ABIODUN NEJO
United States of America-based group, Coalition for Change, has expressed the readiness of Ekiti people in the diaspora to support the administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi.
Coordinator of the group, Mr Samuel Ayodele, said the support was to ensure the state rose to stardom in all spheres.
In a statement from Washington DC made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti on Friday, Ayodele also urged Fayemi to carry Ekiti people in the diaspora along to bring them closer to government and prevent alienation of the elites based abroad.
This, he said, was part of ways through which his the new administration could run all-inclusive government.
He advised Fayemi to always confer with Ekiti State people abroad and seek their inputs in decision-making process for the state to have a broad-based platform to tackle its challenges.
Ayodele said time has come for Fayemi to explore the opportunities available to the state all over the world in solving some of the problems confronting the people.
The coordinator, who praised the governor for his commitment to the development of the state, stated that Ekiti in diaspora backed Fayemi’s interest in reviewing all the financial dealings undertaken by past
administration, advising that such should be carried out with open mind and in manner devoid of vindictiveness.
He said: “We quite appreciated the giant strides put up by Dr Fayemi in ensuring that the developmental indexes of our dear state change for better. We studied the projects executed by his government between 2010 and 2014 and we never doubted his competence and administrative astuteness to be able to deliver this time.
“In 2010 when his Excellency, Dr. Fayemi came as a neophyte in government, he delivered democratic dividends to Ekiti people making our dear state to rise meteorically on the developmental ranking and
created a new impression that the state has the capacity to lead even with lean resources.
“Even in the four years of Mr. Ayodele Fayose’s government, Dr Fayemi was being fondly remembered via his programmes like the Youth in
Commercial Agriculture that employed over 1,500 commercial farmers, the N5,000 social security scheme to elderly among other landmark schemes that impacted positively on the people’s lives.
“But making Ekiti great depends largely on how the human resources available to it can be harnessed to bring prosperity. It is on this note that we are appealing that our people in USA, Europe, Asia and other parts of the globe should be carried along in the running of government,” he said.
