By Halimah Olamide
Former Governor of Ekiti State Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Wednesday told legal luminary, Afe Babalola to stop spewing wrong narrative about his administration.
Fayemi, who said enough of negatives and wrong assessment of his time in office, was responding to comments by the founder of Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti, who commended the incumbent Biodun Oyebanji while rating his predecessors as failures.
“Chief Babalola has been relentless in his attack. But I’m sorry, I won’t allow him to control the narrative about my time in office. It is important for people to know this is malicious, and not a dispassionate and objective assessment. The only thing I brought to public service is my name and I won’t let people take my silence as consent as far as his opinion is concerned,” Fayemi said
Saying that Babalola’s biased views must now come to a stop, Fayemi said he had initially thought of ignoring his comments.
“Chief Babalola’s prejudiced view can never be the final word on our time in office; certainly not on my time in office because I know, and the record is crystal clear, that I improved the state on every developmental indices than I met it. But then, Chief Babalola is an old man, and as a well-brought-up Omoluabi, one should grant him the indulgence of failing memory that comes with age,” he said.
He however thanked Babalola for having the courage to acknowledge the performance of his successor, Governor Oyebanji saying his administration which the eminent lawyer seeks to diminish paved the way for his emergence as the Governor.
Fayemi said it is no longer in the interest of anyone to allow Babalola to muddle up facts adding that he and others who served the state did their part to put the state on a sound footing.