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Ekiti PDP, APC Trade Barbs Over Distribution Of ‘kwashiorkor-infested Chickens’ by jnistrick(m): 6:59pm On Dec 23, 2014 |
More than six months after the election that produced Governor Ayo Fayose, the bickering between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has continued unabated. Both parties on Monday exchanged brickbats over the controversial stomach infrastructure programme of Fayose, with the APC demanding that the governor, who had started distributing rice and chickens to thousands of Ekiti people to celebrate the Christmas and New Year festivities, should stop treating Ekiti people like beggars, accusing the governor of promoting beggary among the populace. APC, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Hon. Taiwo Olatunbosun, berated Fayose for not fulfilling his electoral promises to Ekiti people, saying his stomach infrastructure slogan was a ploy to treat the electorate like beggars. The party said the governor has turned Ekiti people to beggars by giving them handouts in the form of “kwashiorkor-infested chickens not bigger in size than ailing pigeons”, adding that Ekiti people “have now seen the deceit of a man who says he is a friend of the common man with his callous attitude to the people he claims to love during the period the people are supposed to be happy”. The APC spokesman accused the governor of reducing the status of Ekiti citizens by offering them peanuts stating: “Governor Fayose gave two ‘congos’ of rice and miserable palm oil not up to one litre all totalling N700 to each worker from whom the governor had earlier deducted N2,000 from his/her salary in lieu of the Christmas gift. “This is in contrast to former Governor Kayode Fayemi, who empowered the people through agriculture, cooperatives and employment and apprenticeship schemes involving over 2,000 youths, which helped the people to earn a living and made them happy for four years as against Fayose’s tokenism as Christmas gifts.” Olatunbosun said instead of Fayose building on these laudable schemes, he has cancelled all the programmes, rendering the youths jobless, while also cancelling many promotions in the civil service as well dismissing many workers for the offences they did not commit. “Fayemi last year paid civil servants 30 per cent of their salary as Christmas bonus. He also paid their leave bonus, while their December salary was paid on December 18. In contrast, Fayose has refused to pay civil servants their September salary even though he has collected the September allocation from the Federation Account. “Civil servants are yet to be paid as at December 22. Last year, apart from the 30 per cent and leave bonuses, all offices in the MDAS were given gifts but all these have gone under Fayose, as workers are now praying for their September salaries let alone December salaries or Christmas or leave bonus,” he charged. The APC spokesman said Fayose has worsened the condition of Ekiti workers by making it plain that he has no money to pay December salaries, alleging that the state government had received December allocation (which is always shared by the Federation Account Allocation Committee and paid in January) and describing the governor’s action as “callous and insensitive”. “Governor Fayose should ask Ekiti citizens how Fayemi added value to their lives for four years. He didn’t wait till Christmas period to pay N10,000 to over 20,000 youths in volunteer services for four years. “He didn't wait till Christmas before he paid N5,000 to 20,000 elderly people in his social security scheme for four years, in addition to feeding them with both cooked and raw food all year round,” APC said. But in a swift riposte signed by the PDP State Secretary, Dr. Tope Aluko, the ruling party took on the APC for copying Fayose’s concept of stomach infrastructure, saying, “It is hypocrisy at its peak to do what you abuse someone else of doing.” Aluko stated that the Fayose-led government would never shy away from the people’s welfare, saying the governor’s concept of stomach infrastructure has been further justified by its adoption by the APC national leader and former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, who personally distributed 2,000 bags of rice, vegetable oil, sugar and a little cash gift to people from various parts of Lagos on Sunday. The PDP Secretary said: “They abuse us for providing immediate succour for our people. They describe stomach infrastructure as an insult to Ekiti people. They said it does not add value to the people, it diminishes their self- esteem, it diminishes their sense of self-worth and it denigrates what politics ought to be about. “However, their party leader in Lagos on Sunday, adopted the same concept of stomach infrastructure by personally sharing food items to people. “After condemning the concept, isn't it rather too late that the APC people are just realising that poverty should be addressed by providing immediate succour because poverty is poverty; it knows no religion and it has no tribal mark, it affects everyone of us,” he said. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/stomach-infrastructure-ekiti-pdp-apc-trade-barbs-over-distribution-of-kwashiorkor-infested-chickens-/197489/ |
Re: Ekiti PDP, APC Trade Barbs Over Distribution Of ‘kwashiorkor-infested Chickens’ by temitemi1(m): 7:03pm On Dec 23, 2014 |
Apc don start their madness again!! Dem no go see d HIV chickens wey tinubu shared for lagos 2 days ago... GEJ till 2019!!! 1 Like |
Re: Ekiti PDP, APC Trade Barbs Over Distribution Of ‘kwashiorkor-infested Chickens’ by omenka(m): 7:07pm On Dec 23, 2014 |
temitemi1:Lmao! Na you run dia blood tests abi? Agbaya. |
Re: Ekiti PDP, APC Trade Barbs Over Distribution Of ‘kwashiorkor-infested Chickens’ by anonimi: 7:17pm On Dec 23, 2014 |
temitemi1: The Association of Pretending Crooks, APC are masters of HYPOCRISY and media PROPAGANDA. It is up to us to educate our folks & friends as much as possible about their vile ways and debilitating agenda!!! 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Ekiti PDP, APC Trade Barbs Over Distribution Of ‘kwashiorkor-infested Chickens’ by moyinoluwabun(m): 7:22pm On Dec 23, 2014 |
Plenty Drama to watch as we approach 2015. It's good that APC Tinubu eventually saw sense in what Fayose has been doing and in like manner copied him. |
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