Get to work and stop lamenting, Fayose’s aide tells Gov Fayemi

Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi has been advised to face governance and stop lamenting over what the immediate past governor, Ayodele Fayose, failed to do.

The advise was handed to Governor Fayemi by the media aide to Fayose, Lere Olayinka, in a statement on Tuesday.

He said, “Fayose has left office and the legacy projects done by his government can be seen by the people of Ekiti. He (Fayemi) should rather use the few months he will spend as governor to redeem his image as a prodigal governor”.

Fayemi was said to have complained that Fayose’s government failed to properly handle the projects he left behind in 2014, especially the Ikogosi Resort, which he accused Fayose of abandoning.

But Olayinka responding said, “As a temporary governor, he (Fayemi) should know that he has a very limited time to spend and should devote his time and resources to things that the people of Ekiti can point to as his achievements after the mandate that was stolen for him might have been retrieved.”

The former governor’s spokesman went further to say, “Ikogosi Resort was never abandoned. Rather, what the Fayose government did was to first hand it over to a private company to manage and when the company left because it was unable to meet up with the expected revenue, the government put machineries in motion to seek private investors to take over the resort.

“As at the time we left government, no private investor had shown interest and rather than making noise, Fayemi should continue from where we stopped by intensifying efforts to seek investors to manage the Ikogosi Resort because there is nowhere in the world where government runs such business profitably.

“Most importantly, it is on record that Fayemi spent over N1.2 billion to renovate the Ikogosi Hotel in 2012, let him tell the public how much revenue his government realized from it before he left office.

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“On the Oba Adejugbe General Hospital, Ado Ekiti, which was uncompleted when Fayemi commissioned it in 2014, initially, we opted for Public Private Partnership (PPP), which did not materialize. Thereafter, through the government’s ‘Saving One Million Lives Project’, it was equipped with close to N15 million at first instance and Fayemi’s government should improve on that instead of lamenting”.

Fayemi’s victory is being challenged by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate, Kolapo Olusola, at the state election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja.

 

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