For the teachers, the Chairman, Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Comrade Samuel Kayode Akosile, who scored the government of Fayemi high in the area of infrastructure, renovation and construction of good schools, described the state of NUT to be that of apathy, despondency, total disenchantment, relegation of teachers to the background in terms of welfare, and policy. He said that they were forced to go on indefinite strike pending the time the state government would pay two months’ salary it owes the teachers. “We should be adequately considered in respect of what are due to us: regular promotion, regular payment of salary and allowances, housing and car loans, proper recognition of the graduate teachers in primary schools and allowing them to rise to level 17 instead of level 14 they can’t rise above, provision of adequate instructional materials and better and lasting infrastructure in our schools, enhancement and enlargement of the position of tutor-general with all the peripheral of office, treating Association of Secondary School Teachers as an association not as a union, and provision of regular grant and imprest to schools. We want the government to consult us in the appointment of political officers into areas that affect teachers like teaching service commission, SUBEB, even commissioner for education. We want e-payment system to be totally overhauled so that those that are paying our salary will not be able to shortchange us again, equip the school laboratories and classroom in terms of infrastructure, proper monitoring of contracts awarded in schools and ensuring that allocations to the schools are released as stated in the documents,” he said.

The expectations of the local government workers, according to the President, Nigeria Union of Local Government, NULGE, Ekiti State, Comrade Olubunmi Ajimoko, include eradication of the disparity in the remuneration of health workers, implementation of CONMESS for their doctors, resolution of all pending issues relating to workers, being worker-friendly, ensuring that basic things are done for the workers, and ensuring that the local government staff are not treated inferior to the state workers.

Also, Comrade Aluko Ayodeji Ayorinde, chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ekiti State, who scored Fayemi’s administration very high on labour matters, demanded that the new administration meet the welfare of workers, ensure that whatever lapses of the past administration do not recur, ensure that there is good industrial relationship between the government and the workers, ensure that at the end of the tenure Ekiti State is left better than the way it was met, ensure that Fayose era becomes very good history to be read for workers of Ekiti State in times to come, and also that the new administration should correct some of the lapses of the past.

The expectation of students include the reduction of tuition fees, prompt payment of bursary, and automatic employment to the best graduating students in the state tertiary institutions. This was disclosed by a final year student of Banking and Finance, Ekiti State University, EKSU, Mr. Abulefon Femi Michael.

Various operators at the Erekesan Market, Ado-Ekiti, including Baba Alaje of Ado-Ekiti, Chief Odunayo Ale, Mrs. Alice Buraimo and her daughter Adefunke, who sell vegetable and raw foodstuff respectively, Medinatu Abdulkareem, Lola Ajayi who sells crayfish, Bosede Peter who sells cooked locust beans, and Damilola Owoeye who sells fish, demanded that the new government rebuild the market and make it ultra-modern with all facilities, empower the traders in whatever form including the provision of soft loan, and provide security in the market and the entire state.

Commercial motorcyclists popularly called Olokada, many of who are graduates of higher institutions, demanded that the new government should create dignifying jobs. Mr. Ajayi Michael, 57, from Iyin Ekiti, called on the government to create farm settlements across the state and allocate it to anyone that would want to practise farming. “Okada is not a good and dignified job. One cannot pass it to his children. If government can assist, I will leave okada business and go to farm,” he said. In the same direction, Kayode Ajisafe, an HND graduate of Environmental Health from College of Health Science Technology, Ijero-Ekiti, Oladapo Opeyemi, a graduate of Accounting from College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, and an Ijan Ekiti born Busayo Fasuba holding B. Business Administration graduate of EKSU, sought for proper employment through agriculture, adding: “Okada business is our last option.”