He also presented car gifts with a week long holiday in London or Dubai for all best teachers in the category of primary and secondary school as well as the headmaster general of the state.
Speaking during the celebration of Teachers’ Day, held at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado Ekiti, Fayose, who lauded the teachers’ efforts in getting the state to come tops in NECO for two consecutive years promised that his government will continue to prioritize the welfare of the teachers in the state.
The governor said, “I thank you so much. You have done very well and deserve to be celebrated. Today, you have put my enemies to shame by making me proud. They said that I am not educated but I have improved greatly on education in the state.
“Today, I have made Ekiti teachers proud without subjecting them to inhuman treatment that the last administration subjected them to. You will not see those tormentors again. Today, you can see the difference. This is why I am giving you my dear son, Olusola, for next governor, just like Jesus gave the Holy Spirit as Comforter when He was leaving the Christians.
“Any other person crying in our party, is crying for his selfishness, because we already have a Southern agenda in my deputy, Olusola. It is only in continuity that you can continue to have car gifts for teachers in the state. Just like it is being sustained in Lagos, let us sustain the Fayose legacy in Ekiti and ensure this government continues.”
It would be recalled that Ekiti state has since 2016 been coming tops in the National Examination Council (NECO) exams and maintaining the top position till date with a margin of 85 percent in the recently released results of NECO.
Fayose had celebrated last year’s World Teachers’ Day with brand new car gifts to best teachers from both the primary and secondary sections of the state. He also distributed cash of N50 million, which was paid directly into the teachers’ personal bank accounts.
He also gave out the cash gift of N100 million which would be paid directly into the personal accounts of the teachers with the promise to increase the largesse to N150 million next year should the success be repeated.
Other cash gifts and many other gifts were handed out to the teachers
Fayose granted the prayers of the teachers and announced the immediate and automatic promotion of all primary teachers on level grade 14 to level l5 for those who are graduates among them.
At the event, the state council of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), and the state House of Assembly Speaker, Pastor Kola Oluwawole used the medium to call on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to immediately charge the arrested Commissioner for finance, Toyin Ojo and Accountant General of the State, Mrs. Yemisi Owolabi to Court, if they actually have anything against them.
The chairman of NLC in the state, Comrade Ade Adesanimi, said the anti-graft’s continued detention of the commissioners is delaying the payment of salaries to the hungry workers in the state.
Adesanmi, who was represented by his Vice-chairman, Gbenga Akosile, said: “If the EFCC has anything against them, they should charge the commissioners to court so that they can come home and pay us our salaries. We are currently hungry and we want to collect the little that we are entitled to now. The actions and inactions of politicians is having a toll on Workers in Ekiti.”
