Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, says he will try
his best to destroy the legacies of his predecessor,
Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

Fayose, in a statement by his Special Assistant on
Public Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, said that he would destroy Fayemi’s
negative legacies including the N86bn debt Fayemi
left behind as well as months of unpaid civil servants’
salaries.

The governor said this while reacting to Fayemi’s
interview in which the former governor said, “Fayose
is destroying my legacies.”

Fayose said his predecessor had no excuse for
leaving behind huge debts as a result of white
elephant projects, bad governance and corruption.

“One bad news that we must, however, tell Fayemi is
that we won’t only destroy his legacy of bad
governance and betrayal in Ekiti, we will also make
sure that economic devourers like him will never
taste power in the state.”

Fayose said no responsible government would
sustain a legacy of over N86bn debt that was
incurred on projects with no direct bearing on the
welfare of the people.

He said, “Does he (Fayemi) then want us to sustain
the legacy of serial betrayal of his benefactors?

“If he served Ekiti and its people well, why was it that
he was roundly defeated in all the 16 local councils in
the state in the June 21, 2014 governorship election
and his party was also defeated 16-0 in the
presidential, National Assembly and House of
Assembly elections?

“Even his own party men described his electoral
defeat as the worst in Nigeria.”

The governor said it was shameful that Fayemi, who
left two months’ salary and four-month cooperative
and unions deductions from workers salary, as well
as pensions and gratuities unpaid, could be talking
about his legacies being destroyed.

He said, “When Fayemi became governor, he chose
to close down two universities established by the
Peoples Democratic Party-led government of Segun
Oni and abandoned the Oba Adejugbe General
Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, claiming that the state could not
fund more than one university.

“The same Fayemi, who said Ekiti had no money to
fund more than one university, preferred to take a
N25bn bond to plant flowers that never germinated
up till now and also built a new governor’s lodge,
civic centre, pavilion and executed other irrelevant
projects.”

Fayose said Fayemi had become politically irrelevant
and that was why his erstwhile political godfather,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, dumped him.

“Even in the APC, his legacy of betrayal of Senator
Bola Tinubu, the man who made him governor, is
being destroyed.”

“Today, Fayemi has been ostracised by those who
assisted him to office because he has betrayed all of
them, including Tinubu. Does he then want us to
sustain the legacy of serial betrayal of his
benefactors?” he said.