Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Monday shunned the national award ceremony which held in Abuja. The governor, who was awarded Commander of the Order of the Niger alongside more than 300 other recipients, refused to attend the ceremony where others were decorated by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Rather than going for the national award ceremony in Abuja, Fayemi whose tenure is expected to end on October 15, 2014 headed for the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Osun State where his wife, Bisi, inaugurated the Centre for Gender and Social Policy Studies she built for the university.
He said, “I am pleased to make these short remarks on this very special occasion which is the official commissioning ceremony of the Gender Studies Centre at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, state of Osun, which is being donated by my wife, H.E. Erelu ’Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi. I have had to shelve equally important events that came to my notice after we had scheduled this event and made extensive preparations. It is thus at great cost that I am here in demonstration of my dedication to a worthy cause.”
“Nothing can be more important than this (donation of the project). The CON can be posted to me by courier but nobody can post this to me.” Some of those who attended the ceremony were of the opinion that the governor decided to shun the award because of the alleged war against him by the Peoples Democratic Party.
The governor’s campaign office and the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress were attacked on Friday by hoodlums who were on rampage following the killing of a former Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Mr. Omolafe Aderiye, who was a staunch supporter of governor-elect, Mr. Ayo Fayose.
Some sympathisers of the APC are of the opinion that the Federal Government led by the PDP was giving a tacit backing to the crisis in Ekiti State saying that was the reason security agencies allowed the attack on the judiciary to take place before reacting.
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