Ekiti APC suffering from ‘acquired political laziness’ – PDP

Kolapo Olusola Campaign Organisation (KOCO) has attacked the All Progressives Congress (APC) over its comment on the deputy governor’s visit to public schools in Ekiti State.

KOCO, the campaign organisation for Ekiti State deputy governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate for the July 14 governorship election in the state, said the APC is suffering from “acquired political laziness and electoral failure syndrome.”

The party added that “It is strange and funny that the APC will complain about visit to public schools by a sitting deputy governor, who is in charge of education in Ekiti State.”

Olusola had visited some public schools in the state but the state APC attacked him for doing that, accusing him of going to the schools to campaign for votes.

But responding in a statement through its Director of Media and Publicity, Lere Olayinka, KOCO on Wednesday said, “If the APC candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi is not being pursued around by his old shadow of wickedness to Ekiti workers, especially teachers, why is he not also visiting the schools? Or is anyone preventing him?

“What they are obviously afraid of is Prof Kolapo Olusola’s very strong affinity with teachers and pupils in Ekiti State. His father is a retired teacher, his mother retired as a headmistress, his wife is a teacher, and he is a trained teacher himself.

“Whereas, their own candidate is a holder of PhD in war and we wonder why he was not able to assist the federal government to solve the problems of herdsmen killings across the country.”

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Olayinka added, “When we read that puerile press statement from the APC, we couldn’t but laughed because we only saw a party struggling to take the minds of the people away from the fact that less than 40 days to the election, it has not campaigned here in Ekiti.

“If not, why should visit to public schools by the Deputy Governor, who is also supervising the ministry of education and has achieved tremendous results be the headache of the APC?”

While challenging Fayemi to also visit schools in the state, Olayinka said; “Instead of holing himself up in Abuja and Akure, Ondo State, why can’t Dr. Fayemi come to Ekiti and visit teachers in their schools, local government workers in their various council secretariats and the civil servants at the state secretariat.”

 

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