All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of desecrating the tomb of a late Deputy Governor, Funmilayo Olayinka.
Olayinka served as deputy to former Governor Kayode Fayemi between October 16, 2010 and April 6, 2013, when she died of cancer.
In a statement by the APC Chairman for Ado Ekiti Local Government, Mr. D.O Adigun, the party expressed reservation that Fayose is “building a women centre within the confine of the park and almost right on the tomb.”
“To us this is a disservice and deliberate extreme partisanship to fight and dishonor Moremi even in death. There are lots of open and undesignated spaces across the state capital that could be used for the so called women centre,” the party added.
But reacting, Fayose through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said building a four storey edifice (Women Development Centre) in front of the late deputy governor’s tomb could not amount to desecration.
“The more the APC spew out errant nonsense as they have been doing, the more the party is hated by Ekiti people, who overwhelmingly made Fayose their governor.”
Olayinka explained that the Women Development Centre, being built in honour of Olayinka, would serve as location for addressing issues relating to women in the State.
“To Governor Fayose, dumping the late deputy governor’s corpse in an open space with no benefit to the people is not enough. Rather, while the tomb remains where it is, the government has deemed it necessary to put up an edifice in front of the tomb in her honour and for the benefit of women in the State.
“If the APC people in the state are seeing that as desecration of her tomb, something needs to be done to their reasoning faculty urgently,” Olayinka added.
APC, Fayose Disagree over ex-deputy Gov’s tomb
