Fayose promises Ekiti artisans, techicians N200m village

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said that his administration, in conjunction with some banks, would build an artisans’ village along Ikere Road, Ado-Ekiti, the state capital
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    He made the disclosure in Ado-Ekiti while meeting with artisans and members of the Nigerian Automobile Technicians Association (NATA) at the Jibowu Hall, Government House, Ado-Ekiti.

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  In a press release on Wednesday by Mr. Idowu Adelusi, the Chief Press Secretary, the governor was quoted as saying that the project could cost the state about N200 million.
The meeting, which was called to resolve the dispute between the Ekiti Artisans’ Association and NATA over the parcel of land where the proposed village would be built, resolve?d that a committee should be set up to find ways in which the two unions could work together.

While pleading their case before the governor, ? Mr. Alo Babatunde, the Ekiti State chairman of NATA, said the land was allocated to them by the state government during the first tenure of Fayose about 10 years ago, and that the National Automotive Council had concluded plans to build an automotive centre for them on the land.

He said members of his association were surprised to hear that the other group had gone there early this year to clear the plot for another purpose.

Fayose Of More Worth To Biafran Struggle Than “Coward” Igbo Governors – MASSOB

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has declared that Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, is worth more to its cause than some political office holders in the Southeast, who it described as “stooges and cowards”.

Gov. Fayose had last Saturday faulted the application by the federal government to secretly try the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, by using mask-wearing prosecution witnesses.

The governor had described the move as a mockery of democracy.

In its reaction, MASSOB, in a statement signed on Monday by its leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu, condemned the silence of some Igbo Governors and federal lawmakers on the plight of Kanu and other detained Biafran agitators, wondering “if Igbo blood is running in their veins”.

While hailing Governor Fayose for his staunch support for the defense of the detained IPOB leader and non-violent Biafran agitators, the group said: “Governor Fayose’s sympathy on Biafra and outburst against Buhari led wicked administration, which exhibited religious, ethnic and personal hatred has proved him as a true nationalist, who has the interest of the people at heart”.

The factional MASSOB leader lamented that whereas Governors from the northern part of the country were collaborating with Boko Haram, just as their Southwest counterparts were doing with the Odua People’s Congress, OPC, their Southeast counterparts have refused to identify with the genuine Biafra struggle.

According to Madu, “The northern and western Governors/senators openly and secretly collaborate and work with Boko-Haram and Odua People’s congress (OPC) respectively for the interest of their ethnic block but their Igbo counterparts are always shying away as cowards”.

While expressing delight that some Niger-Delta groups have joined the Biafran struggle, he said, “The rising of more south-south groups for Biafra, with the existing ones from south-east shall spell more doom for Nigeria unless Nnamdi Kanu and other agitators are released, which will soften the tempo of the current agitation.

“MASSOB under my leadership will continue to maintain our non-violent principles and work in collaboration with other genuine Biafran groups both at home and in Diaspora and other relevant international organizations in preparation of Biafran referendum, which the major part have been achieved”.

Fayose Stops His Convoy To Interact With An Old Woman In Ekiti(photos)

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.”

Gov. Fayose seen checking Licenses of motorists in the state

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Ekiti warns ‘Fayose boys’ over attacks on residents

Political violence returned to Ekiti State on Friday as innocent persons were allegedly attacked at various locations in the state. The Ekiti State Government has, however, called on security agencies and residents to help in arresting the people claiming to be Governor Ayodele Fayose boys. In a statement on Saturday, the governor’s Special Adviser on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, raised the alarm over some unscrupulous people now attacking innocent people, “claiming that Governor Ayodele Fayose sent them.” The State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Tope Aluko, had on Friday told our correspondent how he escaped assassination attempt at the PDP secretariat in Ado Ekiti. In a telephone interview with our correspondent on Friday night, Aluko said, “I came out of the car and was moving towards the office when the people came from their hideout and opened fire at me in company with one of my aides. We quickly ran for cover. “The assassins quickly escaped from the scene in a car parked across the road, probably thinking we won’t survive the attack.” The state Police Public Relations Officer, Alberto Adeyemi, however, said he had yet to receive any report on the incident. On Saturday, the state government, in the statement, said, “One Prince Bunmi Ademolaju was attacked at a popular hotel in Ado-Ekiti on Friday. The government statement read in part, “The Ekiti State Government wishes to inform the general public that some unscrupulous people now go about attacking innocent residents of the state, claiming that Governor Ayodele Fayose sent them. “Yesterday, Friday, July 31, one Prince Bunmi Ademolaju was attacked at a popular hotel in Ado- Ekiti. Those who attacked him were said to have shouted that they were Governor Fayose’s boys. “We have it on good authority that the plot of these unscrupulous elements is to go about attacking notable indigenes of Ekiti State and claiming that they were sent by Governor Fayose.” The government, who distanced itself from the reported attacks, said the trend might be another plot to discredit Fayose by those who had lost every war they waged against him. it added, “By announcing that they were Governor Fayose’s boys, the motive of the criminals has no doubt been exposed, and it cannot be anything other than to set the people against the governor. “We therefore wish to state categorically that Governor Fayose does not harbour criminals. He does not have boys anywhere, not to talk of sending them to attack innocent residents of Ekiti State. “Anyone caught attacking or assaulting residents of Ekiti State in the name of ‘Governor Fayose’s Boys’ should be apprehended and handed over to law enforcement agents for appropriate action. “Once again, we state that Governor Fayose does not habour criminals under whatever guise. “Ekiti people and the law enforcement agents should take note of this new trend of criminality obviously coming from those whose only interest is to make Ekiti State impossible just because they lost power.”

Ekiti shuts five private hospitals

Ekiti State Ministry of Health has shut five private hospitals in the state for not complying with government's operational guidelines. The affected hospitals are Devine Citadel Hospital, Ado-Ekiti; Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Maternity and Hospital, Emure Ekiti; Emmanuel Medical Clinic, Emure Ekiti; Lexical Clinic, Ise Ekiti and JOA Medical Centre, Ado-Ekiti. According to a statement from the Ministry of Information on Thursday, the clinics were sealed for offences including operating in an unhygienic environment, using unqualified and inadequate personnel as well as non-registration of their health facilities and failure to renew their operational licenses. Speaking in Ado Ekiti on the development, the Director Hospital Services and Training, Dr. Kola Adu, who led the Ministry's monitoring team stressed that any hospital found wanting would be made to face the wrath of the law. He cautioned patients against patronising unlicensed private clinics, adding that the ministry commenced an aggressive monitoring and inspection of all private health institutions to maintain a reasonable standard in the health care sector to further reduce mortality and morbidity rate in the state. Adu also charged other private health facilities in the state to properly register and renew their operational licenses, saying that the state Government would not hesitate to invoke the full weight of the law on erring proprietors. He added that the proprietors of the sealed hospitals had been directed to report to the ministry, stressing that anyone that failed to comply would be further sanctioned.