The campaign organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ekiti State, BKCO, has said the party will prioritise security, welfare of the people and infrastructural development, if it returns to power in October.
Bisi Kolawole Campaign Organisation (BKCO) noted that the governorship election campaign will be issue-based, adding that alleged records of mis-governance by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state will form part of the issues.
The spokesperson of the organisation, Lere Olayinka, said in a statement that, while the PDP will remind Ekiti people of the number of workers employed when it was in power, it is expected that the APC should also tell the people how many workers its government sacked.
The statement read: “As we move into the campaign for the governorship election, our party and its candidate will no doubt be reminding Ekiti people how safe the state was four years ago.
“We will be juxtaposing how secured Ekiti was during the immediate past PDP government, such that the state was adjudged the safest in the South-West with the Ekiti of today, in which bandits now operate freely on almost all the roads, kidnapping people at will and collecting food items, cigarettes, alcoholic drinks and even sachet water as ransom.
“We will also be telling Ekiti people how workers employed during the PDP government were wickedly sacked on Christmas Eve by the APC government and assuring those sacked of better treatment.
“We in the PDP will be reminding Ekiti people of the construction of the old and new Governor’s Office, High Court Complex, House of Assembly Complex, State Secretariat, Adunni Olayinka Women Development Centre, Oba Adejugbe General Hospital, Oja Oba Market and Fayose Market, all in Ado Ekiti, among others.
“APC will sure be talking about the Oja Oba Market that its government constructed in billboards, despite taking N2.7 billion loan for its construction and the Civic Centre it built for 10 years.
“Also, the PDP in Ekiti State will be gladly and confidently reeling out records of roads constructed and rehabilitated during its government.
“This is with assurance that the PDP government will not abandon our roads to become nightmares for travellers and an embarrassment to the people as they are now, such that Governor Kayode Fayemi could not provide a single explanation when he was told by his fellow governor that from ‘Akure to Ekiti, no road.’
“Most importantly and funny enough, the APC will have to even convince the people of Ikogosi Ekiti in Ekiti West Local Government Area why they should trust their own son, who could not help restore power supply to the town despite being Secretary to the State Government for over three years.
“Finally, as we go into the issue-based campaign, the PDP candidate, Honourable Bisi Kolawole, will tell the people how he will return Ekiti to a state where government is responsive, responsible, felt and seen by the common man.”
