By Rotimi Ojomoyela

Ado Ekiti—The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose yesterday described his performance in the last one year, as satisfactory.

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Fayose was sworn-in in October 16 last year.

Fayose, who made the self-appraisal in Ado-Ekiti while inspecting some projects, said; “Considering the lean resources available to the State due to huge debt incurred by the immediate past administration, we have done well.’’

However, the All Progressives Congress, (APC), in Ekiti State has described the first year of Governor Fayose’s administration as a fortune reversal for the state.

The party said the gains of Governors Segun Oni and Dr Kayode Fayemi administrations had been eroded by Fayose’s government of impunity and violence.

APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said in a statement that the experience of Ekiti people in the last one year  had shown clearly that  there was nothing to celebrate in terms of achievements.

Projects inspected by  Fayose yesterday include, the dualisation of Awedele road, the seven kilometer Police Headquarters road and the dredging and channelisation of erosion prone areas.

“I have said that I will leave no project uncompleted during my four–year term. It is my duty to ensure that all Ekiti residents feel the dividends of democracy. Though, we have paucity of funds but within the little resources we have, I think I have satisfied my conscience and done creditably well,” he said.

Meantime, the APC, accused Fayose of running a one-man government without regard to the law,  citing the new un-budgeted airport project that had led to the death of a farmer over shock of felling his economic trees without compensation.

Six-month reprieve to squatters

Also yesterday, reprieve came the way of over 5,000 residents of Olorunsogo and Olorunda areas of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, as the State Government gave them a six-month to regularise their titles to the land.

They are to pay N100,000 per plot for illegally building their houses on the state government’s  land.