The exchange of obnoxious words between the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) continued at a state level on Saturday when APC’s Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation lashed out at Vice President Namadi Sambo, saying he committed fallacies in the statements he made about the Fayemi-led administration in Ekiti State at a PDP rally held in the state.
According to the spokesperson of the campaign organisation, Dimeji Daniels, in a statement issued on Saturday, Sambo had said at the rally that Ekiti has problems of non-payment of salary, transportation and teachers.
Daniels, however countered that no such problems exist in Ekiti, pointing out that no workers salary has been delayed, not to talk of non-payment.
“Ekiti workers’ salaries have always been paid as at when due since the advent of the JKF administration,” Daniels said.
“There is no problem of transportation in Ekiti State. The JKF administration has distributed cars and buses to commercial vehicle operators which have eased transportation tremendously. This is apart from the fact that about 958 kilometres of state, federal and local government roads have been constructed. It is also a fact that the Federal Government, in spite of several pleas, is yet to reimburse the State Government for the federal roads it constructed or rehabilitated.”
He asserted that Ekiti teachers are some of the best catered for in the country with regular training, improved environment for learning, rural allowance, core subject allowance and the recently approved teachers’ pecuniary allowance.
“Obviously, Vice President Sambo was not properly briefed,” Daniels said. “The same lies that their rejected candidate has been bandying about are the same that were transferred to Alhaji Sambo. Ekiti is known for integrity and honesty and not lying as if it is going out of fashion.”
Daniels also pointed to Sambo’s reference to Fayose as “new improved Fayose”, saying the reference confirmed that Fayose was actually a bad product.
“Ekiti people reject any bad product that may have been packaged in any form by marketers who are themselves worse,” he retorted.
Daniels lambasted PDP, saying their crowd of supporters are disconnected and fake.
“The disconnected crowd and the theatrical show of questionable voters’ cards is as fake as their candidate. Nothing is as laughable as the imaginary defection of unseen APC councillorship aspirants and the re-enactment of the defection of an unseen former senator which took place a long time ago,” he said.
“That the crowd was detached was underscored by the prompting of the Master of Ceremony that they should dance and jump so that the president would know that they love Fayose! What a deceitful outing!”
He said it is glaring that the PDP and its candidate have no plans for Ekiti State, and that was why they did not have any agenda for the rally they held in the state.
“There was no substance in all the speeches made by the PDP leaders, including that of its candidate,” Daniels added.
He berated PDP’s rally in the state, describing it as a show of shame.
“With the show of shame at the Oluyemi Kayode stadium this evening, Nigerians should not be surprised that the country has been run aground. The total lack of organisation and planning for an ordinary rally manifested to the effect that no provision was made for rendering the National Anthem which was sang as an afterthought with wrong recitation of the stanzas,” he said.
He said that Ekiti people have seen the unseriousness that PDP represents and have made up their minds never to allow the affliction that is Fayose to happen twice.
“With the crowd that was imported from neighbouring states and the relocation of the seat of presidency to Ado-Ekiti, the crowd at the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Okemesi, a town in Ekiti West Local Government far surpassed the rented PDP crowd at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium,” Daniels concluded.
