EKITI 2018: APC, Oni will be no match for PDP- Fayose

In what appeared like counting his chicken before they are hatched, Governor Ayodele Fayose has predicted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will dominate the Ekiti gubernatorial poll in 2018.

Reacting to claims attributed to former Governor Segun Oni on the chances of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the coming elections, Fayose said on Sunday that the opposition stood no chance against his party. Oni had earlier declared his intention to join the race for the gubernatorial seat.

But speaking on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti through his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose dismissed APC and Oni as no match for him.

“We defeated them (Alliance for Democracy) in 2003 and recorded a landslide victory against them (APC) in 2014 when their candidate could not even win his local government.

“The 2014 victory was very remarkable because Oni was part of a gang up of three former governors against me and my party and we won convincingly.

“Oni tried unsuccessfully to rubbish my administration’s giant strides in the state during my first tenure and the current one. It was during my first term that we dualised all the roads leading to Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. We repositioned education and improved on the state’s performance in public examinations. We are number one in NECO and among the top states in WAEC examinations,” Fayose said.

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He added, “Now, we are not only dualising roads across 11 local government areas, we have extended the Ado-Ikere Road dualisation deep into Ikere town. Because the APC and its leaders in Ekiti lack foresight, they can never ever see anything good in the flyover, new Ojaba Market, new high court complex, new Governor’s Office and other numerous projects we are executing.”

Accusing APC and its forbears of being responsible for much of Ekiti’s underdevelopment, the governor known for his acerbic attacks on the ruling party, APC, boasted that his administration had been better financial managers of the resources of the State.

“They are simply dumbfounded that in spite of the austere times we are in, our administration has been able to forge ahead with these projects. It is only a leadership that is focused and knows its onions that can place the welfare of majority of people over and above the welfare of minority,” he said.

Fayose has been at daggers-drawn for most part of the Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration and is largely acknowledged as the loudest voice of opposition in the country at the moment.

 

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