Nobel Laureate Rain Encomium On Fayemi

Dr Kayode Fayemi, has placed the State on an honourable footing by the various programmes and legacy projects he has put in place, according to Laureate, Prof. Woke Soyinka, adding, however, the decision for Fayemi’s path is the choice of the successor.
The Nobel laureate who commissioned the new Government House christened ‘Ayoba Villa’ in Ado Ekiti, said the new Governor’s lodge is now open to the next governor of the State to “either honour or desecrate”.

From left: Wife of Ogun State Governor, Mrs. Olufunso Amosun; her husband, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun; Ekiti State Governor, Governor Kayode Fayemi; his wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi; deputy Governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu; Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; and Oyo State Governor, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi, during the Unveiling of the Governor’s Lodge, Ayoba Villa, as park of activities marking the 4th anniversary of the Fayemi Administration, in Ado-Ekiti… on Sunday

Soyinka who noted that Ekiti State has known very honourable people such as the late Governor of the old Western State, Adekunle Fajuyi, stated that he had been watching Fayemi and he was happy that the outgoing governor did him proud.

In his remarks at the occassion, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, said posterity would be a better judge that Fayemi ruled Ekiti State in dignified ways to the extent that he left indelible marks in the State.

At the event were the governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, his wife, Olufunso; Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi and his wife Florence, the wife of the Governor of Osun, Mrs Serifat Aregbesola, wife of the Governor of Kwara State, Mrs Omolewa Ahmed, the former Governor of Ekiti State, Asíwájú Segun Oni, the Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, APC national chairman, Chief John Oyegun, former Governor of Abia State, Chief Ogbonaya Onu, and wife of the Governor of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi Fayemi and the Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Prof. Modupe Adelabu. 

Meantime, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State has said there were more political killings and violence in the state during the present regime led by Dr Kayode Fayemi than other existing governments in the state. 

The PDP was apparently reacting to an insinuation by a member of socio-political organisation E-11 in an interview recently in Channels Television that the state had witnessed more violence between the period of 2003-2006 during the first term of office Mr Ayo Fayose in the state. 

The party, which spoke in Ado-Ekiti through the State Publicity Secretary, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, yesterday, said there was more records of political killings during Fayemi’s tenure than Fayose’s period. 

“We want the APC and its apologists to fault   these facts that in the last four years of the Fayemi administration, no fewer than 10 persons have been killed by his agents across the state. 

The party went memory lane to list names of some of those that had fell victims of the political killings in the state.