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Fayose's 2014 campaign, and the political language it popularised nationally, promised direct relief for the poor — empowerment for unemployed youths and widows, aid for the aged, food relief for the poorest, boreholes, and skill-acquisition and loan support for the rural poor — as a deliberate alternative to Fayemi's "material infrastructure" agenda.

"Stomach infrastructure" became the defining, and most widely reported, description of Fayose's governing philosophy after his June 2014 election win, and the administration did run food, empowerment and micro-grant activity along these lines. But the same term in office was marked by a prolonged workers' and pensioners' salary crisis (see below), which undercuts any claim that welfare needs were being met in a sustained way.

Fayose pledged Ekiti's first flyover, a 1.2km, ₦5.7bn project linking the Fajuyi and Ojumose areas of the state capital, to ease traffic congestion.

Construction was flagged off on 29 March 2016 with a 24-month completion target, and Ekiti's first-ever flyover bridge was commissioned on 25 May 2018 — before Fayose left office in October 2018 — by former President Goodluck Jonathan, who called it unique nationally.

A new international/cargo airport near Iworoko-Ekiti was pursued as a flagship, transformational infrastructure project of the administration.

The project was pushed with what The Nation described as "frenzy" from late 2015, but the state cleared roughly 4,000 hectares of farmland with bulldozers on 2 October 2015 before consulting or compensating the customary landowners across five villages, destroying crops and buildings; ten farmers reportedly died in the resulting standoff. A High Court later ruled for the farmers, upholding their land titles, ordering compensation and enjoining the developers from entering the land. Work was suspended in October 2015 pending compensation, and the airport was not completed or operational by the time Fayose left office in October 2018.