Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji has said he does not want gifts, party or newspaper adverts in commemoration of his 56th birthday billed for December 21.
According to a statement on Friday by his special adviser on media Yinka Oyebode, the governor said anyone willing to celebrate with him should make cash or material donations to the less privileged children in the state.
Oyebanji requested that gifts and cash be sent to the three Government Special Schools in the three senatorial districts of the state vis: Government Special School for the Deaf, Ikoro-Ekiti; Government Special School for the Blind, Ikere-Ekiti; and Government Special School for the Mentally and Physically Challenged, Ido-Ekiti, as well as the State Relief and Rehabilitation Centre for the Mentally Challenged in Ado-Ekiti.
Oyebanji said financial and material gifts sent to these schools by his friends and well-wishers would be of greater value and a better appreciated birthday celebration for him, adding that the country is at a point where citizens should make deliberate efforts at reaching out to the less privileged in the society.
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The governor said he was happy at the number of family members, friends and associates who presented gifts to the three special schools during his birthday last year, and the attendant joy the gestures brought to the faces of the students.
Oyebanji said he became happier when he got reports on how each of the schools utilised the financial and material gifts they got from him and his friends to enhance the welfare and well-being of the students and to upgrade some facilities within the schools.
The governor said he would be happy if his friends and well-wishers would grant his wishes this year again.
