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Gov Ayo Fayose
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Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele
Fayose, has said he patronizes drinking joints every Friday in order to get
close to the ‘common man’ in the state.
The governor said this in Abuja on
Thursday while defending the concept of “stomach infrastructure” introduced by
his government.
According to PUNCH report Fayose told journalists that it would be
wrong to assume that stomach infrastructure meant only sharing of food and
money to the people.
Fayose said, “I also go to beer
parlour on Fridays to stay with the common men there. Governance is not church;
it is about diverse characters and you must relate with them as such.
“Christmas is coming, why do people
go out of their ways to be shopping or doing other things if it is not just to
make people merry?
“So, I’m grooming chicken, buying
rice, yams, plantain, and the rest of them. I am sure if I give them to
families during the festive period, they will be happy. So, stomach
infrastructure is a way of life.”
The governor said that most people
who committed crime did so because they felt that life was no longer worthy of
living for them and that there was no one to tell them that there is life for
them.
He said it was because of this that
he set up a department for stomach infrastructure and also appointed a special
assistant and a personal assistant on it.
“So, my style, without apology, is
that stomach infrastructure is a way of life for me, I will relate well with my
people to alleviate poverty and hunger,” he added.
He said that the welfare of the
people in the society mattered, hence his condemnation of spending N3.3bn on
the building of Governor’s House by his predecessor, ex-Governor Kayode Fayemi.
“That is not to condemn or fight
anybody but I have another instance, the University of Ado Ekiti has most of
its courses yet to be accredited and they needed about N800m to sort out those
problems, will the governor be living in affluence when the whole state is in
darkness?,” he asked.
On the face-off between him and
members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, the governor said he was already
discussing with the speaker.
He said he was sure that the
leadership of the House was ready to work with him.
He said, “I am an experienced governor and I
know the game. Very soon, my House of Assembly will be together, working to
keep the ground running; they want to work with me and I want to work with
them.”
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