(NIGERIA) Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has challenged his predecessor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to declare what he left in the treasury after his four year tenure ended on October 16, 2014.
He was reacting to comments made by Fayemi on Ondo State-based radio station, ADABA 88.9 FM, on Friday.
Fayemi had refuted Fayose’s claim that he (Fayose) left N10. 4 billion in the government coffers shortly after he was impeached from office in October 2006.
He disclosed that available records showed that Fayose left N3.5 billion and a lot of contractor obligations behind after his dramatic ouster from power in 2006.
Fayemi also revealed that actual cost of the new Government House otherwise known as the Ayoba Villa was N2.1 billion, adding that it was lower than other newly-constructed Government Houses in other states.
But Fayose, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said since Fayemi had admitted that Fayose left N3.5 billion in the State treasury when he left office in 2006 and not N10.4 billion as claimed by Fayose, he should also be honest enough to tell the whole world how much he left in the treasury.
Olayinka said, “It is funny that Fayemi is embarking on campaign six months after he was defeated in the entire 16 local councils in the State, including his own local council.
“In as much as we do not want to join issues with Fayemi, because we know that he is still in psychological pain and trauma, having lost the opportunity of occupying the aristocratic N3.3 billion Oke Ayoba Government House that he used borrowed fund to build, we must tell him that he should desist from his life of one day, one lie, because Ekiti people can no longer be deceived by his tales.
“It is funny that Fayemi lied to Ekiti people before he assumed office; claiming to be friend of President Barrack Obama, lied for four years as governor and he is still lying, six months after Ekiti people chased him out of office with their votes.”
Olayinka said Fayemi’s claim that he had paid all contractors, including the one handling Ado-Iworoko-Ifaki road was illogical.
“If Fayemi had paid the contractor handling Ado-Iworoko-Ifaki road as he claimed, why was the troubled spot in front of the State Hospital not fixed? And why didn’t Fayemi himself arrest the contractor for refusing to move to site?
“It is on record that apart from debt of over N86 billion, with which Fayemi mortgaged Ekiti State till year 2020, August and September salaries of workers were left unpaid, four months deductions for workers Cooperative Societies and Union Dues were not remitted while pension and gratuity were not paid.”
Olayinka restated that as at the time Fayemi was leaving, Ekiti State Government was indebted to the tune of N86 billion.
He concluded that Fayose will not be distracted by the ranting of Fayemi and his party.
(REPORT FROM THE PUNCH)
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