Fayose justifies septuagenarian’s appointment as council boss

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has stated
that his decision to appoint a 72-year-old
illiterate carpenter, Pa Olatunde Afolayan, as
the caretaker chairman of Moba Local
Government Area of the state, was a way to
appreciate the segment of the population
which the septuagenarian belongs.
He said many elected political office holders
rode on the votes of illiterates and
insignificant people only to forget them after
assuming office.
Fayose claimed that the vote of a professor
and an illiterate is the same, hence the need
for his administration to reward those that are
members of his party, who are not educated
and give them recognition in his government.

Afolayan, who commended the governor for
the kind gesture, said his expectation was not
beyond the position of a ward chairman
because he had never gone to school for a day,
but that does not diminish his intelligence.
“I may not be educated or certificated, but I
have the experience to pilot the affairs of the
council. I promise to surpass the records left
behind by my predecessors to justify
Governor Fayose’s assertion that local people
are intelligent and visionary.”