All former Governors of Ekiti failed to implement the state’s blueprint – Afe Babalola says as he hails current Governor

The Chancellor and founder of Afe Babalola University, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), remarked that all past Governors of Ekiti State had fallen short in executing the state’s blueprint.

Speaking during the inauguration of the ABUAD Multi-System Hospital, Annex Odo-Ado, situated on Igirigiri road in Ado Ekiti, Babalola praised Governor Biodun Oyebanji for recent advancements, emphasizing that the overarching goal of establishing Ekiti was to elevate it to the status of the foremost state in Nigeria.

“It pains me that you didn’t become governor of Ekiti much earlier than now. We know what we did to bring Ekiti State into existence. Our vision was for Ekiti to be the best state in Nigeria, that will be setting the pace as my university is setting the pace now.

“Unfortunately those who became governor before you didn’t have the love of Ekiti. Go and tell them that I said so. That is why we are facing so much hardship in the state. When I was a local government councilor in the sixties, I didn’t receive a salary.

“That was when there was development in Ekiti Local Government. We thought that those who are coming to govern Ekiti will follow our footstep and our blueprints but they refuse to follow it. However, this governor is doing a yeoman’s job.”