“Already, I am grooming your chicken for Christmas. I am getting your rice ready to do stomach infrastructure. When I defeated them, they said it was as a result of stomach infrastructure. How can an incumbent be saying that when he had the money, he had the power, he had the might but disconnected himself from the people. They are gone," Fayose said.
Newly-inaugurated Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, says he is so determined to put food on the tables of Ekiti State people that he intends to appoint a Special Adviser on Stomach Infrastructure.
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Delivering his inaugural address on Thursday after he was sworn in by EKiti State Chief Judge, Ayodeji Daramola, Fayose said he would work hard to put food on the table, regardless of public opinion that such measures are called “stomach infrastructure".
Fayose also criticized the All Progressives Congress (APC) for accusing him of luring people to vote for him with stomach infrastructure schemes, while indirectly describing ex-governor Kayode Fayemi as someone who saw himself to be too clean to mix with the people.
“History is being made and my kind of history will take a while to surpass because it is divine. Today marks the 8th anniversary of that dark episode. If you watch very well, Ekiti has been battling with my removal. They could not find peace until God brought me back.
“I have forgiven Ekiti for removing me unjustly and I declare peace, prosperity, progress, employment, food and stomach infrastructure. You can put a tar on the road but if I don’t have a car and I’m hungry, then that tar is meaningless. Tarring our road is wonderful but putting food inside this stomach is very important.
“Already, I am grooming your chicken for Christmas. I am getting your rice ready to do stomach infrastructure. When I defeated them, they said it was as a result of stomach infrastructure. How can an incumbent be saying that when he had the money, he had the power, he had the might but disconnected himself from the people. They are gone."
Continuing, Fayose said promised to dedicate himself to serving the people.
“I will banish hunger in your midst. I will work hard to put food on your table. I represent you. I am living for you. I am here to serve you. That is my assignment,” he said.
“They want me to look like the governor of their imagination but I am governor of your own imagination, he governor that eats boli with you, the governor that drinks agbo jedi with you, the governor that knows that the resources of this state belong to you.
“When I come to buy boli tomorrow, I will drop something. I will look after you. They are too clean in their own eyes to go to the jedi sector and that is why you voted them out. Whether they call it stomach infrastructure, it is their business, because I am going to appoint a special adviser for stomach infrastructure."
Fayose thanked PDP leaders present at the ceremony, noting that he had more than enough governors in house to “intimidate them”. He thanked President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the party for the support, observing that irrespective of his popularity, he could never have become governor without the party’s ticket.
“I won under PDP before and today I am governor through PDP. One thing I have noticed is that if you leave PDP, you will remain in the wilderness of life until you return.
“I also want to express profound gratitude to you my people for keeping faith and identifying with my destiny. One thing that continues to amaze me since I left office is that God has kept my love in your heart. It is difficult for a man to get this kind of opportunity but only God can do this. My mandate is divine.
“By the grace of God, I am the first son of Ekiti to be governor here twice and the first Nigerian politician to defeat two incumbents and all former governors of this state that have served at one point or the other.
“Ekiti people have seen beyond their veil of fraud and deception and rejected them. They call themselves democrats but they are cloned democrats. You have successfully supported me to sack them in this state and send them back to their masters in Lagos."