Governor Ayodele Fayose\u00a0 has described the All Progressives<\/p>\n
Congress (APC) as a party populated by shameless people, saying; \u201cthe
\nparty display of shamelessness, especially in Ekiti State is
\nlegendary.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fayose , who reacted to a statement by the APC that he lied
\nabout the financial status of the state and
\nthat the current allocation to Ekiti State was enough to pay workers’
\nsalary, said; \u201cIn a normal clime, members of a party that ruled Ekiti
\nfor four years, borrowing billions of naira to plant flowers that were
\nnever seen, thereby plunging the State into debt would bury their
\nheads in shame.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u00a0 said; \u201cat some points in the administration of the
\nAPC government of Dr Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti State received federal
\nallocation ranging from N9 billion to N6 billion, yet, Fayemi not only
\nleft two months workers\u2019 salaries and four months cooperatives and
\nunion deductions unpaid, he took N25 billion bond with period
\naccumulated interest of N16 billion and also obtained N15,
\n831,613,425.62 commercial bank loan and did nothing with the fund.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the APC\u2019s claim that Fayose\u2019s failure to comply with the
\nUniversal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) guidelines, including
\npaying counterpart fund, was responsible for banning the state from
\naccessing Federal intervention fund to run primary schools, he
\nsaid; \u201cIt is on record that about N830 million was released by the APC
\ngovernment of Fayemi for SUBEB 2013 counterpart fund. However, the
\nfund was immediately withdrawn from the Access Bank account to which
\nit was paid, immediately fund was released by the UBEC, Abuja.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe penalty Ekiti State SUBEB is paying today is the N830 million
\ncounterpart fraud perpetrated by the APC government of Fayemi and I
\nchallenge Olatunbosun to an open debate on this.\u201d<\/p>\n
On allocation received by the State in December, Fayose said; \u201cAfter
\nover N900 million was deducted from the State allocation directly from
\nAbuja as loan repayment, what remained was a little above N1.3 billion
\nwhile the 16 Local Councils also got a little above N1.3 billion.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout N2.6 billion is spent on salaries, subvention, pension and
\ngratuity monthly by the State government alone and one wonders how
\nsensible it is for the APC Spokesperson, Taiwo Olatunbosun to have
\nadded State allocation with that of the local government as if State
\ngovernment workers are the same as those of the Local Councils.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking further,\u00a0 Fayose said he would continue to be transparent in his handling of the State finances,
\nadding that the remnants of APC membership in Ekiti State should
\nrather channel their energies and resources towards rescuing the
\nAPC-led federal government from cluelessness.<\/p>\n
He said; \u201cIf not that they are extremely shameless, members of such a
\nparty that mismanaged the finances of Ekiti State to the extent that
\ndeductions will be made from the State allocation till 2036 should
\nnaturally be on their bended kneels, pleading to Ekiti people for
\nforgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Governor Ayodele Fayose\u00a0 has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a party populated by shameless people, saying; \u201cthe party display of shamelessness, especially in Ekiti State is legendary.\u201d Fayose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n