Youths in Ekiti State yesterday vowed to support youthful candidate in the forthcoming governorship election in the state, saying the interest of the youths have not been given priority attention by successive governments in the state.
The youths who spoke at a rally held in Ado Ekiti, described the past governors elected on the platforms of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and the All Progressives Congress(APC) as colossal failures in the delivery of the democratic dividends to the people, especially they youths.
They specifically asked Ekiti people to reject any candidate presented by Governor Ayodele Fayose in the impending poll, just as they advised the populace to block attempt by former governors Kayode Fayemi and Segun Oni to return to government to give way for vibrant and resourceful people to take over power .
During the procession, which started at Adebayo area and terminated at Ajilosun, leading to traffic snarl on the Ado Ekiti dual carriage way, they said the state has made no remarkable progress under the leaderships of the trio to warrant their dominance on Ekiti politics.
The youths unanimously adopted the candidacy of Com. Tosin Ajibare, from Ikere in Ekiti South senatorial district for the governorship race on the premise that past leaders have failed the populace.
Ajibare who is to contest the election on the platform of the Independent Democrat (ID) told the residents at the party’s secretariat in the state capital, that the youths will begin what he called a ‘political revolution’ in the state in 2018, describing the recycling of leadership as the greatest impediment militating against the state in all spheres.
“To underscore the level of failure of these past and present leaders, they advised us to go to school, we did that but nothing happened afterwards. No jobs, no bursary, no scholarship. All they wanted to be using us for is political thuggery.”
A student leader in Ekiti State University, Valentine Ugochinyere, said students are paying between N100,000 and N150,000 in the institution in a poverty-stricken state like Ekiti.
“It is only a fool that will say a ‘congo’ of rice and N200 is enough for him to keep him to survive for a period of four years. Enough of this deception by our leaders.”
