APC describes plans by Fayose to cloth 10,000 kids for Christmas as in insincere

-Fayose reveals plans to put smiles on the faces of the people of Ekiti by buying Christmas clothes for 10, 000 children.

-The opposition APC has however condemned the move by the governor, and accused him to neglecting important aspects of governance.

The Ekiti State government, has concluded plans to provide clothes for 10,000 poor children in the state in the spirit of celebrating Christmas.

The All Progressives Congress in the state has however,  described the news  as another trick  by Governor, Ayodele Fayose, to siphon the state’s wealth.

According to a statement signed  by Idowu Adelusi, the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Fayose disclosed this while meeting with the association of tailors in Ado Ekiti.

The governor also promised to buy additional 100 sewing machines to complement those to be used by volunteer tailors during the exercise after which the machines would be given out to tailors through a transparent balloting process.

“When we were young, we always looked forward to the Christmas and New Year festivities that at least our parents would buy clothes for us,” Mr. Fayose was quoted by the statement.

“But with the prevailing economic situation in the country, some parents may not be able to do that and we felt we can help to bridge such gap.

“The exercise is part of our Stomach Infrastructure Programme and we have to take care of the needs of our people and make them happy.

“Also, it is a kind of financial empowerment for our people as we are buying all the materials here. We are also going to give the volunteer tailors some stipends during the exercise.

“At the end of the exercise, some of the tailors will go home with sewing machines. In Ado-Ekiti, we are projecting to have five centres and maybe two in Ikere and one each in other local government areas.”

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Only children between the ages of one to 10 years would benefit from the exercise and that it would be on a first-come-first-served basis.

But, the Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Party (APC) in the state, Taiwo Olatunbosun, described the governor’s plan as a grand scheme to loot the treasuries of the state..

“It is sheer greed, wickedness and callous insensitivity to Ekiti people’s plights for Fayose to refuse to address doctors’ strike in the public hospitals over unpaid salaries while other workers remain unpaid for between six and nine months but he is planning and talking of buying Christmas clothes for 10,000 Ekiti children just because he wants to make money from such unsolicited show of love while tens of hundreds of Ekiti indigenes, old and young, are dying in Ekiti hospitals for lack of medical services as a result of the governor’s insensitivity to the immediate needs of our people over non-payment of doctors and civil servants’ salaries and pensioners,” he said.

“From our observation of Fayose’s greed and callousness, he is behaving as if he will not exist tomorrow and so he does not owe anybody anything and so does not care about what becomes of his image or what happens to the lives of the people he leads.”

“It is high time Ekiti people, workers and labour leaders opened their eyes and minds to Fayose’s deliberate deceits before majority of our people end in their early graves.”

“Fayose should pay the salaries, pensions and gratuities of the parents of those children he is planning to buy Christmas clothes for to allow them perform their parental roles instead of the governor buying cheap cloths at exorbitant costs, more than half of which will end up in private pocket as we had during NULGE and Teachers’ Day celebrations.

“The workers and pensioners know their responsibilities as parents to their children if the eight to nine months salary and pensions arrears are paid.”