Hottestgistnaija.com
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, led no fewer than 12 governors and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday to Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, to present flag to the party’s governorship candidate in the July 14 election, Dr Kayode Fayemi.
Other leaders at the event included the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, and former Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, among others.
Also at the event were former governorship contestants, Senator Femi Ojudu, and former members of the House of Representatives, Bamidele Faparusi and Bimbo Daramola.
The Vice President at the event attended by mammoth crowd of supporters at the Kayode Oluyemi Stadium said Ekiti State should not be left out in the committee of progressive governors in the South West states who had changed the fortunes of their people for good since APC took over the administration of the states.
Tinubu said Ekiti State must come back to the progressives fold to be part of growth movement in the states led by APC governors.
He said the party chose Fayemi because of his exposure and experience in governance, adding that the era of trial and error was over in Ekiti State to allow a competent hand to shape her destiny for good.
He urged voters to vote for APC in the July 14, 2018 election, stressing that the election presented the best opportunity for people to retrace their steps to have a government that would ensure their future for development.
Other leaders, including the National Chairman of APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, former Governors Adeniyi Adebayo and Segun Oni of Ekiti State, Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, Azeez Yari of Zamfara State, Rafiu Aregbesola (Osun), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Solomon Lalong (Plateau) and Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun, among others, spoke in the same vein, saying that Ekiti State must return to the party that takes the growth and development of the people as a cardinal principle of governance.
Former National Publicity of PDP, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, led other PDP leaders to defect to APC, saying that PDP was dead in Ekiti State.
He urged residents to reject PDP at poll, saying that the party did not present any hope for the development of the state. He assured that in few weeks, more PDP leaders, particularly the House of Assembly members,would defect to APC.
Fayemi, after receiving the party’s flag from Osinbajo and Oyegun, said the July 14 election would return Ekiti State to the path of progress and massive development.
He said it was time to put an end to poverty and misery, which the Fayose administration had brought on the state.
Fayemi said every developmental programme of the immediate past APC-led administration, which made life more meaningful for the people of the state, but which Fayose had stopped, would return to give hope of survival to the people.
He said the in-coming government under his leadership would restore free and qualitative education from primary to secondary schools as well as free health programme.
“We shall also restore the Youth in Commercial Agriculture Development (YCAD), the Youth Volunteer Scheme, pay students’ public examination fees, scholarships, health scheme for the vulnerable and community empowerment programmes, among other life-lifting programmes.
“We shall also restore the social security scheme for the elderly citizens, and our local Council Development Areas would come back.
“Together we shall use our PVCs to end the the tyrannical government of the PDP in Ekiti State.
“Ekiti State people say no to continuity of poverty, lack and fraud. We say no to continuity of incompetence, no to continuity of no salary and total disregard for human dignity,” Fayemi said.
