Appearing as a guest on Sunrise, 20 days to the election, along with House of Reps member and leader of the Fayemi Campaign Organisation, Bimbo Daramola, Mrs Bruce claimed that there were 400,000 unemployed youths in the State, a figure which had given rise to political thuggery and violence.
She further claimed that inidigenes of the State were still practicing subsistence farming, attributing this to the non-performance of the current administration and noting that the LP was offering a new hope, new dawn, a government that would be unusual, real democracy and a government that would be accountable to the people.
"Right now in Ekiti State, we still practice substance farming," she said, adding that the first love of the State was agriculture. Therefore the LP is also promising mechanized farming as well as youth empowerment to the 400,000 employable youths who are roaming on the streets.
The LP representative also took on the issue of Local Government elections in the state which had not been held and which she alleged to be a deliberate move by the APC administration to control the Local Governments.
However, Congressman Daramola, representing Ekiti North Federal Constituency, debunked the claims made by the LP representative,claiming that the Governor could not have conducted the elections because there was a case in court which arose from its previous attempt to conduct the elections.
After arguing his way out of allegations that the court case was an orchestration of the Government, who purportedly made a party member the head of the electoral body to provoke litigation, he went on to list the achievements of the Fayemi-led government.
"The only man who is coming to this election with a paid cheque is Dr. John Kayode Fayemi. His cheque is paid, not promissory notes. Every other person is coming on promisory notes," he said, in defence of the Governor, although the Labour Party woman later refereed to it as "dud cheques".
Presenting a newspaper publication containing the progress made in over 3 years, Daramola further stated that each one of the 131,000 villages and towns in the State had no less than 5 projects running.
He noted that Ekiti state had moved beyond subsistence farming 3 years ago and had gone further to set up the Youths In Commercial Agriculture policy.
In what turned out to be a fierce debate, with claims and counterclaims, Bruce alleged that all the achievements the Fayemi administration had publicized were not real.
She went ahead to state that the social security scheme for the elderly, put together by the State was merely a ruse to appreciate loyal supporters of the All Progressives Congress.
Source: Channels
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