Five days after Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Ayodele Fayose won the governorship election in Ekiti State, western Nigeria, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has described Fayose’s victory as frightening to democracy in Nigeria.
Fashola, who verbalized with newsmen after a closed door meeting with Vice Chairmen of the 57 councils in Lagos, held at the State House, Marina, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria verbalized the election is not foreclosed in view of the fact that people were induced with mazuma to vote.
The governor lamented that the Ekiti people voted for Fayose as a result of mazuma, while ignoring the achievement of incumbent Governor Kayode Fayemi in the state.
“Even if Governor Fayemi is verbalizing an exorbitant amount of English they don’t understand, would they verbally express his deputy and the Speaker of the State House of Assembly are verbalizing an inordinate amount of English additionally? It is a worrisome edification to learn. However, the governor- elect still has malefactor case to answer.
* Lagos State Governor, Fashola
“They have not told us what will transpire to that case. Is that consistent with the deportment of the people? There are issues that cropped up to ruminate on and questions to ask. No incumbent governor has lost election like this in this country to my construal. Is this the way to reward a governor that embarked on massive infrastructural development in Ekiti State,” he asked.
“So, the edifications that are suppositiously emerging from Ekiti are frightening edifications for me. Edification about whether the people of Ekiti are authentically saying that this was all about mazuma and rice. This is because that is very facile to do. Developmental work is arduous to initiate and to execute. And developmental work that brings on transmute which is what every election asks for, will withal from time to time occasion debates and policy thrust. And which legitimately must be upbraided.
“But it must be a very perilous message to simply suggest that once you give people mazuma, then this is the way it will transpire. It is frightening for me in a democracy. But it raises the question of what we have been doing for seven years. Should we just be giving mazuma and when people ask about security, we verbally express that we have giving you mazuma, go and rent your own security
* Governor-elect in Ekiti, Ayo Fayose
“When people ask for healthcare, we verbally express that you have amassed mazuma. Is that the model for development? These are edifications and I am not suggesting that we monopolise the debate about what the best policy is. But I am verbalizing that there must be another side. There must be a debate. The debate that apperceives that development comes at a cost. And that even those that are privileged to accommodate, don’t claim to have a monopoly of conceptions,” he integrated.
It could be recalled that after the election was held on 21 June, 2014 and results promulgated by INEC on 22 June, 2014, governor elect, Fayose verbally expressed that the reason he won the election was because of his familiarity with people living in the grassroots in Ekiti State.
The former governor between 2003 to 2006 additionally met with Governor Fayemi in a closed door meeting where both sides were reported to have concurred to collaborate for the progress of the Ekiti people.