BY GBENGA ARIYIBI

ADO EKITI—Ikere Ekiti will again become a university community as the Ekiti State 2014 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate, Mr Ayodele Fayose has promised to return the University of Education, Ikere, which was scrapped by the Fayemi administration.

Fayose, who made the promise, according to a press statement issued by his spokesman, Mr Idowu Adelusi in Ado Ekiti yesterday, said he initiated the university, adding that what he did for Ikere when he was governor, nothing was added by the administrations that came after him.

He said “My two deputies are from Ikere. Likewise the positions of chairman of Local Government Service Commission, special adviser on local government and Majority Leader of the House of Assembly, which were ceded to Ikere.

“The road dualisation from Ado to Ikere started by my administration was not continued. I will continue with the project and stop it along Akure Road. Ikere people are wonderful and I have a great respect for them.”

Meanwhile, the Labour Party governorship candidate in the state, Opeyemi Bamidele has vowed to promote women empowerment if elected governor of the state in the June 21 election.

He spoke during his electioneering campaign in both Erijiyan and Ikogosi-Ekiti in Ekiti West Local Government Area of the state, yesterday.

Bamidele, who expressed worry over the level of participation of women in politics in the state, pledged to change the trend if elected the next governor of the state.

According to him, women’s interests in professional and political careers would be enhanced and protected to put them in a vantage position where they won’t be oppressed.