‘I’ll enhance Ekiti okada riders’ status’

Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose, has assured the commercial motorcycle operators (otherwise known as okada riders) of freedom to operate without fear of being proscribed if he becomes the governor.

 Fayose, who stated this at Ire-Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area of the state during his ward- to-ward campaign tour urged the commercial motorcyle operators not to vote for a party which after forming government , would throw them into the labour market.

According to a press statement issued in Ado Ekiti by Fayose’s spokesman, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, the PDP candidate said APC has a reputation of using Okada operators to win election, only to proscribe their operations later, assuring that he would not proscribe okada operation, but provide enabling environment to make the work decent and reduce okada accidents to the bearest minimum.