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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has appealed to of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria against allowing themselves to be used by kidnappers to perpetrate evil.

Speaking on Thursday during the swearing-in of the new State Executives of the union in Ado Ekiti, the governor, who said he was once a Danfo driver, appealed to the drivers to be orderly and not to be desperate.

He said, “Please, I want to commend you for contributing immensely to the development of the state’s economy, but don’t allow yourselves to be used by evil doers. You can see that some kidnappers were paraded recently. Information from them revealed that they have been using some of your .
“I was once a driver like you. I used the money I got from driving to sponsor myself for HND at Ibadan Polytechnic, but I did not get desperate. All I’m saying is that being a driver you can make it in life. You will become what you want to become in life with hard work. Don’t evil gang for you to get rich overnight, try and rise through the ladder like we did.”

He cautioned drivers against reckless driving, reminding them of the ‘don’t drink and drive’ rule.

“Though I am part of you, but if you breach the law, I won’t save or spare you. You will be arrested and prosecuted by the security agents,” he said.

The governor, who recalled that he united the two unions – RTEAN and National Union of Road and Transport Workers – in his first term, said the occasion was a sign that good things were coming in Ekiti .

“We should emulate this kind of occasion. This is very good. We will always identify with this kind of achievements. You are doing a good job for this country. I don’t want to be the enemies of drivers, I want to be your friend.”

He also thanked the unions for standing by him during the failed impeachment plot against him by the former 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers.

Fayose, who had earlier spoken at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Institute of Strategic Management, appealed to leaders to focus attention on how to banish poverty that is killing the potentials of many Nigerians.

Speaking on the theme ‘Strategies for Poverty Alleviation,’ Fayose said his desperate bid to banish poverty in the land had propelled him to pioneer the stomach infrastructure concept that had become a brand in the country.

“In tackling poverty, the first thing to do is to empower the people. But before empowerment, you must make them look healthy through provision of food. Let them get access to you as a leader, this will give them sense of belonging and relief.

“Some of the projects being executed by MDGs centred on poverty alleviation. Poverty has become a serious issue in Nigeria. That was why my government make the payment of salaries the first thing, because this will keep the people and the economy going.

“I received close to 200 to 300 calls and messages daily on stomach infrastructure. Though, 90 percent of it is about money, but we should not shy away from the fact that the concept has become a way of life in Nigeria as a good weapon to tackle poverty among the common people.”

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Eeyah. How tins change

It's [size=20pt]LadyF [/size] again

a former danfo driver now a state governor, that's really an achievement. i know for sure every morning when he wakes up he is always gonna be thankful for where he is and that's really the kind of life i want to live, looking back and realising how God has really blessed me.

buh fayose no be my pesin, the guy geh big mouth...

Very obvious, he has seen it rough before

Rugged governor with skills from the street,

Impossibility is nothing!

Shout out to all keke and danfo drivers, just believe, you all are governors in the making.

No wonder. The trait is still in him.

Give this man called fayose a bottle of chilled orijin he deserve to be our next President come 2019 he alone understands local politics.

The likes of him that used the same MO got to the throne people like mko gej

www.

Not news.
We once had a president who didn't have a shoe.
I was once a farmer....
All na garnishing

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Ekiti people don suffer....what an irony the most acclaimed intellectuals now being govern by a once LURTW member

ikbnice:
No wonder. The trait is still in him.

well, he said he needed the job to pay his school fees. . . . . . . . . . ..

every1 has a past whether good or bad.....what matters is how ur past engineers ur present n also ur future....

God bless Ekiti ppl and de Governor...

No wonder he's always at home with them. He behaves and dress like them. The garage blood still flows in him.

Even im dress don show am b4

God Bless You More My ROLE MODEL!

He's was even driving sef, Gej use 2 walk barefooted from otuoke 2 amuoke

#picks race

No wonder. Once a tout... (fill in the blanks).

No wonder he always talk like them.

I dont think he should be abused for saying he worked to put himself through school though.

There is dignity in labour.

Obasanjo was once used as a pawn by his very poor parents.

^ explain.

No wonder he acts the way he does.

tpiander:
I dont think he should be abused for saying he worked to put himself through school though.
There is dignity in labour.

Explains everything really. From today I shall start respecting this man. E no easy for agbero to turn Governor.

In pick milk voice; it's in you

No wonder

Hmm is like associating yourself to the common man na E sure for politics. To foyose your own is not the first, the first person na MKO
MKO - I was once a fire wood seller
GEJ - I was once without shoe
Now is fayose saying he was once a DANFO DRIVER

to those wey won contest for 2019 if you don't have I WAS ONCE na offside you dey

Thug life

@ khalleb

you're mixing up obasanjo with mko abiola.

No wonder, the agbero tendency still dey him body wella. Am sure he still smokes weed on a regular basis...more reason he likes taking pics while eating like someone who has been handed a death sentence.

tpiander:
@ khalleb

you're mixing up obasanjo with mko abiola.

Hoo you are totally correct

Tnx

My mentor the obasanjo slayer.