AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR PETER AYODELE FAYOSE,
THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF EKITI SATE
04/06/2017.
By Fadare Oluwaseun Emmanuel.
Your Excellency,
This is the first time I'm compelled by the situation of things in
Ekiti for almost three years of your administration to write a
letter to you. I should therefore have made this letter a private
one, but, I resolved to making it an open letter since you are a
lover of publicity sir. Sorry; I didn't salute you as expected, this
is particularly so because of my curiosity to go straight to the
purpose of this letter. I, however, hope you find time to read
through, grant my request and ease Ekiti people of the current
hardship.
Let me use this medium to applaud your efforts towards
repositioning Ekiti economically and socially on the one hand;
the road networks as well as the ongoing over-head bridge
and the ultra-modern market structures in the state capital are
unprecedented and commendable in this regard. On the other
hand, I outrightly condemn your inability to drive Ekiti state in
the direction of the everyday realities of Agricultural Practices,
Entrepreneurship and Technological Advancement thereby
expanding the economy of the state and creating jobs for the
teeming unemployed sons and daughters of Ekiti. In the same
token, I condemn your inability to pay workers in the state sir.
If there is anyone who have enjoyed the love of workers in the
world, it is you; this is evident in the manner and way Ekiti
Workers massively supported you at the wake of the election
that brought you to power in 2014. Sir, it is a great
disappointment that you have chosen to pay them back in a
different coin. May God help you to know this and do the
needful.
Mr governor, the purpose of this letter is not to evaluate your
successes and or failures over the years. In clear and concise
terms, your role in the recent Fuel Scarcity in Ekiti State is the
reason for this piece.
I recall on the 7th of January, 2017, you were spotted
quenching an inferno which broke out at Strive Energy Petrol
Station, Ijigbo roundabout in Ado Ekiti with buckets of water.
An activity which I considered impolitical of you in the name
of publicity. Thank God no life was lost and nothing happened
to you. Clearly and without doubt, that day marked the genesis
of the hardship we are witnessing in the whole of Ekiti as at
today.
Sir, I have followed events overtime and I must expressly
thank you for your strong stand geared towards securing the
lives and properties of Ekiti people. The demands of Ekiti state
government under your watch is pellucid and simple. Without
prejudice to the Premium Motor Spirit dealers in Ekiti, their
voice is succinct and their agitations are understandable too.
Your excellency, it will amount to an unforgivable offence to
assume you are not aware that the only reality in Ekiti state as
a result of this rift is hardship, hardship and hardship. Nothing
more!
Without economizing the truth, sir, it is visible to the deaf and
audible to the blind that your firm resolution, or better put, your
no-going-back decision on the subject of this letter is yielding
no positive result. For instance, on the 25th of May, 2017, I
read with utmost shock your threat to revoke the Certificate of
Occupancy of any filling station that refuses to commence the
sale of PMS in Ekiti. It is also worthy of note that during your
last "Gomina Salaye" programme, you incited Ekiti people to
take action against the properties of the Petrol Dealers, and in
response to your directive, thugs invaded the streets of Ado
Ekiti and destroyed properties of petrol marketers. Sir, you will
agree with me these tactics only worsened the situation.
Petrol dealers didn't only continue their strike, Ekiti people
have continued to indulge in illegal and insecured sale of
petrol and some few have continued to live at the expense of
others through uncontrolled price of petrol across our state.
Mr Governor, this rift is no longer about the political undertone,
the stubbornness of the petrol marketers, your kick-and-follow
approach or the exhibition of force. It is now about the
hardship, and discomfort, and suffering of the artisans, civil
servants, business owners, children, young and old people of
our state overtime. Infact, it is correct and apposite to
describe the situation as an artificial war against Ekiti people
since we are directly at the receiving end here.
Sir, your modus operandi have placed you to be a man on the
people's side. It will therefore amount to a negation of this
claim to seeing you watch Ekiti people profusely suffer
unnecessarily. I hereby put it to you that it is high time you soft
pedal and employ diplomacy and dialogue in place of the
instrumentality of force, of cohersion and of compulsion.
If you can do this, not only that the artificial war would end,
peace and tranquillIty will surface and prevail in our land and
Ekiti people will appreciate you. Of course, sir, you owe it to
yourself, and to us, and to posterity and to Almighty God to do
so.
And if you are a careful reader, sir, you will notice I'm
mentioning "God" the fourth time in this letter. It is simply
because I know you believe in His existence. And like He did
to King Solomon, may this God help you to think well and do
well.
Your Excellency, permit me to end this letter with the words of
leader Martin Luther King Jr. which goes thus: "Darkness
cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that". I hope your mind find
expressions to these strong words.
Happy Sunday!
Fadare Oluwaseun Emmanuel, writes from Iloro Ekiti, Ekiti
State, Nigeria.
+2347035899653.
Fadare _emmanuel@yahoo.com

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The person wey write this letter is hungry and unemployed but atleast he has obtained his OND in human kinetics..


Take him to a corner, give him food and employment letter let him go and sin no more.

Y posting now, when we have another govt in power. Nice composition thou.