Ekiti people deserve more than ‘congos of rice, cash stipends’ – Guber aspirant, Segun Adewale

Otunba Segun Adewale, popularly known as Aeroland has faulted the stomach infrastructure scheme of the Ayo Fayose administration.

He said it was portraying Ekiti as hungry and poverty stricken people instead of helping them.

Adewale said Ekiti people deserved more than what he called ‘a Congo of rice and cash stipends’.

The guber aspirant, who kicked off his familiarisation visits across the state with distribution of many smart television sets, motorbikes and smart cell phones, said his desire to eradicate poverty in Ekiti through massive skills acquisition scheme and provision of enduring social amenities, inspired his ambition to become the governor of the state in 2018.

“Rather than giving Congos of rice, we are giving motorbike, flat screen television sets and smart phones to the people as our own Christmas gifts and Stomach Infrastructure for them.

“The moment you give them rice, you are not dignifying Ekiti, you are saying that is their worth, but we are saying they can get better deals in TV sets, phones and others.
This is to wake them up that they can get better things. If I have never held any political position in my life and can give these items out of my private pocket, imagine what I would do when I become the governor. We are giving 1000 telephones per ward in 177 wards in all 16 local government areas, 10 television sets per ward, and 10 motorbike for each of 16 local government areas. When we do this . people will now believe in themselves,” he said.
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Adewale, an entrepreneur, philanthropist and grassroots politician in Lagos State and a native of Ipoti-Ekiti in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State, said he was saddened by the fact that an average Ekiti man has been impoverished by successive governments and made to believe that his miserable condition cannot be made better.

“I am here to change the perspective of the people, their minds have been conditioned to poverty, successive governments have also stamped it that poverty is in Ekiti, so my people see that and resigned to fate.

“We will start by changing their mindsets which had been bastardised for years that they can be educated and still be poor. We will now convert the knowledge to wealth, we will make sure that you are not only educated, but you have a trade that currants as you wealth”, he said.

“For us to overcome poverty, we must change our people’s orientation, and establish technology and give adequate power. We will give huge grants to departments in universities to generate power for the state and sponsor many other productive ventures in the schools,” he said.

But reacting, Ekiti State Commissioner for Information, Youths and Sports Development, Lanre Ogunsuyi, said the infrastructure scheme of governor Fayose had hugely saved many families from misery and lack, adding that if the scheme wasn’t good, other government and top politicians in the country wouldn’t have adopted it.