Ekiti 2022: What House Reps member tell Fayemi on Guber primary

A House of Representatives member representing Ekiti South constituency two in the National Assembly, Femi Bamisile, has advised the state governor, Kayode Fayemi and the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress ( APC) not to impose but allow for the system through a credible and acceptable exercise to produce the next governor of the state.

Bamisile, who is the chairman, House Committee on Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) said the party should learn from the Zamfara experience where the APC lost out across the board due to shoddy and undemocratic means used in presenting candidates, adding that the governor should allow the most popular and acceptable candidate to emerge in the interest of the party and the people citizens.

The lawmaker who represents Emure, Gbonyin and Ekiti East federal constituency said he would be contesting for the 2022 governorship poll in a bid to bring his wealth of experience in the political settings, revealed that he would leverage on his contacts to draw investors and ensure the industrialization of the state, which he said is the only way to enhance the economic development of the state.

The APC lawmaker who said he would be contesting based on his plans, programmes and desires to transform the state-supported agitations for power shift to the Ekiti South Senatorial District, has not produced the governor since 1999, describing the demand by politicians of that extraction as “just, equitable and fair.”

The former speaker of the state House of Assembly, while speaking with journalists at the weekend in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital said, ” I have informed the governor to allow the system to produce the next governor by allowing level playing field for the best to emerge, that is the only way to help the party.

“Though there are tendencies in Ekiti APC, nobody could deny that, but we are not divided, it is just agitations and it happens every penultimate year to an election.

“I have made myself clear that the processes for the ward, local government and state congresses must be democratic. The idea of someone staying somewhere and concoct the list by proxy won’t work. Democracy should be allowed. We shouldn’t allow anything that can cause some people to be operating factions that can cause unnecessary litigation.

“We have to avert a repeat of what happened in Zamfara in 2019 where APC lost all positions it had won due to perceived illegalities and factional crisis,” he warned.

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Describing agitations for zoning as apt and just, Bamisile said, ” I am not basing my contest on zoning, but mainly on my plans for the people of Ekiti, this was despite the fact that I am from the South.

“But what is fair is fair. In the federal, people are agitating that power should shift to the South because of gentleman’s agreement in APC. Why can’t this be replicated in Ekiti? I am part of those politicians backing power shift, which was basically for equity and fair- play.”

Bamisile assured that the crisis elicited by the suspension of some members of the Pro-Tinubu group called South West Agenda for 2023(SWAGA), will soon be resolved amicably by party leaders.

Giving accounts of his stewardship, Bamisile said he and others were instrumental to the allocation of N1.5 billion to Ekiti to rehabilitate the 12 federal roads in the state in the 2020 budget.

“Since 1999, Ekiti used to get the highest budgetary allocation of N150 million for road rehabilitation, but it jumped to N1.5 billion in 2020 because we lobbied to get it done. All the 12 federal roads in Ekiti are getting attention today and works are ongoing on them,” Bamisile said.

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On his oversight functions as the chairman committee on FERMA in view of roads in the country and most importantly the state, the vocal lawmaker disclosed that “When the Efon-Aramoko bridge got collapsed at Erio Ekiti, I used my network with FERMA to ensure speedy reconstruction and a sum of N98 million was spent, likewise Ureje bridge along Ado-Ijan-Ikare road.

“Out of the N1.5b facilitated for road rehabilitation, we have ensured rehabilitation of Omuo -Alu in Kogi State, Omuo Oke -Ayedun -Ifaki road, which was awarded for N580 million, while Ikere-Akure road, has been awarded to Dantata Construction Company for N25b and I believe paucity of funds has been slowing down work on that road.

“We are very much concerned about aggressive road construction in Ekiti because kidnapping is done majorly on bad portions of roads and I believe that rehabilitation will help to checkmate that.”

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