The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Legislative
Budget and Research, Opeyemi Bamidele, has cautioned the outgoing
Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to stop blaming his loss at
the June 21 governorship election on his refusal to distribute money and
bags of rice to the electorate.
According to him, “stomach infrastructure” theory advanced by the
Governor’s team can send a wrong signal about Ekiti people to the
outside world.
Bamidele, in a statement by his Media Aide, Ahmed Salami, in Ado
Ekiti on Sunday, said the theory was unfounded as it did not influence
the choice of the electorate, which voted against him.
He said prior to the election, Fayemi distributed over 200 buses
among different interest groups while his wife, Bisi, distributed buses,
sewing machines and several other equipment to market women.
Bamidele posited that some self-serving intellectuals and
politicians misled Fayemi and cost him the victory recorded by the
Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, in the
election.
He added that the poll remained the best conducted by the
Independent National Electoral Commission in recent time, although not
absolutely devoid of hitches.
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