For the umpteenth time, APC chieftain, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has warned that the people of Ekiti State should be wary of some recent promises being made by the state governor, Ayodele Fayose under the guise of providing jobs for the youths of the state.
Prince Adeyeye, in a statement by Niyi Ojo, the Director of Media of his campaign group, PAAM, in Ado Ekiti, the state capital on Wednesday, said that the state governor has been deceiving the people of the state since 2002, when he emerged onto the political landscape of the state and has been doing same ever since.
He claimed that the recent offer by Governor Fayose to create 2000 jobs for the youths of the state, is a scam that will end in nought and that it will only hurt their feelings and aggravate their present position instead if improving their lots.
The former Minister of State for Works, tasked the state governor to instead of deceiving the people by asking them to submit fresh applications and register anew for job openings, employ from the pool of ten thousand youths, who he deceived into obtaining forms for the sum of one thousand Naira each, few weeks after he was sworn into office, about four years ago.
“It is obvious that he is only deceiving the people of the state. It is so unbecoming of a state governor to deceive the youths of his state, who have supported him so much in the past.
“We are talking of indigent youths from poor homes, who laboured to pay for forms and registered for this nonexistent jobs, three and a half years ago.
“Now,he wants to repeat the scam again, just few months to the end of his term and one month before the governorship election, through which he wants to continue to rule the state by proxy.
“The people of state should now wisen up to his antics and refuse to be continued to be deceived by the Pharaoh in Ekiti State. It is a good thing that the Teachers and workers have seen through his antics and have decided to ditch him and his team for the opposition, the youths of the state, should follow their lead and refuse to be further taken in, by his lies.”
The statement further asserted that the state governor has hardly added value to the lives of the people of the state since he assumed office about four years ago.
“Instead, it has been one scam after the other. The other time, he bribed the people, especially the teachers with cups of rice and premature fowls, which turned our teachers into public ridicule around the country.
“He forced teachers to queue up in the sun to collect these insulting gifts and made an home-made movies out of them. Thereby deriding them and turning them into pubic scorn.
“He is doing the same thing with our youths now. The are queueing up in the sun and rain to collect forms for nonexistent jobs from somebody who cannot pay salaries for the past eight months.
“Where will he get the funds to pay their salaries, when he can’t pay those in the service at the moment?. He is just using this as a political gimmick, that will not benefit anyone at the end of the day.
“Anybody that watched the Television on Monday, would have seen the wife of a state governor, distributing tangible life-changing gifts to the women and youths of her state. Items like sewing machines, motorcycles, grinding machine and other materials. What have Governor Fayose and wife ever done for the youths and women of the state, except spiritual pronouncements and fake promises that have not benefitted anybody, except themselves?” the statement queried.