Fayemi places Ekiti on honourable footing –Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said that outgoing Gov­ernor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, had placed the state on an honourable footing through various programmes and legacy projects. He said however, that the decision to toe Fay­emi’s honourable path was the choice of the governor’s successor.

The Nobel Laureate, who commissioned the new Gov­ernment House christened, ‘Ayoba Villa’ in Ado Ekiti yesterday said the new Gov­ernor’s Lodge was opened to the next governor of the state to, “either honour or des­ecrate.”

Soyinka noted that Ekiti State had known very hon­ourable people such as the late governor of the old West­ern State, Adekunle Fajuyi; saying he had been watching Fayemi and was happy that the outgoing governor did him proud.

He urged Ekiti people not to lose hope of having an­other governor, who would yet again, be “honourable, intelligent, committed and humanistic.”

Turning to Governor Fay­emi, Soyinka said: “I have known you, I am watching you and I am proud of you. This building here, this edi­fice, has known honourable people. This edifice, I know it didn’t exist at the time I want to speak of very briefly, but I am talking about the seat of government in Ekiti State. It has known honourable, brave, intelligent and committed people like Adekunle Fajuyi. “My hope is that it will after the departure of Kayode, yet again, know honourable, in­telligent committed humanis­tic rulers. Don’t despair, don’t give up. I have the honour and the delight of opening this building and also applaud­ing the gesture that it is be­ing done without the slightest rancour, being done to leave it open to a next governor to either honour or desecrate.”