Why I Shunned National Award Ceremony – Fayemi

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State on Monday shunned the national award ceremony which held in Abuja.

The governor, who was awarded Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) alongside more than 300 other recipients in other categories, refused to attend the ceremony at the International Conference Centre where others were decorated by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Fayemi, whose tenure as governor of Ekiti is expected to end on October 15, 2014 chose instead to go to the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Osun State, where his wife, Erelu Bisi, inaugurated the Centre for Gender and Social Policy Studies she built for the premier university.
He said, “I am pleased to make these short remarks on this very special occasion which is the official commissioning ceremony of the Gender Studies Centre at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, state of Osun, which is being donated by my wife, H.E. Erelu ’Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi.
“I have had to shelve equally important events that came to my notice after we had scheduled this event and made extensive preparations. It is thus at great cost that I am here in demonstration of my dedication to a worthy cause.
“Nothing can be more important than this (donation of the project). The CON can be posted to me by courier but nobody can post this to me”, he stated.