•Fayemi (middle); his deputy Prof Modupe Adelabu (fourth right); Dr Olajide (left); Prof Oyebode (second left); Prof Aina; Oba Babalola; Assembly Speaker Adewale Ominrin (third right); Chief Fasuan and Rev Ajakaye.
Posted by: Sulaiman Salawudeen, Ado-Ekiti in News 6 hours ago
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has urged the Federal Government to address defects in the Nigerian federation at the National Conference.
The governor spoke in Ado-Ekiti yesterday while inaugurating the state’s delegation to the conference.
The delegates are Chief Oladeji Fasuan, Prof. Akin Oyebode, Dr. Kunle
Olajide, Prof. Olabisi Aina, Oba Adamo Babalola and Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, Rev. Felix Femi Ajakaye.
Fayemi urged the Federal Government to provide legal support for the confab to enable it have desirable results.
He urged the delegates to be focused and justify the confidence reposed in them.
Fayemi said the state government plans to organise “a mini conference” to enable the delegates interact with people at the grassroots and get their input for the national conference.
He said: “This confab is an opportunity to restructure Nigeria in a way that will bring equity and justice to all Nigerians. It is critical to the existence of a country like Nigeria that is bedeviled by multifarious challenges.”
On the selection of the delegates, Fayemi said: “It was not easy to come up with the eventual selection. You can imagine what I went through to arrive at these eminent indigenes among thousands of qualified people.
“The delegates were chosen based on their comportment, attainments in life and their integrity. They are people who have contributed to the state’s development.
“Chief Fasuan, who will be leading the delegates, played a major role in the creation of Ekiti. I have no doubt that they will do us proud.”
Fasuan, who responded on behalf of the delegates, described their choice as a “call by history and a challenge by history”.
The delegates pledged to represent the state well.
Source: The Nation
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