to gain
>>> from it. I would not support him gaining from it.....he has done his
>>> best,
>>> and he should leave the rest. He still has contributions to make to
>>> Ekiti
>>> State outside of governorship.
>>>
>>> 2, "I agree with Stevek (Steve Kueberuwa) that APC should drop any idea
>>> of challenging the results of the Ekiti elections and the issue of
>>> Fayose's candidacy in court."
>>>
>>> I also agree with you. Governor Fayemi should not challenge anything as
>>> you have stated, but nothing stops other parties from challenging. I
>>> have
>>> so advised. You will remember how long he fought to get his original
>>> mandate....from the outside...2007 to 2010. He should not have to go
>>> through that ordeal again - from the inside. It is not good for him,
>>> for
>>> his family, or for us his friends.
>>>
>>> 3. However, I disagree with SteveK's comments about Fayemi. I do not
>>> see
>>> Fayemi as a hustler. I believe that he is more a technocrat than he s a
>>> professional politician. I believe that this was the main reason for his
>>> defeat in Ekiti despite having performed well within the means
>>> of at his disposal.
>>>
>>> It is a crassly idiotic statement to call Fayemi a hustler, especially
>>> by
>>> a person who probably has NEVER met him face to face. And Fayemi won his
>>> first election to be governor as a technocrat/activist foraying into
>>> politics, not as a professional politician, so how can he lose it for
>>> that
>>> same reason? Who knows may be lost it because he became TOO MUCH of a
>>> "professional politician", listening too much to some "professional
>>> politicians?"
>>>
>>> Here is Fayemi talking about himself and his politics recently:
>>>
>>> QUOTE
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.channelstv.com/2014/01/11/ive-delivered-at-least-80-percent-of-my-promises-fayemi/
>>>
>>> I've Delivered At Least 80 Percent Of My Promises- Fayemi
>>>
>>> The Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi on Saturday assessed his
>>> performance in office which he scored at 80 percent, adding that he has
>>> delivered on every category of promise he made in his inaugural speech
>>> and
>>> on the "Road Map To Ekiti Recovery: The 8 Point Agenda."
>>>
>>> Speaking on Channels Television's breakfast programme, Sunrise, Governor
>>> Fayemi who had secured his mandate as governor after several court cases
>>> said the struggle was worth it as "any opportunity to serve the people is
>>> a
>>> worthy opportunity."
>>> According to him, "public service is the highest form of duty that any
>>> citizen can render to society."
>>> He said that "In spite of the difficulties on the journey to power, I
>>> have found it immensely worthy of the struggle we waged in order to get
>>> here."
>>>
>>> Governor Fayemi who recalled his days of activism said the "the
>>> opportunity that being in the seat of power offers to fundamentally
>>> affect
>>> lives is something you can't really get outside of being in public
>>> service"
>>> and that his involvement in politics has afforded him the power to
>>> affect
>>> lives.
>>>
>>> "I've been an activist all my life. I still consider myself an activist.
>>> My politics is an extension of my activism," he said, adding that things
>>> he
>>> was not able to do as an activist became easy as governor. He
>>> highlighted
>>> some of his achievements in office including free education up till
>>> secondary level, free health care for the vulnerable segment of our
>>> population, the first social security benefit scheme for the elderly.
>>>
>>> He challenged critics to examine his inaugural speech to critique the
>>> promises he had made against his 3 years and 3 months stay in office.
>>> "I am delivering on all the promises I made. I have not delivered
>>> completely on all of them but on each and every one of those promises,
>>> known as Road Map To Ekiti Recovery: The 8 Point Agenda, you will find
>>> that
>>> they are at least 80 percent completed."
>>>
>>> "I've been able to affect lives. I've been able to deliver on our
>>> socio-democratic agenda as a political party that believes in pulling up
>>> the weak and vulnerable in society. That, without a doubt, is what I've
>>> done in office."
>>>
>>> Despite the fact that Ekiti is renowned for breeding many top scholars
>>> in
>>> the nation, critics have said its current state of education has reduced
>>> it
>>> to the bottom five. However, Governor Fayemi said the claim is not fact
>>> but
>>> opinion. He stressed that "Ekiti today has had one of the most meteoric
>>> rise in terms of performance in public examination."
>>>
>>> He further noted that: "When I became governor in 2010, Ekiti had a 20
>>> percent pass rate in public examination. 20 percent of those who sat for
>>> WASCE had 5 credits including English and Maths" but the latest results
>>> in
>>> the 2013 edition of the same examination revealed that the percentage
>>> had
>>> moved to 70 percent."
>>> "Christ School in Ado Ekiti moved from nine percent to 99 percent."
>>>
>>> Asked the strategies implemented to achieve the increase, he said a task
>>> force chaired by late Professor Sam Aluko had been commissioned to help
>>> improve the quality of education.
>>> Also, the infrastructure had been rehabilitated to create conducive
>>> learning environment. 183 secondary schools and 856 primary schools were
>>> renovated and refurbished. The system of administration was also changed
>>> which ensured that one principal was in charge of a school as opposed to
>>> the former system which had "one principal for junior secondary school
>>> (boys), junior secondary school (girls), senior secondary school (boys)
>>> and
>>> senior secondary school (girls)."
>>>
>>> UNQUOTE
>>>
>>> 4. The Ekitis have once again taught all Nigerians a lesson.
>>> Politicians
>>> should never take the people for granted.
>>>
>>> Quite frankly, nobody was taken for granted, and no new lessons are to
>>> be
>>> learnt, except that EMPLOYMENT - which is REALLY what "stomach
>>> infrastructure" is about - is always uppermost in many people's minds.
>>> And if you can convince us that there are enough jobs YET from all your
>>> many programs, spare us some raw cash and raw rice (food) in the
>>> interim!
>>> The Price of Rice was the Prize.
>>>
>>> Just as an Elderly Peoples welfare cash scheme was introduced, a
>>> Work-Fare Cash Scheme for Youths - aka dole in addition to the YCAD
>>> scheme
>>> - could have been introduced. But it had to be sustainable....
>>>
>>> 5. No one amongst my friends and acquitances from Ekiti in the Toronto
>>> area has expressed any surprise at the results of the Ekiti guber
>>> elections. They all said they saw it coming and that the results fully
>>> reflected the will of their relatives and friends in Ekiti state and
>>> across
>>> Nigeria. Even though they do not like Fayose, they personally -and
>>> their
>>> relatives in Nigeria found the Fayemi administration too distant and too
>>> aloof for their taste. I was surprised but at the same time not
>>> surprised
>>> at these comments. I was not suprrised because the Ekiti are generally
>>> forthright and steadfast in stating and holding their positions on the
>>> issues of the day. I was surprised because I didnot see it coming.
>>>
>>> I call this 20/20 Monday quarter-backing. Did they suddenly become your
>>> "friends an acquaintances" AFTER the election, and that is why you could
>>> not have this conversation to be better enlightened BEFORE the election?
>>>
>>> 6. Like most Nigerians abroad, I had thought things were going on quite
>>> well under Gov. Fayemi in Ekiti state.
>>>
>>> Any objective person would tell you that "things were qoing quit well"
>>> -
>>> except for those who genuinely wanted more pavement of stomach
>>> infrastructure, both of themselves and of their neighbors.
>>>
>>> The litany of complaints (true or false) against the outgoing Fayemi
>>> administration that I heard yesterday from my Ekiti friends during
>>> dinner
>>> at one our local Bukas---The Ola Restaurant include the following:
>>>
>>> 7) Even though Fayemi is a decent and well educated man, he lacked the
>>> 'personal touch'. he was too distant from his people.
>>>
>>> Clearly decent and well-educated, I do not agree that he lacked
>>> "personal touch" - not with the Elderly, or women, or youths. People
>>> forget that he got onto the Governorship in October 2011 after
>>> hard-fought
>>> election re-run battles, and once you get on there, you have to
>>> re-evaluate
>>> ALL the work of a kicked-out administration that had been there
>>> illegally
>>> for almost three years. Then you have to re-establish your agenda, and
>>> before you know it, 2013 is upon you, and Election 2014 is around the
>>> corner.
>>>
>>> Some quotes on his MANY MANY town meetings:
>>>
>>> QUOTE
>>>
>>> http://ekitistate.gov.ng/2013/11/citizens-needs-not-politics-necessitated-our-town-hall-meetings-fayemi/
>>>
>>> Citizens' Needs, Not Politics, Necessitated Our Town Hall Meetings -
>>> Fayemi
>>>
>>> Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi (Middle), being welcome into the
>>> Ikere-Ekiti, during the tour of the Local Government.
>>>
>>> Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has explained that the 2013 town
>>> hall meetings he is holding in communities across the state is not
>>> politically motivated. He said it was borne out of the respect his
>>> administration has for the opinions of the masses who "put me in
>>> government".
>>>
>>> The Governor gave this explanation on Monday during the second day of
>>> the
>>> meetings in 13 communities in Ikole Local Government Area, that his pact
>>> with the people was to "do government with them and not do government to
>>> them", hence they must have inputs in how they are governed.
>>>
>>> Dr. Fayemi added that it was inappropriate for a governor to just sit
>>> down in the state capital and decide what he felt the people needed when
>>> the people's needs actually differ from the governor's perception.
>>>
>>> This, he said, is the reason for the annual town hall meetings to enable
>>> the communities have direct input in the budget preparations so that the
>>> budget would in reality be owned by the people and serve their needs.
>>>
>>> At Odo-Ayedun where the community requested more fund to complete the
>>> perimeter fencing of the Oba's palace, the Governor said that the
>>> grants-in-aid programme of the administration was just to lend a helping
>>> hand to the communities in carrying out their self-help projects, and not
>>> a
>>> way to usurp the functions of the State Social and Community-based
>>> Development Agency which is empowered by the World Bank and State
>>> Government to help communities with their priority projects.
>>>
>>> He urged political appointees from each community to return home and
>>> support their community development projects; saying that they are
>>> appointed into government as representatives of their communities.
>>> Also reacting on some communities' plea for deployment of teachers to
>>> schools in the affected communities, the Governor warned teachers
>>> against
>>> influencing postings to rural areas but urged them to accept the
>>> postings
>>> and benefit from the Rural teacher posting allowance which is paid to
>>> teachers serving in rural areas.
>>>
>>> Some of the affected communities had mentioned that they did not have
>>> more than one teacher, the headmistress and her assistant in a whole
>>> school, while some stated that corps members are the ones teaching the
>>> pupils as a result of inadequate teaching staff.
>>> Fayemi however assured that the situation would be urgently visited to
>>> enable the schools have more teaching staff.
>>>
>>> On the construction of Oke-Ako - Itapaji road, the Governor asserted
>>> that
>>> the road would be constructed not just because it is the request made by
>>> the communities but because government would soon start an irrigation
>>> project at Itapaji Dam and this would open the communities to more
>>> traffic
>>> as agro-businesses would change the face of the communities.
>>> He assured them that Itapaji water booster station would also get
>>> special
>>> attention in next year's budget as government has now placed priority
>>> attention on the water sector.
>>>
>>> Governor Fayemi also urged unemployed youths in the area to exploit the
>>> opportunities that the agrarian nature of the local government area
>>> offers
>>> by engaging in agro-businesses so that the fertile land would not lay
>>> fallow.
>>>
>>> All the communities trooped out to welcome the Governor and tabled
>>> before
>>> him their requests as well as showered encomium on him for the
>>> development
>>> that their communities have witnessed under his administration.
>>>
>>> Speaking for Iyemero Community, Mr Moses Osasona said the community was
>>> once described as a "remote area" and suffered infrastructural neglect
>>> by
>>> successive governments but the administration of Dr Fayemi has brought
>>> it
>>> to a new dawn .
>>>
>>> "Iyemero Ekiti people had suffered infrastructural neglect by successive
>>> governments but you stood up and ensured that Iyemero people are now
>>> enjoying infrastructural development. On this occasion, we cannot but
>>> make
>>> specific reference to those things that the Fayemi's three year tenure
>>> has
>>> given birth to in Iyemero which include electrification of Iyemero
>>> powered
>>> by a brand new transformer, which the people of the community have been
>>> denied for almost a thousand years", he said.
>>>
>>> The Governor inaugurated seven projects during the meetings.
>>> These included a Police Station at Ijesa-isu, Community information
>>> centre at Ilamo, a Health Centre at Otunja, blocks of classrooms and
>>> examination hall at Odo Oro, and the installation of a 200KVA
>>> transformer
>>> at Oke Ayedun, among others.
>>>
>>> _____________________________________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>> http://ekitistate.gov.ng/2013/11/participatory-governance-fayemi-holds-town-hall-meetings-inspects-community-projects/
>>>
>>> Participatory Governance: Fayemi Holds Town Hall Meetings, Inspects
>>> Community Projects
>>>
>>> L-R: Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Olomuo of Omuo-Ekiti, Oba
>>> Noah Omonigbeyin; and his wife, Olori Oluwayemisi (Sitting), during this
>>> Year's Town, Villages and Communities meeting, ahead of Budget 2014, in
>>> Omuo-Ekiti.
>>>
>>> In furtherance of the commitment of his administration to participatory
>>> governance, Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Friday kick
>>> started
>>> his annual tour of Ekiti communities/ town hall meetings ahead of the
>>> 2014
>>> budget preparations with many of the communities erupting in jubilation
>>> as
>>> they welcome the Governor to their communities.
>>>
>>> Unlike the previous editions of the town hall meetings where all
>>> communities in each of the 16 local government areas of the state would
>>> converge on a location at the LGA headquarter, to make their needs known
>>> to
>>> the Governor, the current edition is held in each community of the
>>> council.
>>>
>>> The Governor had visited and held town hall meetings in about ten
>>> communities in the first day of the tour. These include : Ilasa, Ikun
>>> Oba,
>>> Araromi Oke, Eda Ile, Kota Ekiti, Omuo Oke, Ayegunle-Ahan, Isinbode and
>>> Omuo Ekiti. The leaders of the communities also presented their areas of
>>> priorities to the Governor for inclusion in the 2014 appropriation.
>>>
>>> Speaking during the meetings at Ekiti East Local Government, Governor
>>> Fayemi said the meeting was imperative so as to feel the people's
>>> impulse,
>>> get their inputs for the preparation of the 2014 appropriation bill and
>>> inspect community projects.
>>> Fayemi who inaugurated some projects including a civic centre, a block
>>> of health workers quarters and a community viewing centre at Ikun-Oba,
>>> Eda
>>> Ile and Araromi-Oke respectively, also inspected some self-help projects
>>> for which the State Government recently disbursed N600 million as
>>> grants-in-aid to the communities.
>>>
>>> The Governor, while responding to the various requests of the
>>> communities
>>> which ranged from autonomy to other basic amenities, assured them of the
>>> inclusion of many of the requests in the budgeting process.
>>>
>>> On the request made by Araromi-Ugbeshi for autonomy, Fayemi urged the
>>> leaders of the community to follow due process by approaching the
>>> Council
>>> of Traditional Rulers in the State, a body which is empowered to make
>>> recommendations to the Governor before autonomy is granted.
>>>
>>> At Omuo Oke, the Governor explained that the delay in the construction
>>> of
>>> the trailer park was not unconnected to the ongoing review of the design
>>> for the park but assured that the contractor handling the project would
>>> soon return there for a befitting job.
>>>
>>> He reiterated his commitment to reconstructing boundary roads leading to
>>> the state so as to boost the socio-economic life of the people.
>>> Some of the community leaders who spoke to newsmen commended the
>>> Governor
>>> for organizing the town hall meetings, which they claimed had brought a
>>> human face to governance in Ekiti State. Hey claimed that the town hall
>>> meetings was a reflection of how much importance Governor Fayemi places
>>> on
>>> the opinion of the citizens.
>>>
>>> They expressed their appreciation for the sincerity demonstrated by the
>>> government adding that those things they asked for in the 2012 edition
>>> of
>>> the Town hall meetings had already being completed or about being
>>> completed.
>>>
>>> The Governor was accompanied by members of his cabinet who took turn to
>>> take note of requests that are related to their respective ministries.
>>> _______________________________________________________
>>>
>>> UNQUOTE
>>>
>>>
>>> 8) Even though Fayemi built roads and some other infrastructure, he was
>>> using foreign (Syrian) contractors --through Tinubu in Lagos and not
>>> local
>>> ones. In short they accused Fayemi of outsoucing the governance of Ekiti
>>> state from Tinubu in Lagos. This is probably false!
>>>
>>> 9) Building, ownership and operation of a University in Ghana by Gov.
>>> Fayemi's wife; according to one of my Ekiti friends--the people couldn't
>>> see any difference between whether it is owned by Fayemi or his wife.
>>>
>>> Both of these assertion are false.
>>> It is best to repeat Chief of Staff Yemi Adaramodu's interview:
>>>
>>> QUOTE
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.oranmiyan.org/2014/05/18/adaramodu-factors-will-earn-fayemi-re-election/
>>>
>>> How will you react to the allegation that most of the contracts awarded
>>> by this government were given to foreign contractors thereby encouraging
>>> capital flight?
>>>
>>> The truth is that 80 per cent of contractors doing the roads were met
>>> working in the state by this government. Dotmot was met in Ekiti; he is
>>> a
>>> local contractor. ROSCO was met here; ICF was met in Ekiti State. The
>>> renovation of all secondary schools and General Hospitals was done by
>>> local
>>> contractors. Even in some few projects being handled by light skinned
>>> people, the curb workers there are our people. Because the governor
>>> insisted on local content, all their workers, artisans and supervisors
>>> are
>>> from this state. This is a state policy strictly adhered to.
>>>
>>> When people want to play politics, they can say anything but facts are
>>> sacred. Ekiti people are however wiser and they know what is going on.
>>> No
>>> matter what these political marauders are saying, people cannot be
>>> fooled.
>>> Anywhere Mr Governor goes, people acknowledged what he has done in their
>>> communities and pray for him to continue the good work. Even at that,
>>> you
>>> cannot expect the crash politicians who have nothing to say to just go
>>> and
>>> sleep, they must say something and be ready to criticise.
>>> We always say that Ekiti election should be on issues but they will not
>>> do that. They said Mr Governor has built a university in Ghana, but we
>>> challenge them to give us the address of the university, the name of the
>>> Vice Chancellor, when did they do their matriculation or graduation,
>>> which
>>> courses they offer, bring a student from the university and let him
>>> confirm. We all know that many lies will be flying especially when they
>>> cannot provide a better alternative. But Ekiti people know that we have
>>> never had it so good like this. The rhythm is so pleasant to them and
>>> they
>>> do not want it to stop.
>>>
>>> UNQUOTE
>>>
>>> 10) He closed down poultry projects that former Gov. Oni had started
>>> sending many newly employed graduates onto the unemployment lines.
>>>
>>> It was Fayose who had poultry projects, while Oni had cow projects.
>>> Fayemi had human projects - but a few poultry projects of his own!
>>>
>>>
>>> QUOTE
>>>
>>> http://ekitistate.gov.ng/2014/01/why-we-cant-revive-fayoses-poultry-farms-fayemi/
>>>
>>> Why We Can't Revive Fayose's Poultry Farms - Fayemi
>>>
>>> Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi (R); with Commissioner for
>>> Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. Babajide Arowosafe, during an
>>> inspection of one of the State's Poultry hubs, an initiative of the
>>> Youth
>>> in Commercial Agricultural Development (YCAD) Programme, at Ikere-Ekiti.
>>>
>>> Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has said that the poultry farms
>>> initiated and abandoned by one of his predecessors, Mr Ayo Fayose, could
>>> not be revived because the poultry project was never designed to
>>> succeed.
>>>
>>> The Governor disclosed this to newsmen on Monday shortly after an
>>> inspection of a poultry farm and processing plant established by his
>>> administration in Ikere and Ado Ekiti respectively. He said the poultry
>>> project of the Fayose-led government was not designed as a viable
>>> project.
>>> This, he said, explained the reason the present government has not
>>> bothered to resuscitate it like it did some other moribund projects and
>>> industries established by past administrations.
>>>
>>> Governor Fayemi, who was conducted round the poultry farm and processing
>>> plant by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr jide Arowosafe, stated
>>> that
>>> Fayose's poultry project which gulped more than a billion naira also did
>>> not have a sustainability plan, adding that there was no equipment in
>>> the
>>> processing plant purportedly put in place by the erstwhile governor in
>>> his
>>> country home, Afao Ekiti.
>>> He stressed that his administration had put in place a processing plant
>>> in Ado- Ekiti for farmers under the Youth in Commercial Agriculture
>>> Development (YCAD) with less than N20 million while the Fayose-led
>>> government merely paid lip service to the people of the State having
>>> expended a whopping sum on a similar project that never took off.
>>> It is recalled that Fayose is still being tried by the Economic and
>>> Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations of misappropriation
>>> of
>>> the funds meant for the poultry project.
>>>
>>> Governor Fayemi said: "This government is serious about agriculture and
>>> we are not playing lip service to it. The Fayose farms are not even
>>> revivable if you look at them. The Benin-Owena poultry farm that we have
>>> revived, you can see the quality of the building. We put less than N50
>>> million to revive those huge poultry units along Ikere-Ise road. If you
>>> compare it to those wooden sheds that are called poultry farms by the
>>> previous administration, they have already collapsed; they have all
>>> crashed
>>> because they were not meant to last in the first instance. It is obvious
>>> why we are confident that, placed side by side the antecedent of our
>>> predecessor, the difference is like 7up.
>>>
>>> "The processing plant is put in place for YCAD with less than N20
>>> million, what we have done for our YCAD farmers with less than 20
>>> million
>>> is what was done in this state a few years ago with over a billion naira
>>> that is still the subject of investigation now. The project never saw
>>> the
>>> light of the day. There was no processing plant, there was just a
>>> building
>>> put up in Afao that was supposed to lead to the processing plant but
>>> there
>>> was no equipment there. If you go to all the units in the 16 local
>>> government areas you will know what I am talking about", he said.
>>>
>>> While reiterated the commitment of his administration to making Ekiti
>>> the
>>> food basket of the South-West, the Governor stated that the processing
>>> plant has the capacity to process no fewer than 2,000 birds on daily
>>> basis
>>> as Ekiti is poised to supply the State and neighbouring states with
>>> fresh
>>> frozen chicken.
>>> Fayemi said he was confident that this will turn around the fortune of
>>> poultry farmers in the State and improve on government's efforts in the
>>> sector in the last three years.
>>> "What you see here is a processing plant that can daily treat 2,000
>>> birds right from scalding to feathering and sending it to the market.
>>> The
>>> poultry will feed the processing plant. You have seen the cold room and
>>> the
>>> various processing units before it gets to the market through the
>>> Fountain
>>> Markets.", he added.
>>>
>>> Also speaking, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources,
>>> Mr
>>> Arowosafe said the processing plant has started a test-run but would in
>>> the
>>> coming week begin full production.
>>>
>>> The Commissioner explained that the state has 27,000 birds and is in
>>> talks with business organizations from different parts of the country to
>>> market the product while this will also reduce the stress of Ekiti
>>> consumers in travelling to other states to get frozen chicken.
>>>
>>> UNQUOTE
>>>
>>> 11) Gov. Fayemi's recent problems with teachers in the state over their
>>> salaries.
>>>
>>> Paying salaries are a problem nationwide, but his Administration had a
>>> problem with teachers not wanting to take Assessment tests. I agree
>>> that
>>> it should have been introduced differently, and I voiced so then.
>>>
>>> QUOTE
>>>
>>> http://www.punchng.com/news/ekiti-teachers-shun-fayemis-test/
>>>
>>> Ekiti teachers shun Fayemi's test
>>> JUNE 5, 2012 BY FEMI MAKINDE, ADO-EKITI
>>>
>>> Teachers in public primary and secondary schools in Ekiti State on
>>> Monday
>>> shunned the Teachers' Development Need Assessment - a test organised by
>>> the
>>> state government.
>>> The teachers refused to turn out at the 39 designated centres for the
>>> compulsory test which had generated a lot of controversies between the
>>> government and the over 16,000 teachers in the state.
>>>
>>> Some of the teachers said they were told that the examination centres
>>> had
>>> been laced with charms. and that anybody who sat for the test would die
>>> a
>>> mysterious death.
>>>
>>> Our correspondent, who visited some of the examination centres, observed
>>> that the teachers obeyed the directive of the Nigeria Union of Teachers
>>> to
>>> proceed on strike instead of writing the TDNA.
>>>
>>> Although some of the officials to conduct the test and security
>>> operatives were seen at the examination venues, the teachers did not
>>> show
>>> up.
>>>
>>> The Area Education Officer of Ado-Ekiti Local Government, Mr. Gabriel
>>> Ojo, who was deployed to Ola Oluwa Muslim Grammar School, Ado-Ekiti to
>>> conduct the test told journalists that teachers did not come for the
>>> TDNA.
>>>
>>> He said the "supervisors and the invigilators and the question papers
>>> were ready but the teachers refused to obey government's directive to
>>> sit
>>> for the test."
>>>
>>> Ojo said the government had organised a seminar for the teachers between
>>> 9am and 12 noon before the test would be administered.
>>>
>>> The Education Secretary at Ikere, Mrs. Taiwo Ajayi, who was drafted to
>>> African Church Comprehensive High School, said just one teacher turned
>>> up
>>> for the test but went back.
>>>
>>> Some of the resource persons, who were billed to lecture the teachers
>>> before the test, were seen at St. Louis Grammar School, Ikere.
>>> The leader of the group from the Faculty of Education at the Awolowo
>>> University, Prof. Bayode Popoola, said his team was in the state to
>>> lecture
>>> the teachers but nobody had shown up for the test.
>>> He said other teams came from the University of Ibadan and the Ekiti
>>> State University.
>>>
>>> UNQUOTE
>>>
>>> 12) Even though hindsight always has the benefit of 20:20 vision, I am
>>> surprised no one close to the Fayemi government was atuned to the above
>>> alleged complaints at least soon enough that some corrective actions
>>> could
>>> have been taken!
>>>
>>> As you can read above, some of the complaints were non-complaints, while
>>> those that were there were people aware of them. Whether corrective
>>> actions were ENOUGH, or COULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH is another matter
>>> entirely.
>>>
>>> But the fat person - male or female - has not sung yet.
>>>
>>> And there you have it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bolaji Aluko
>>>
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