The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has fired back at the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the State for criticising the renaming of the Civic Centre after Governor Kayode Fayemi as the JKF Cultural Centre saying they should instead put there wrecked house in order.
In a release signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Elder Sam Oluwalana, the ruling party described “PDP as a child without a settled home who is daily envious of another child with a peaceful home and therefore wishing to destroy that settled home”.
“It is unfortunate that the PDP in Ekiti has become so fragmented to the extent that no qualified PDP person in Ekiti is considered fit enough in the state to direct its affairs except a complete stranger from Osun State who was selected by the National Executives in far away Abuja to superintend over its affairs in Ekiti. We believe that this is the cause of there constant cry over a matter there isn’t any,” Oluwalana stated.
The statement added that unlike in the case of the former PDP Governor, Ayodele Fayose, who named a market after himself, it said it was the people through their representatives who requested that the Civic Centre as a monument be named after Governor Kayode Fayemi.
During its special sitting marking its first year in office, the Ekiti State House of Assembly had passed a motion renaming the civic centre, which was nearing completion after Governor Kayode Fayemi who they believed had done a lot to develop the State.
But the PDP, in a reaction through its Caretaker Committee Secretary, Diran Odeyemi, described the action as “petty and empty.”
The APC wondered what was petty or empty in the action, describing Diran Odeyemi as a figure in the PDP from a foreign land who knows next to nothing about the political development in Ekiti, except the lies he is being fed by the renegades of the dying party called PDP in the State.
“APC affirms the decision of the lawmakers. Dr. Fayemi deserves the honour of naming a legacy project after him and even more, Oluwalana said, describing Dr. Fayemi as “a quintessential Ekiti Omoluabi who had contributed immensely to the development of every town in Ekiti State during his first tenure and as the current Governor.”
Continuing, Oluwalana added that, “there is nothing strange in honouring a person who had served the State meritoriously through the execution of many legacy projects. It is the people from the various constituencies in Ekiti State whose lives have been transformed by Governor Fayemi who requested through their representatives that a project be named in his honour and the lawmakers responded to the clarion call accordingly”.
“The present crop of lawmakers in the Ekiti State House of Assembly are men and women of integrity who had conducted the business of lawmaking with grace and candour and in accordance with the constitution and the standing rules of the House of Assembly”.
Oluwalana pointed out that, “the current lawmakers in the State is not like a house of commotion where a Governor would dress shabbily into the Hallowed Chambers holding a miniature gavel and proclaiming himself the Speaker to pass the budget, which he had presented within minutes while the so called lawmakers would look on helplessly and haplessly”.
He stated further, that, “In fact, the immediate past Assembly, that is, the 5th Assembly are comprised of people who are bunch of jokers. And who have so much desecrated the Assembly such that they prostrated for the former Governor Ayodele Fayose inside the Hallowed Chambers which is against parliamentary protocol”!
Oluwalana expressed the happiness that the 6th Ekiti Assembly has come to correct the sacrilege committed by the 5th Assembly by greatly helping to restore the lost glory of the parliamentary in the State!
In his words, Oluwalana said, “Ekiti now have a House of Assembly so properly called and not an Assembly whose mace was residing with the Governor and whose members would sit under the bridge to conduct a make-belief legislative business!”
Elder Oluwalana therefore advised the Ekiti PDP to face its own business and put its scattered house in order; rather than throwing stones from outside into a peaceful home”.
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