Ekiti State’s former Governor Kayode Fayemi has made an uncharacteristic criticism of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government.
Tinubu and Fayemi were in the trenches as members of the NADECO struggle against the Military annulment of June 12, 1993 election and Fayemi played a key role floating Radio Kudirat and Radio NADECO, renegade broadcast stations running the propaganda arm of that internationalized campaign.
Also, Tinubu played a key role in Fayemi’s judicial victory that saw him clinching the Governorship of Ekiti State in 2018.
Fayemi, in a video gone viral, said Nigerians are hungry under Tinubu’s administration, adding that Nigerians might not give the President a second chance in 2027.
Speaking in Yoruba, Fayemi said: “Except we are deceiving ourselves, Nigerians are not happy with the Federal Government due to hunger and lack of money.”
On the high table with Fayemi in the video could be seen Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adeoye Aribasoye, and another state legislator, Hon. Tope Longe.
Fayemi was conspicuously absent at Tinubu and Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s endorsement rally held in Ado Ekiti on Monday by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), where former Governor Ayodele Fayose adopted both aspirants.
In the video, Fayemi said: “If we look at the roads, especially federal roads, whoever that is coming from Efon Alaaye and passes through Erio Ekiti will know what his eyes will see.
“Whoever that is coming from Omuo Ekiti and passes through Ilasa Ekiti to Ayedun Ekiti will know what his eyes will see.
“When we did this road that BAO (Governor Biodun Oyebanji) just completed, I think like N18 billion to N20 billion was spent on that road.
“Federal Government said they didn’t send us to do the road, so no refund was made. If they had refunded the money, won’t the Governor have used the money to do the phase 2 of the road we did from Ado Ekiti to Iyin Ekiti, and construct the road to Aramoko-Ekiti?”
