EKITI State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose yesterday arrested an operative of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) at Ikere Ekiti for flouting traffic rule.
Fayose, who went to flag-off the construction of the Ado-Ikere-Iju dualisation and the commissioning of the downtown market stall in the town, stopped his convoy at Oke–Ikere area of the town and ordered that the man be stopped and his car seized.
The road safety operative, who was identified as Mr Alabi had taken the left side of the road with intention to dodge the dilapidated portion of the dual carriage way, which infuriated the governor who was on that rough portion of the road. Fayose immediately ordered that the vehicle should be taken to the office of the Ekiti State Traffic Management Agency in Ado Ekiti, with directive that all necessary fines must be paid.
Meanwhile, Fayose had clarified that the passion to open up Ado Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State to business opportunities and make it a befitting city made him to concentrate many of his projects in the town.
Fayose, who said this at the palace of Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe while inspecting the N250 million worth pavilion being built by the state government, said the project is in honour of Ekiti people and the entire Ado Ekiti indigenes.
“Ado Ekiti is the living room for Ekiti State. Whatever impression outsiders have about Ado-Ekiti will be for the entire state.
There is no politics about this. I only want to do what is right. “Just like I said earlier, I will pull down the old Oja-Oba on November 8. I have told the traders to move to Awedele where there are spaces. I have paid about N200 million compensation. All these are being done to give our capital city a face lift,” he said.
Also speaking at the commissioning of the e-library at the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, Fayose said no stone would be left unturned to realise the vision of revamping the education sector in the State.
Fayose also declared that he wouldn’t interfere in the succession battle for the appointment of new Provost for the College, as the tenure of Prof Francisca Aladejana would come to an end soon.
