His Excellency, Governor Babatunde Fashola in less than one week has again vilified the election and the good people of Ekiti State. He has become an emergency psychologist doing dubious, bogus and biased psychological analysis of Ekiti electoral behavioral pattern.
In his previous interviews, Governor Fashola desperately and pathetically attempted to detract from the credibility of Governor Fayose’s victory by insinuating that it was a sheer impossibility for the Governor-elect to win the Ekiti State gubernatorial election with such landslide; defeating the incumbent Governor, his deputy, three senators and all their House of Assembly members in their various local governments.
However, in his latest piece titled “Ekiti Poll: My Take Away” published on the back pages of “Nigerian Tribune” and “Thisday Newspaper” of Monday, the 30th day of June, 2014,  Governor  Fashola seemed to be approbating after his earlier reprobation. Even though the Governor finally admitted defeat in that piece, he did not do so without throwing tantrums akin to an ill-mannered disgruntled child.
He chose rather to ascribe the electoral victory to what he described as; “stomachstructure” which according to him meant the overwhelming vote of the people of Ekiti State for their Governor-elect came as a result of Fayose’s [and his party’s]method of; ‘Do nothing, gather money, buy rice, stop at a few local pubs to show you are ordinary [maybe without shoes]and distribute money and rice to the “grassroots” and you are sure to get to Government House; and this is the plan for the whole of the South-west and the presidency’
Whilst we may excuse Governor Fashola’s obvious inability to comprehend/understand the concept of Popular Mandate and its workings being himself a product of a single man’s selection, we are nonetheless appalled by his newly acquired ability [or inability]at doing the hatchet job for his party on the Ekiti election.
Why would Governor Fashola in his various postulations and “logical human behavioral analysis” on Ekiti elections conveniently jettison the legacies left behind by the Governor -elect in his previous term in office? Why for instance will Governor Fashola not see that the people of Ekiti State chose to vote for the Governor that originated the Elders’ Welfare policy, which the incumbent Governor later adopted and paraded as his own initiative? Why will Governor Fashola not see that the people of Ekiti chose to vote overwhelmingly for a Governor who paid their salaries on the 22nd day of every month and never in arrears of salaries? Why will Governor Fashola fail to realize that the good people of Ekiti State chose to vote for that man who brought dualization of roads to Ado, the Ekiti State Capital; who built the Governor’s office currently in use by the incumbent, who cleared all outstanding indebtedness of his predecessor, retrieving Ekiti House and Ojuolobun title documents from the banks they were pledged to without ever borrowing a kobo, but rather left the sum of N10.4 Billion Naira in Ekiti State Government coffers even when his tenure was unexpectedly truncated. Why will Governor Fashola fail to reckon that Ekiti people voted for the man who delivered Ekiti State educational rating from its abysmally low 35th in Nigeria and 6th in the South-west and brought it to the 8th place in the country and 2nd place in the South-west? And this man Fayose achieved this feat not by castigation and molestation of teachers but by celebrating and providing them with the right tools and incentives for greater efficiency.
It is pertinent therefore to advise Governor Fashola and his cohort to stretch their oft-mouthed scholarly research on the outcome of Ekiti State poll to include the various past landmark projects of the Governor-elect; his style of delivery [i.e. the how, what and when to deliver]; and those leadership qualities which endeared him so much to his people. By so doing, we have no doubt Governor Fashola and his party will have a richer and more robust thesis to use as a template for future elections

Ekiti poll: Fashola should cease to sulk