Legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Chief Afe
Babalola, has congratulated Mr Ayo Fayose on his election as the next governor
of Ekiti State. In a letter to the Ekiti governor-elect, dated June 24, 2014,
Chief Babalola said he wrote to “formally congratulate you most heartily and
warmly at your resounding victory at the Saturday, June 21, 2014, gubernatorial
election, as pronounced by the Independent National Election Commission
(INEC).”
According to him, “your
electoral victory could be attributed largely to large number of youths most of
whom were unemployed and unemployable who are hoping for a better tomorrow, as
well as students who are angling for affordable education, particularly at the
tertiary level of education.”
He noted that “in a
land-locked state like Ekiti which is afflicted with a high dosage of
unemployment, it is for you to justify the trust and confidence the electorate
had willingly reposed in you by delivering on the promises you have made.”
On how these could be achieved,
Chief Babalola said Ekiti, being a land-locked state “with very poor means of
transportation and without any other means of revenue apart from the monthly
allocation from the centre, which is about the least among the 36 states of the
federation, Ekiti cannot afford to be in opposition to the government at the
centre.”
He advised that “it is
for this reason that I urge you to use your God-ordained and God-given position
as the next governor of Ekiti State to get close to the centre and secure
enough of Federal Government presence in Ekiti this time around.”
In a separate letter,
Chief Babalola also commended Governor Kayode Fayemi for his “highly
commendable act of statesmanship and sportsmanship of congratulating the winner
of the Saturday, June 21, 2014 gubernatorial election, Fayose, shortly after he
was declared the winner by the Independent National Election Commission
(INEC).”
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