Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has appealed to the electorate to vote massively for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the July 14 governorship election, boasting that no amount of deployment by the All Progressives Congress (APC) will give its candidate Dr Kayode Fayemi victory at the poll.
Governor Fayose, who spoke during the inauguration of the new Governor’s Office in Ado Ekiti, said the 77-man panel raised to campaign for Fayemi would not stop the APC from being disgraced in the July 14 governorship poll.
Fayose claimed that Fayemi had never won any election in Ekiti, claiming that his emergence as a governor in the state was allegedly a creation of the judiciary through a former President of the Court of Appeal.
Rivers State governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, inaugurated the new governor’s office, supported by his counterparts from Abia, Akwa Ibom and Gombe state.
Fayose drew attention to what he described as President Muhammadu Buhari’s poor performance in office, insisting that there is yet no alternative to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the running of government at the centre.
“Let me say that with what we are seeing in Nigeria today, it is glaring that Nigerians have not found an alternative to PDP, today they are regretting voting APC.
“Since I came on October 16, 2014, I have not committed Ekiti to one naira debt. I left N10.4 billion cash in the coffers of Ekiti when I left in 2006, but today, the story has changed.
“I can say without fear of contradiction that over 70 percent of the infrastructure in Ekiti were built by me, I want someone to controvert this.”
On the anti-graft war being waged by President Buhari, Fayose said: “Our country has no problem of corruption. They said they are visiting the past; let them probe up to the military era because it has to go down the line.
“We have had enough of blame game under Buhari. Every day they shout of Jonathan, they better face the reality that they were only affected by incompetence and lack of capacity to deliver and stop blaming the past leaders.”
Fayose insisted that the APC candidate for the July 14 election and former governor had never won any election in the history of the state.