Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has said that the poultry farms initiated and abandoned by one of his predecessors, Mr. Ayo Fayose, could not be revived because the poultry project was never designed to succeed.

The Governor disclosed this, yesterday, shortly after an inspection of a poultry farm and processing plant established by his administration in Ikere and Ado Ekiti respectively.

He said the poultry project of the Fayose led government was not designed as a viable project.
This, he said, explained the reason the present government has not bothered to resuscitate it like it did some other moribund projects and industries established by past administrations.

Governor Fayemi, who was conducted round the poultry farm and processing plant by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Jide Arowosafe, stated that Fayose’s poultry project which gulped more than a billion naira also did not have a sustainability plan.

He stressed that his administration had put in place a processing plant in Ado  Ekiti for farmers under the Youth in Commercial Agriculture Development, YCAD, with less than N20 million while the Fayose led government merely paid lip service to the people of the State having expended a whopping sum on a similar project that never took off.