I’ve Delivered 70 Per Cent Of My Campaign Promises, Says Fayemi

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 EKITI State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi Friday said he has delivered 70 per cent of his campaign promises to the people within the last two and a half years in office.

Fayemi, who scored his administration high on performance, said the era of giving unfulfilled promises had gone because the people were only interested to see what government had done with the resources of the state.

The Governor made the disclosure at the opening of the second Executive-Parliamentary parley holding at Ikogosi Warm Spring Resort, Ikogosi-Ekiti.

He said the people of the state had got tired of being informed of what was being earmarked for certain projects but were interested in seeing the effect of the judicious use of such funds in terms of tangible development.

The programme, an annual event where government's policies and strategies are evaluated, is being attended by all the members of the State House of Assembly, the state's representatives in the National Assembly and members of the State Executive Council.

Fayemi said the four-day retreat with the theme,  "Collaboration: Looking Back, Looking Forward" was aimed at rejuvenating the delivery team and reflecting on how well the administration has been able to consistently pursue the goals of banishing poverty and making life abundant to the people without derailing.

He added that the retreat would enable the two arms of government to cement their bond and know the "banana peels" in their relationship and take corrections.

The Governor recalled that many of the projects implemented last year by the administration were products of the first parley held last year in Iloko-Ijesa.

He added that the second parley would give them the opportunity to know what the administration had achieved, where the gaps are and the direction which the administration should head for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Governor said: "This parley is expected to give us the sense of where we are and where we are headed. We want to know things we have done, where the gaps are and how to strengthen the bond between the executive and the legislature, and achieve the objective we have for our people in ensuring that we make poverty history and make life abundant."

He added: "This is the time to focus on our people but the time for politics will also come when we tell them what we have done for them and allow them judge us. We believe we have delivered 70 per cent of our promises to Ekiti people within two and a half years and we are reasonably confident that we will do more than we promised them by the time we finish our term.

"Our people are only interested in eye-marking, enough of ear-marking in Ekiti. Governments come and go. What we used to hear in the past was that government had earmarked this and that for water, Ikogosi, education and so on. Not anymore! It is only what can be eye-marked that will determine how our people can judge us."



The Guardian