The Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation has advised the candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, to stop spreading lies in a desperate attempt to win over the Ekiti electorate.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The LP candidate had during his campaign rally in Ifaki-Ekiti on Monday promised to reverse the merger of the University of Science and Technology in the town with two other state-owned universities, if elected governor.
In a statement on Wednesday, the spokesperson for the KFCO, Dimeji Daniels, said it was laughable that the opposition parties in the state had turned the university merger into an object of lies.
Daniels recalled that the decision to merge the university was not unilateral, but a product of painstaking deliberations at an education summit participated in by eminent educationists of Ekiti origin, including the late Professor Sam Aluko and Professor Akin Oyebode.
He stated that the merger of the universities had brought a new lease of life to Ekiti State University, which now ranks 17 in the webometric ranking of universities as against its earlier ranking of 79.
According to Daniels, the confusion about which of the three universities to give the Tertiary Education Fund to, was only laid to rest after the merger.
He said, “The ability of the Ekiti State University to access the TETFUND, coupled with the capital grants it receives from the State Government, has enabled it to build new structures, thereby sky-rocketing the institution from a hitherto glorified secondary school to a world class university.”
Daniels chided Bamidele whom he said as a member of the defunct ACN was part of the decision-making.
He also faulted him for promising to revive the AM radio station in Ifaki, which, Fayemi had already promised to upgrade to FM radio station.