PDP Says Fayemi, Playing Politics With Lives; Asks Him To Face Governance |The Source

By Ayodele Oni

The People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), Ekiti State, has accused the State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, of playing politics with the lives of people of the state. He has  refused to go against suspected killer Fulani Herdsmen, the party alleges.

The party, while reacting to weekend murder of two farmers by suspected Fulani Herdsmen at Isaba Ekiti, in Ikole local government, decried the incessant killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen in the State.

A statement by the Publicity Secretary of PDP in the state, Mr Raphael Adeyanju, challenged Governor Fayemi, to concentrate more on the governance of the state.

“The killing by herders must stop now and that the Governor Fayemi must act with sincerity of purpose.”

Governor Fayemi had visited families of the deceased farmers to condole with them during which he advised the people of the state to resort to traditional means to defend themselves against the herdsmen attacks.

The ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) has equally flayed the killings which it blamed on infiltration of the state by some miscreants.

The PDP pointed out that the Governor must stop shedding crocodile tears and acting political correctness on the killings in the State.

“Governor Fayemi should learn from his immediate predecessor,  Ayodele Fayose and take proactive steps like he did then.

“We are even more worried now that the governor has more or less declared to Ekiti people that they are on their own by telling the people of Isaba Ekiti,  that they should use traditional means to defend themselves against killer herdsmen.

“Also, it is imperative to state that  the governor’s visit to Isaba Ekiti,  as good as it may be, is more of playing to the gallery for cheap political gains.

“This is because it has become a routine among politicians to go about paying condolence visits to families of victims of avoidable deaths and we are sure that after the visit, the government will pay no attention to those left behind by the victims.

“Rather than condolence visits, what is important to us in PDP is the government putting a permanent stop to the killings and giving life back to those hapless women and children whose bread winners were murdered owing to government negligence and carelessness.

“It is also important that leaders of Fulani herders in the State are summoned by the government and handed a matching order to produce killers of those persons in Isaba Ekiti because they cannot claim not to know the killers among their people.

“The governor must have to engage leaders of the Fulanis as done by Fayose when he was governor so that they can join hands with government to flush out criminal elements among them.

“Most importantly, Governor Fayemi must stop giving consideration to his future political ambition at the expense of the lives and properties of Ekiti people.”