Ekiti election: Ex-Attorney General slams Fashola

Former Attorney General of Ekiti State, Owoseni Ajayi, has urged Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State to come to terms with the result of the Ekiti State governorship election which was won by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ayodele Fayose.
Fashola had twice in his reaction to the Ekiti election, disparaged the people of the state for refusing to renew the mandate of Governor Kayode Fayemi, but instead voted for Fayose as his replacement.
Reacting on behalf of the governor-elect, Ajayi said the comments credited to Fashola were unbecoming of a state governor as his words were considered as direct insults on the sensibility of the people.
In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday, Ajayi said the comments of Fashola are mere vilification of “the election and the good people of Ekiti State who voted for Fayose.
“He has become an emergency psychologist doing dubious, bogus and bias psychological analysis of Ekiti electoral behavioral pattern.
“In his previous interviews, Governor Fashola desperately and pathetically attempted to detract from the credibility of Fayose’s victory by insinuating that it was a sheer impossibility for the governor-elect to win the Ekiti State gubernatorial election with such landslide; defeating the incumbent Governor, his deputy, three senators and all their House of Assembly members in their various local governments.
“However, in his latest piece titled “Ekiti Poll: My Take Away” published on the back pages of “Nigerian Tribune” and “Thisday Newspapesr” of Monday, the 30th day of June, 2014, the governor of Lagos State, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN seemed to be approbating after his earlier reprobation.
“Even though the Governor finally admitted defeat in that piece, he did not do so without throwing tantrums akin to an ill-mannered disgruntled child.
“Whilst we may excuse Governor Fashola’s obvious inability to comprehend or understand the concept of popular mandate and its workings being himself a product of a single man’s selection, we are nonetheless appalled by his newly acquired ability [or inability] at doing the hatchet job for his party on the Ekiti election.”
The PDP stalwart said it was wrong of Governor Fashola to deliberately refuse to acknowledge that Fayose recorded good success in his first term in office, which he should be credited for, and which the people of the state have acknowledged.
“Why would Governor Fashola not see that the people of Ekiti chose to vote overwhelmingly for a Governor who paid their salaries on the 22nd day of every month and never in arrears of salaries?
“Why will Governor Fashola fail to realize that the good people of Ekiti State chose to vote for that man who brought dualization of roads to Ado, the Ekiti State Capital; who built the Governor’s office currently in use by the incumbent, who cleared all outstanding indebtedness of his predecessor-in-office; retrieving Ekiti House and Ojuolobun title documents from the Banks they were pledged to without ever borrowing a kobo from any bank but rather left the sum of N10.4 billion in Ekiti State Government coffers even when his tenure was unexpectedly truncated,” he said.