Ekiti State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has accused the state governor, Ayodele Fayose of running a very corrupt government because he allegedly paid himself a sum of N750 million as arrears of the eight months of his first term administration.
The party also described Fayose’s allegation that the former governor Kayode Fayemi diverted N4.1 billion to run the party as a baseless allegation.
In a statement by APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, APC said “It is laughable that as much as N4 billion was diverted and or embezzled by the Fayemi administration and Fayose is just knowing eight months after assumption of office, pretending that a kangaroo verification exercise had revealed this.
“Fayemi had earlier offered his administration for probe when Fayose started a similar campaign of calumny to cover his tracks in financial mismanagement, but the governor had no courage for such exercise because there was nothing to probe.
“Fayose is at it again in his usual funny game to divert Ekiti people’s attention from his sharp practices in governance. This is an after thought that exposes his ignorance and confusion. If Fayose is sure of his facts, he should not waste time in taking his case to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).
“There is no deduction anywhere. It is not possible. Even though for the two years that the federal allocations to the state dwindled with as much as N500 million, Fayemi was still paying workers’ salaries with overdraft until Fayose as governor-elect wrote to banks to stop it, so how was any deduction and diversion possible under that situation?
“The biometric system was so transparent such that it did not allow ghost workers syndrome, but since the PDP is now saying its government had detected 1,000 ghost workers, we are interested in unmasking the ghosts, which we believe is the governor’s making and we demand that the names of these ghost workers be published.”
Meanwhile Fayose denied the allegation of paying himself N750 Million First Term Benefit.
During a State Broadcast, he said “I am Ayo Fayose, your governor who can never do that, since you have known me, you will observed that I have always been transparent and down to earth with you in all matters, please be assured that I am not in a hurry to get rich through the back door as suggested by my detractors.
“Let us even think of it whether it was logical for me to have been so selfish into paying such money into my private account, what sense does that make to a right thinking person when such money was almost enough to augment what we are looking for to pay the May salary to Ekiti workers.”
He assured the people of Ekiti that he will bring development to the state.
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