‘We Kept Our Promise’, Fayemi Tells Ekiti People in Valedictory Speech, Makes Triumphant Entry into Esan

The former Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has said that his administration, through its eight-point agenda, has reduced poverty to the barest minimum in the state over the last four years.

The governor, in a valedictory speech entitled ‘The Promise Kept’, which was relayed on the state owned media yesterday, said his government was able to win the war against poverty owing to the selfless service he rendered to the people.

Fayemi, who thanked the people of the state for supporting his administration, stated that the “8-point agenda of our government was not a campaign gimmick. It served as our compass. We kept faith to the direction in which it pointed”.

Meanwhile, Fayemi has made a triumphal entry into Isan Ekiti, his country home after leaving the Government House in Ado Ekiti.

The outgoing governor, the second in the history of the state to complete his 4-year term, was received yesterday by a mammoth crowd of Isan indigenes, friends and well wishers who had been awaiting him at Ilafon boundary of the town since 10am.

Fayemi alighted from his vehicle at the boundary around 2pm and trekked with his kinsmen to the palace of the Onisan of Isan, Oba Sunday Ajiboye, who thereafter prayed for him. The crowd also followed him to his residence thereafter.