Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its governorship candidate, Prof. Kolapo Olusola Eleka were free to challenge his victory at the Supreme Court even as he said he never considered Eleka as an enemy.
He however maintained that his government would not hesitate to approach him for advice in the running of the state for better service to the people of the state.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Friday at a programme tagged “Meet Your Governor,” Fayemi, whose 2018 electoral victory was recently affirmed by the Court of Appeal, also applauded the performance of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the just concluded state assembly election.
He dismissed the claims by the opposition that ‘federal might and money’ were used to rig them out in the polls.
Fayemi further disclosed that his government was working on establishing a ‘knowledge zone’ in Ekiti to make it a destination when it comes to knowledge and skills.
He said: “I have never seen Prof Olusola Eleka as an enemy, but I have been seeing him as a co- contestant, so we won’t shy from approaching him to seek his advice on any issue we feel he could be of help for smooth running of our government.
“But this should not be misinterpreted to mean that we are trying to prevent him from seeking justice up to the Supreme Court; he is free to challenge us.
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“The Appeal Court, on Thursday delivered its judgment, declaring that PDP has no evidence of rigging against us, so we are not afraid of being challenged.”
“If you look at the outcome of the results of the just concluded state assembly election, there was no local government where opposition did not score at least 30 percent in all the 16 local government areas.
“So, the conduct had been adjudged free, fair and the outcome was credible going by what INEC said.”
“We feel that skill acquisition is good in view of what we are experiencing in the labour market. We must be able to convert our love in education to wealth and that is what we are out to do.
“We are also creating knowledge zone to make Ekiti a destination when it comes to knowledge and skills. About 117kms of roads will be constructed to link all the towns within that zone together.
“They call it knowledge Park in advanced nations and we are studying how we can pattern our own model after any of the countries that are already practising the policy.”
