Executive orders, gubernatorial directives, and major policy decisions issued during the 2014–2018 term — tracked from announcement through to real-world effect.
4
Total orders
1
Implemented
1
Partial
2
Reversed
Reversed
The directive
The Fayose administration discontinued Fayemi's ₦5,000-a-month stipend scheme for roughly 20,000 indigent elderly citizens shortly after taking office in 2014.
Real-world effect
Beneficiaries lost the stipend for the length of Fayose's term; the scheme was only revived, and expanded via a World Bank-backed grant, after Fayemi returned to office in October 2018.
Reversed
The directive
The administration introduced a mandatory per-term "education development levy" — ₦500 for primary and ₦1,000 for secondary pupils — on public-school students, later extended by ministry circular to private-school pupils as well.
Real-world effect
The extension to private schools drew a three-day strike by Ekiti's private-school proprietors' association in protest, who argued it amounted to unconstitutional multiple taxation on top of the roughly 12 other levies and taxes they already paid. The levy on public-school pupils remained in place until Fayemi's successor administration cancelled it by executive order in October 2018.
Implemented
The directive
Seven PDP lawmakers moved on the floor of the Ekiti State House of Assembly to impeach Speaker Adewale Omirin and his deputy, Adesegun Orisalade, on 20 November 2014.
Real-world effect
The removals consolidated Fayose's control over the Assembly. Nineteen APC lawmakers sued to challenge it, naming Fayose, the DSS and the police among the defendants, but a Federal High Court in Lagos struck out their suit in May 2015 for want of standing, since as impeached members they were held not to have the standing to challenge their own impeachment.
Partial
The directive
After bulldozers cleared roughly 4,000 hectares of farmland for the planned Iworoko airport without prior consultation or compensation on 2 October 2015, and following farmer protests and deaths, Fayose announced on 13 October 2015 that work would be suspended until December, with compensation to be paid and farmers given time to harvest standing crops.
Real-world effect
The suspension did not resolve the underlying dispute: affected farmers went to court, and a High Court subsequently upheld their land titles, ordered compensation and enjoined the developers from re-entering the land or intimidating residents.