LGs CREATION: FAYEMI PLOTTING TO SET EKITI AGAINST FAYOSE, SAYS BAMIDELE

A member of House of Representatives and Labour Party Chieftain, Hon Michael Opeyemi Bamidele has described Governor Kayode Fayemi’s intention to create more Local Governments few months to the expiration of his tenure, as attempt to set the people of the State against the incoming administration.

Bamidele said for Governor Fayemi to have mooted the idea of creating more local Governments at the twilight of his administration confirmed that he is insensitive to the plights of Ekiti people.

Fayemi, who lost the Saturday’s election to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Ayodele Fayose, would bow out of office onOctober 16, 2014.

The outgoing Governor on Tuesday received a report from the Local Government creation committee , chaired by a retired High Court Judge,
Justice Akin Ajakaye, recommending the creation of Local Council Development Areas from the existing 16 Local Governments in the State
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Bamidele, in a statement in Ado-Ekiti yesterday by his Media Aide, Ahmed Salami, said he expected the outgoing Governor at this critical time to concentrate his energy on how to combat the rising wave of youth unemployment in the State, rather than trying to create unnecessary impediment for the coming administration.

The Federal Lawmaker, said the outgoing Governor would do a great disservice to the State if he carries out the policy, when he knew that he had already incurred N25 billion debt for the succeeding government to defray.

Bamidele said, “The purported resolve of Governor Fayemi to create more Local Governments in the twilight of his administration is ill-timed and he has to forget about it if he truly means well for
Ekiti and its development.

“This move only confirms Fayemi’s insensitivity to sustainable development in the State because he is embarking on a policy that can bring internal strife and brew animosity that can consume the present government and create serious impediment for incoming government.

“This is a governor who superimposed himself on the entire state by appointing his cronies as local government caretakers and supervisory councilors, denying the third tier both financial and administrative autonomy as stipulated by the law of the country. It is on record how Fayemi maneuvered their finances and manipulated the council personnels in the local governments which prompted massive protest votes against him on Saturday”

He went further that, “No amount of image-redemption could save Fayemi, rather he should give accounts of his stewardship while in office. Fayemi should know that the process of Local Government development council creation is one that is sensitive and requires all arms of government to ratify. The move only shows insensitivity of Governor Fayemi to the sustainable development of Ekiti State”

“Rather than strive to complete ongoing projects and prepare his handover note, the move is ploy to set Ekiti people in collusion course against the incoming administration and make it appear anti-development from the beginning”