By Ayodele Oni, Akure
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in Ekiti State has described the one year administration of Dr Kayode Fayemi led All Progressive Congress,(APC) government as a colossal failure with no visible achievement to showcase.
The Party noted that the several billions of naira collected as allocations to the State from the Federal government by the state has been grossly mismanaged with other funds and grants squandered to please the pocket of government cronies.
The APC administration in the state, which assumed office in October, 2018, is currently marking its first year in office with funfare.
But in a statement by the Publicity Secretary of the Party, Mr Jackson Adebayo, PDP berated Governor Fayemi for dragging Ekiti State back from the development trends he met on ground when he assumed office on October 16, 2018.
The Party stressed that with all the seriousness that the immediate past government of PDP put into accelerated development of infrastructure in the State, ‘there is enough opportunity for Governor Fayemi to build upon, rather he has chosen to pull the gear of progress to reverse mode. ‘
PDP maintained that Ekiti State has found itself in this pity situation because the governor and his team are bereft of ideas of development and ethos of building a State but only conspired to snatch power to enrich themselves.
Adebayo cited the case of the new Oja-Oba international market which was almost completed by the last administration with enough money left for the completion which till today still remained as it was in 2018 October.
The PDP spokesman also pointed out that the street lights installed by the last administration and other urban beautification projects are no more being maintained by the Fayemi government, adding that roads that have only few meters to be completed have not been tourced in a whole year of Fayemi administration.
The Party equally noted that nothing has been done in any school or hospital in the State in the past one year, saying that the ongoing extension of pipe borne water project in Ado Ekiti is being handled by Federal government without any contribution from the State.
PDP said that the only project that would have been attributed to the present government is the civic center which Fayemi claimed was nearly completed in his first term, it was reawarded and yet it is still under construction with frontage painting to deceive Ekiti people again.
According to PDP, Governor Fayemi knowing fully well that he would have nothing to show for his one year in office has come with a filthy idea of erecting fence in the name of cargo airport which was condemned by his party when the last administration attempted to construct the airport.
Apart from the improved allocations to the State from the Federal government, which is estimated to be about 150 billion naira, PDP alleged that the present government has secured foreign loans running into several Millions of Dollar with nothing to show for it, among which is the latest 100 Million dollars from the Africa Development Bank.
“What Fayemi has mainly achieved in his one year in office is grand deception and departure from campaign promises among which is his promise to pay the backlog of salaries and arrears of Ekiti workers;” PDP stated.
