The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, on
Wednesday told President Mu- hammadu Buhari that
Nigerians did not vote for Economic Recession but
for change from hardship to prosperity. The
governor also asked Buhari to stop blaming past
leaders, particularly ex-President Goodluck Jonathan
for the current economic recession in the country.
Fayose told the President to live by the Change
acronym, failing ‘which Nigerians will change the
change’. Appreciating teachers in Ekiti State for
making Ekiti rank first in the 2016 National Ex-
aminations Council (NECO) in the country, Fayose
donated a sum of N50 million to the teachers and
two brand new Kia Rio cars to the best teachers in
both public prima-ry and secondary schools in the
state.
Addressing the teachers at the Oluyemi Kayode
Stadium in Ado-Ekiti in commemora- tion of the 2016
World Teachers’ Day, Fayose said: “What we voted for
in 2015 was plenty and bountiful blessing and not
economic recession. Today, Nigerian teachers can no
longer afford three-square meal a day.
“Nigerians are not begging for too much, what they
wanted is to change their fortunes for better.
President Buhari must stop complaining. He must
address this recession that is killing Nigerians”.
Fayose, who promised to increase the incentive to a
sum of N100 million in 2017, if the teachers can
sustain the feat, said his government won’t leave
huge debt of outstand-ing salary arrears as a burden
for the succeeding government.
The governor added that his government will
continue to treat teachers with dignity and celebrate
their competence to help the future of the state.