Osundare to Fayemi: Restore Ekiti values
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we placed values on hard work knowledge acquisition and our parents sold their farms and clothes to send their children to school. they knew the rights from the wrongs at that time1 literary giant prof niyi osundare on monday tasked governor kayode fayemi to use his second coming to fight poverty and moral decadence in the state and restore long held values of ekiti people1 osundare spoke in ado ekiti on monday while delivering an inauguration lecture entitled reclaiming our land restoring our ekiti of our dream in honour of the governor elect who will be sworn in tuesday to succeed fayose whose four-year tenure expired midnight monday1 he bemoaned how fayose by his conduct and utterances made the globe to brand ekiti people who had hitherto been known to be highly knowledgeable as people who have no values1 he urged fayemi to clean the augean stable by instituting policies that would combat poverty and all forms of social ills that had crept into ekiti through the actions of compromising politicians1 ekiti are people that place priority on knowledge wisdom. they know the values of these virtues. they were regarded as extremely stubborn people because they wont compromise their integrity for anything1 there were times when education was a pride and we had the brightest academics like the late professor sam aluko professor adegoke olubunmo chief afe babalola prof. ojo ugbole and many others1 osundare described former governor ayodele fayose as a demagogue who pounced on the moral degradation in the state to promote stomach infrastructure as a fundamental policy of state1 but there came a demagogue who ran authoritarian government in ekiti in a manner that had never been experienced by any state in nigeria1 he stopped at market places to buy roasted corn and ate in public places just to deceive the people when majority of our graduates were not provided with jobs and farm products were wasting away and our value system collapsed calamitously1 education that was regarded as our best industry was not well funded and our graduates that had earlier been regarded as the best in nigeria for decades became practically half-baked and unemployable. book and elitist thinking were his enemies1 the culture of stomach infrastructure was introduced and ekiti became a laughing stock . how populism manifests itself and the politician banked on the vulnerability in the system to mislead our youths1 with fayemi coming on board he needs to tackle poverty and reenact value reorientation in ekiti. he must come with policies and programme of actions that will prohibit miracle centres where students passed without reading and make ekiti vegetation centre of knowledge1 his fayemi nose and ears must be closed to the grounds he must be close to the people and eradicate ignorance and poverty that make our people to believe in stomach infrastructure1 this is yourfayemi second chance and significant opportunity to rewrite your name in gold and make significant impacts on the lives of ekiti people for real restoration of our value system osundare stated1