APC, PDP disagree over Fayose’sstomach infrastructure programme

Ado-Ekiti —The All Progressives Congress,
APC and the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, in Ekiti State have disagreed over
the implementation of the concept of
stomach infrastructure by Governor Ayo
Fayose.
According to the state Publicity Secretary
of APC, Taiwo Olatubosun, yesterday, the
governor has turned Ekiti people to
beggars by doling out to them chicken,
rice and money, while the PDP
condemned the APC for blindly copying
the implementation of the programme
which they earlier condemned.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Peter Ayodele
Fayose distributing chicken, rice and
money to the widow and aged in Ado Ekiti
for the Christmas under the stomach
infrastructure programme of his
administration
According to a statement by PDP state
secretary, Dr. Tope Aluko in Ado Ekiti,
yesterday, the APC National Leader,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has adopted the
stomach infrastructure principle despite
the vehement criticism by members of the
APC.
Aluko who described members of APC as
deceitful people who will not see anything
tangible in any programme or policy not
initiated by them.
But APC image maker said Fayose was
implementing social infrastructure
programme to deceive the people of the
state that he loves them.
However, the PDP said the APC
implemented the programme after widely
condemning it publicly.
“It is hypocrisy at its peak to do what you
abuse someone else of doing,”
Aluko said in a statement issued
yesterday, that the Fayose-led
government would never shy away from
the people’s welfare.
He said Governor Fayose’s concept of
stomach infrastructure had been further
justified by its adoption by the APC
National Leader and former governor of
Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, who
personally distributed 2,000 bags of rice,
vegetable oil, sugar and a little cash gift
to people from various parts of Lagos
State on Sunday.
Ekiti speaker alleges
threat by Fayose
Meantime, the Speaker of Ekiti State
House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin,
has raised an alarm over alleged plan by
Governor Fayose to set thugs after the 19
APC lawmakers all over the state for
humiliation.
The speaker also alleged plans by the
governor to hire people to send threat
message to him in the name of the
lawmakers to enable him rope in the
members of Ekiti House of Assembly for
arrest.
Omirin said in statement by his Special
Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, that
intelligence report suggested that
government-backed hoodlums have been
sent to the streets to look out for
lawmakers for attacks.
“Part of the game-plan is to smash the
Toyota Camry cars officially allocated to
the members, which they are offsetting
through deductions in their salaries. In
cases where practicable, the cars are to
be forcefully snatched from the
lawmakers and then create a robbery
scenario,” the speaker said.
Omirin said the governor was trying to re-
enact a recent scenario where a member
of PDP who the governor robbed of
primary victory, Cyril Fasuyi, was framed
up for sending threat message to the
governor to create condition for his arrest.
Police on Assembly crisis
In another development, the Ekiti State
Police Command has allayed fears of the
All Progressive Congress, APC, lawmakers
in the state House of Assembly, saying it
will not dabble into the crisis rocking the
House
The embattled speaker, Hon. Adewale
Omirin on behalf of other APC lawmakers
has raised an alarm that Governor Ayo
Fayose has instructed the Police to arrest
them, following the holding of a separate
parliamentary session in an undisclosed
location last week.