PDP cannot return to Power in Ekiti state- Fayemi

Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the Minister of Mines and
Steel Development, on Thursday described the
attempt being made by the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) to reclaim power in 2019 as a plot to
continue to loot the country.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
Fayemi made the statement while addressing
newsmen at his Isan-Ekiti country home shortly
after hosting APC leaders from across the state.
He urged Nigerians not to use the current fuel
scarcity to rate President Muhammadu Buhari’s
performances, saying
“What we are witnessing is just a normal curve in
the life of any administration.
We will get over it and move on, but largely
President has not disappointed Nigerians,” he
said.
The minister described the panel of enquiry
inaugurated by Gov. Ayo Fayose to probe his
administration as a kangaroo one, revealing that
it was an attempt to smear his reputation and
render him unpopular by the PDP-led government.
“Fayose’s stock in trade is lying against someone
to score political gains.
“They started with the probe of N852 million
UBEC fund and when they knew they could not go
far, they started concocting lies and said I looted
N17 billion.
“Let us wait and see who will go to jail between
Fayose and I.
” I have been out of office and I am still moving
free, but I am sure he won’t be able to walk free
on the streets after losing immunity because of
the way he ran the state aground.”
Fayemi said Nigerians would ensure that PDP
didn’t return to power because of the high level of
looting it perpetrated while in the saddle.
The Minister didn’t say categorically whether he
was still nursing governorship ambition.
He said the APC was incurably committed to
making sure that Ekiti rejoined the league of
developing states by ensuring that the party won
the 2018 governorship poll.
“What the PDP wanted to come back and do is
stealing.
“The options for Nigerians in 2019 is not to return
to the old age of criminalisation and brigandage
by voting for the PDP.
“There is nothing to convince Nigerians that they
have changed with the shenanigans that
characterised their national convention and poor
performances by their governors.
“Up to now, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and his
henchmen have not apologised
about how they ran the country aground.
” So, there is nothing to suggest that PDP
remains a credible alternative to APC in 2019”, he
said.
Fayemi discountenanced the attacks by his
political adversaries that he had not used his
ministerial position for the benefit of the state.
He said: ”what I have done is measurable and
clear. This government has begun the
construction of a federal secretariat and housing
estate in Ekiti and the rail-line was extended to
this state in the Federal Government’s proposal
due to my intervention.
“About 4,000 Ekiti indigenes are benefitting from
N-power and very soon it will go up to 12,000.
The proposal for kaolin exploration in Ekiti has
just been completed, that of the bauxite will begin
soon.
“President Buhari’s government is planning to set
up a cottage industry in Ekiti for the sake of the
solid minerals exploration and I have enlisted
small scale miners around Ijero Ekiti for them to
be able to benefit from the N5b loan set up by
the Bank of Industry.”(NAN)