A former military governor of the old Western State, Major General Adeyinka Adebayo (retd.), has commended Ekiti State Governor, Mr.   Ayodele Fayose, over the giant stride taken by him within the short time he assumed office.

However, the All Progressives Congress has accused Fayose of laying claim to some of the achievements of the immediate past governor of the state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

According to a statement by Fayose’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, Adebayo, while addressing the governor during a visit to him by Fayose on Wednesday, said, “From what I have been hearing from people, you have performed, you have done one or two things that are visible in the state within this short time that you have become the governor. It takes people like me who have been in the saddle before to identify good works.

“I charge you not to be discriminatory against anybody. Human beings are difficult to please. Don’t fight anybody, seek advice, you take the one that is useful, don’t throw away the rest, put them at the back of your mind and try to accommodate everybody.”

However, the APC in Ekiti State accused Fayose of claiming the projects executed by his predecessor as his own to mark his first 100 days in office.

The opposition party described the first 100 days of Fayose as “a celebration of fortune reversal” for the state, saying all the gains achieved during the tenures of former governors Segun Oni and Fayemi had been eroded by Fayose’s government of “deceit founded on impunity and violence.”

In a statement by the APC state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, the party said while both Oni and Fayemi raised the bar in modern governance founded on the rule of law and due process, Fayose had no respect for the rule of law and due process.

Accusing Fayose of falsehood in claiming Fayemi’s administration’s projects as his projects within his first 100 days, Olatubosun added that 19 of the presidential campaign buses allocated to Ekiti State were donated to the police few days ago for security duties as part of Fayose’s achievements.

He said, “The asphalt overlay at Fayose market, that Fayose inaugurated is an MDG project already paid for by the Fayemi administration.

“The asphalt plant he “commissioned” was bought and paid for by the Fayemi administration. Fayose only received the equipment when they were shipped into Nigeria.

“The Matthew Street Road is the joke of the century as Fayose only fixed the culvert and graded some portions of the road which he now inaugurated as a project. This is nothing short of taking Ekiti people for a ride. It is chicanery of the highest form.

“Now that it has been established that Fayose did nothing in his first 100 days in office, we wish to say that so far, Fayose has set back the hands of the clock of progress in Ekiti State through cloudy management of public funds and violence on the good people of Ekiti State, including taking from the poor to expand the coast of his mindless acquisition of wealth.

“Credible evidence shows that the governor is acquiring landed properties in choice areas of the state. A plot of land opposite the Fayose Market has just been acquired by the governor. How can Fayose take another man’s projects as his projects?

“What is he doing with Ekiti money running into billions? Why is he holding such large sums of money and yet he can’t pay salary? Are these all Fayose promised during his campaign?”

The APC spokesman said while Fayose was deceiving Ekiti people with fake projects within his first 100 days, Fayemi had concrete projects he executed to the applause of Ekiti people during his 100 days in office.