Adebayo Deserves Best Of Ekiti Legacies, Says APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has reacted to the decision of Governor Ayodele Fayose to rename Ekiti Government House on Oke Ayoba Hills, Ado-Ekiti, after the late Military Governor of the old Western Region and elderstatesman, the late Major-General Adeyinka Adebayo (89), who died recently in Lagos.
Fayose on Monday renamed the edifice and the General Hospital in Iyin-Ekiti, Adebayo’s country home, after the late Nationalist, who will be buried this weekend in Iyin-Ekiti.
Reacting to the governor’s decision in a statement in Ado-Ekiti by the Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party said Fayose’s decision was in right direction and confirmation that the APC’s administration of former Governor Kayode Fayemi that built the structure thought well in giving Ekiti State a legacy that towers above other monuments in the state.
“Fayose’s choice and declaration that Ekiti Government House on Oke Ayoba Hills is the best legacy in Ekiti State is a worthy acknowledgement that Fayemi had a foresight and meant well for Ekiti State when he constructed that great edifice, which is the cheapest of the Government Houses of its generation across Nigeria. “It is also great that Fayose, who earlier played politics with the edifice as a needless Government House and who blackmailed APC led government for erecting the structure, is the same man today that is acknowledging that the building is the best legacy in Ekiti State,” Olatunbosun explained.
He praised Fayose for having the courage for his acknowledgment, even as he said that the late Adebayo, “as a war hero who preached against civil war, who eventually headed a committee for the reconstruction and reintegration of the Biafrans into a united Nigeria, nationalist and statesman and who was also elected as the Chairman of the Yoruba Council of Elders,” deserved nothing less than the best of Ekiti legacy structures in his home state. Olatunbosun added that naming the General Hospital, Iyin-Ekiti, after the late Adebayo is also in order, explaining that the late Army General put health management in the front burner of his administration while he was military governor in the old Western Region.
