Governor Ayodele Fayose has described the All Progressives
Congress (APC) as a party populated by shameless people, saying; “the
party display of shamelessness, especially in Ekiti State is
legendary.”
Fayose , who reacted to a statement by the APC that he lied
about the financial status of the state and
that the current allocation to Ekiti State was enough to pay workers’
salary, said; “In a normal clime, members of a party that ruled Ekiti
for four years, borrowing billions of naira to plant flowers that were
never seen, thereby plunging the State into debt would bury their
heads in shame.”
He said; “at some points in the administration of the
APC government of Dr Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti State received federal
allocation ranging from N9 billion to N6 billion, yet, Fayemi not only
left two months workers’ salaries and four months cooperatives and
union deductions unpaid, he took N25 billion bond with period
accumulated interest of N16 billion and also obtained N15,
831,613,425.62 commercial bank loan and did nothing with the fund.”
On the APC’s claim that Fayose’s failure to comply with the
Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) guidelines, including
paying counterpart fund, was responsible for banning the state from
accessing Federal intervention fund to run primary schools, he
said; “It is on record that about N830 million was released by the APC
government of Fayemi for SUBEB 2013 counterpart fund. However, the
fund was immediately withdrawn from the Access Bank account to which
it was paid, immediately fund was released by the UBEC, Abuja.
“The penalty Ekiti State SUBEB is paying today is the N830 million
counterpart fraud perpetrated by the APC government of Fayemi and I
challenge Olatunbosun to an open debate on this.”
On allocation received by the State in December, Fayose said; “After
over N900 million was deducted from the State allocation directly from
Abuja as loan repayment, what remained was a little above N1.3 billion
while the 16 Local Councils also got a little above N1.3 billion.
“About N2.6 billion is spent on salaries, subvention, pension and
gratuity monthly by the State government alone and one wonders how
sensible it is for the APC Spokesperson, Taiwo Olatunbosun to have
added State allocation with that of the local government as if State
government workers are the same as those of the Local Councils.”
Speaking further, Fayose said he would continue to be transparent in his handling of the State finances,
adding that the remnants of APC membership in Ekiti State should
rather channel their energies and resources towards rescuing the
APC-led federal government from cluelessness.
He said; “If not that they are extremely shameless, members of such a
party that mismanaged the finances of Ekiti State to the extent that
deductions will be made from the State allocation till 2036 should
naturally be on their bended kneels, pleading to Ekiti people for
forgiveness.”