By Biodun Borisade
Fayemi’s Commissioners, where art thou? From Chef Dammy’s Oye Ekiti to Omowaiye’s Osun, did our then principal leave you so impoverished? – Abiodun Borisade
The night loses its allure as daylight nears… All things of the past will remain in the past, and even memories will be rewritten to reflect the truth and nothing but the truth. – Abiodun Borisade
Until the incumbent governor appoints commissioners in order that his government’s political compass reaches the nooks and crannies, homestead and farmstead, Governor Fayemi’s last appointed commissioners have the responsibility as community/political leaders to assist sustain and build upon the Fayemi legacies, if at all there is such a thing.
The thrust of this review examines the supporting gesture towards Chef Dammy, a young lady out to prove her skills in the culinary world by attempting to break the Guinness world record, and how the top echelon of Ekiti community courtesy political structure is blinded to the need for not only material support but also visible comradeship which Chef Dammy requires, as in actuality, Chef Dammy is riding on the Ekiti platform just as Chef Hilda rode on the Lagos platform.
The first question for the immediate past commissioners, particularly the commissioners for youths/sports and the women’s affairs commissioner, are you this insensitive to the trend in your state or that impoverished that you can’t recognize with this young person’s innovation?
For many observers and commentators, the gesture from Honourable Omowaiye from Osun state, the neighboring state whose commissionership service time incidentally coincides with yours is a pointer to how impoverished the Fayemi commissioners are.
Fayemi’s last commissioner for Information and Civil orientation, himself from Oye town where Chef Dammy pitched her campaign is nowhere to be found, even with the just announced support from the ever-inspiring first lady of the state Her Excellency Dr (Mrs) Oyebanji.
Clearly the name of the ministry he recently superintendent is lost on him. The Fayemi legacies are gradually crumbling and giving way to a new order. What is left of the continuity team was in Lagos wining and dining at the occasion celebrating the 60th birthday of a soon-to-be inconsequential person. The price tag came to about 100 million naira, yes, a whopping 100 million naira. Chef Dammy’s efforts clearly need financial support as it was rumoured that her meals where sold at a thousand naira per plate. The young lady needs assistance, as it’s said the world over, ‘there is no free meal anywhere ‘.
Most if not all attempts at creating or breaking records require sponsorship, how Ikogosi Resort is yet to latch on to Chef Dammy’s exploit is bewildering, here is an opportunity in publicity that can’t go wrong, and till this hour of publishing, no visible effort to reach out to Chef Dammy by an outfit hoping to gain traction in the hearts and minds of people far and beyond from Ekiti, whilst both ventures are riding on the Ekiti platform?
The second and most poignant question to the set of immediate past commissioners of the Fayemi regime… Isn’t it too early in the day to have abandoned public association in your principal’s name because surely Hon Omowaiye’s name remains synonym to his principal’s or did he really leave you in financial ruins, that it had to take an ex-commissioner from a neighboring state to wake up your conscience of responsibility? After all the same state where Chef Dammy hails from increased the potency of your CV and work experience, whatever happened to the culture of giving back to society?
