Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi (Left); addressing a group of crowd that gathered to welcome him to Ilawe-Ekiti, during the May Edition of the Monthly environmental Sanitation. The May edition of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in Ekiti South West Local Government of the State was on Saturday turned into a political campaign for the incumbent Governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Kayode Fayemi. Governor Fayemi who was in Ilawe, Igbaraodo and Ogotun to monitor the monthly exercise and inspecting some areas affected by gully erosion, was received by hundreds of residents in the areas with brooms…
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As the countdown to the 2014 gubernatorial election in Ekiti commences, it is becoming apparent that the incumbent governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress,(APC)Dr Kayode Fayemi is favoured by the critical success factors in the election. The comparative turnout at the campaign rallies of the three leading contenders in the race, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele; former governor, Ayo Fayose and Governor Fayemi and the expression of support by the critical stakeholders in the electoral politics of the state indicate that in spite of the hullabaloo of the contest, suggest that Fayemi is set for an easy ride back to…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi (Right), addressing a cross section of Pensioners shortly after an interactive session with them, at their secretariat, in Ado-Ekiti. Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has pledged to clear the nine months pension totalling N181 million owed some retired Primary School teachers between January and September 2002. The nine months backlog of the pension which originally covers 13 months is to be cleared in four instalments after the Fayemi-led government had a few months ago effected payment of the first four months. Governor Fayemi who gave this assurance during a meeting with Pensioners in Ado-…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi (Right); exchanging pleasantries with a cross section of Traditional rulers, during a meeting, at the instance of the State Council of Obas, ahead of the June 21 election, in Ado-Ekiti. Apparently worried by the spate of pre-election violence in Ekiti State, Traditional Rulers in the State are considering meeting President Goodluck Jonathan in order to prevail on the political actors in the forthcoming guber elections in the State. The Council of Traditional Rulers also agreed to invite both the INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Halilu Pai on the yet-to-be collected Voters Cards and the…
Ekiti State Deputy Governor Prof Modupe Adelabu, receiving a protest letter from the Speaker, Ekiti State Children’s Parliament, Ilesanmi Oluwaseun after the pupils protested the abduction of their colleagues from the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. With her on the right is the wife of Governor Kayode Fayemi, Bisi, the Commissioner for Women Affairs & Gender Empowerment, Mrs. Fola Richie-Adewusi (immediate left) and the Caretaker Committee Chairman, Ado-Ekiti, Mr. Tope Olanipekun. It was protest galore yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, as school children and members of the local chapter of the National Association of Proprietors of Private…
It has come to the notice of the Ekiti State Government through a National Newspaper publication, that His Excellency, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the Governor of Ekiti State sent a text message to His Royal Majesty, Oba Idowu Adamo Babalola, the Onitaji of Itaji and Chairman of the Council of Traditional Rulers in Ekiti State, not to receive President Goodluck Jonathan, during his intended visit to Ekiti State. Reacting to this allegation, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Aderemi Ajayi, said Governor Fayemi did not send any message or give any directive to the Oba since the…
A non-government forum of Ekiti Stakeholders, e-eleven has approached the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti to seek the disqualification of the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Ayo Fayose, from contesting the June 21 governorship poll. The e-eleven, in the brief filed on its behalf by its chairman, Mr Femi Ajiniran, is asking the High Court to determine among other things, whether Mr Peter Ayodele Fayose, as the nominated PDP candidate, has committed the offence of perjury in the filling and submission of affidavit in support of INEC Form CF. 001 as required by the provisions…
Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, Most Rev Felix Femi Ajakaye yesterday had messages from the pulpit for both the Federal Government and politicians jostling to govern Ekiti State after the June 21 governorship election. He advised the federal authority to drop the idea of deploying military personnel for governorship election purposes in Ekiti and Osun States in June and August. Rather, he counseled the federal government not to engage soldiers in civil duties but to mobilize them to restore peace in the crisis-ridden Northeast, where hundreds of school girls are still being held captive by Boko Haram insurgents. The fiery…
Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi (right), educating traders at Oja Egbe Odo, Ijesa-Isu, on the voting process ahead of the state’s June 21 governorship election, when she led the All Progressives Congress women on campaign to Ikole Local Government for the reelection of Governor Kayode Fayemi. Ahead of the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State, Wife of the Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has advised the electorate against allowing politicians to brainwash them into selling their voters cards or disclosing their Voter Identification Number (VIN). She gave the advice when she led the women wing of the…
From left: Governor Kayode Fayemi, his deputy and celebrator Prof Modupe Adelabu, governor’s wife, Bisi and Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Adetunji Omirin at the 64th birthday anniversary of the deputy governor at the Deputy Governor’s Lodge. Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof Modupe Adelabu has listed the release of the 237 Chibok Government Secondary School girls and the peaceful conduct of the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State as her birthday wishes. She spoke shortly after a dawn thanksgiving service organized at the Chapel at the Deputy Governor’s Lodge on Friday as part of activities to mark…