The “stomach infrastructure” mantra of the Governor Ayodele Fayose’s administration has again sparked a verbal exchange between the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
As the two major political parties bicker, the distribution of rice, chickens and vegetable oil continues on Monday in some locations in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital where interested residents turned out in droves to receive “Christmas largesse.”
The items, our correspondent, took place in the Governor’s Office, Government House, open field near a popular eatery along Okesa and the state poultry project site along Agric Olope, all in Ado-Ekiti.
Party leaders and members, civil servants, teachers and commercial motorcycle riders were seen trooping to the designated collection points to receive the items.
However, the APC described Fayose’s stomach infrastructure slogan as “a deceit to treat the electorates like beggars and a deliberate action intended to encourage poverty so that Ekiti people can be subservient to the governor.”
The APC in a statement by the State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said, “Fayose has turned Ekiti people to beggars by giving them handouts in form of kwashiorkor-infested chickens not bigger in size than ailing pigeons.”
He said Ekiti people have now seen “the deceit of a man who said he is a friend of the common man with his callous attitude to the people he claimed to love during the period the people are supposed to be happy.
“Governor Fayose gave two “congos” of rice and miserable palm oil not up to 1 litre, all totaling N700 to each worker that the governor had earlier deducted N2,000 from their salaries for Christmas gift.”
The PDP fired back, saying while the opposition in Ekiti is criticizing Fayose for distributing Christmas largesse to the masses, the APC leaders elsewhere are also doing same.
The party accused the opposition of copying Fayose’s stomach infrastructure policy.
The ruling party said despite the APC criticisms, “Fayose will continue to run a welfarist government and will continue to identify with the masses by putting food on their tables.”
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