Respected legal luminary and founder of the Afe Babalola University, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) has stated that all former Governors of Ekiti failed to implement the state’s blueprint.
He stated this while speaking at the commissioning of ABUAD Multi-System Hospital, Annex Odo-Ado, at Igirigiri road in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.
Babalola who commended Governor Biodun Oyebanji for his recent strides, added that the vision behind the creation of Ekiti was to make it the best state in Nigeria.
He said;
“It pains me that you didn’t become governor of Ekiti much earlier than now. We know what we did to bring Ekiti State into existence. Our vision was for Ekiti to be the best state in Nigeria, that will be setting the pace as my university is setting the pace now.
“Unfortunately those who became governor before you didn’t have the love of Ekiti. Go and tell them that I said so. That is why we are facing so much hardship in the state. When I was a local government councilor in the sixties, I didn’t receive a salary.
“That was when there was development in Ekiti Local Government. We thought that those who are coming to govern Ekiti will follow our footstep and our blueprints but they refuse to follow it. However, this governor is doing a yeoman’s job.”
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