Stop wasting Ekiti money on frivolous adverts, group tells Fayose

(Nigeria) Ekiti Youth Vanguard, a social-political group in Ekiti State, the has criticised Governor Ayodele Fayose over the way he has been wasting the state's resources on frivolous advertisements to criticise President Muhammadu Buhari and allegedly create  doomsday predictions to inflict fears in the minds of Nigeria.

A statement by the Coordinator of the group, Charles Fakunle, frowned at the manner Fayose spent the state money on issues that added no value to their lives, saying the governor was daily embarrassing decent indigenes of the state over his distasteful public conduct.

"This is a governor who toured the 16 local governments of the state lying to workers that there is no money and blaming Buhari for this after he has refused to pay them from the bailout he received from the same President he abuses.

"We hope Ekiti workers will have the courage to ask the governor what he has done with the over N9 billion bailout fund he received from the Federal government for the payment of their outstanding salaries and allowances. They should also ask him of what benefit to them is the abusive advertorials he regularly sponsored in the dailies to abuse the President.

"Fayose recently sponsored a ridiculous advertorial prophesying doom for Nigerians. We want to let Fayose know that the country will make progress under President Buhari next year while his doomsday prediction will only be experienced by him because he made the false prediction as a result of his sins."

Fakunle said the governor was the greatest con artist that ever lived, noting that he was deliberately getting himself involved in stunts to get the sympathy of Nigerians "when he faces his comeuppance but he has missed it.

"He has set a record in Nigeria as the first governor to start a hate campaign against an opponent. This he did in March 2008 when he advertised that Gen. Buhari would die in office and therefore urged voters not vote for him.

"He followed this up by several advertorials even after the election, wasting millions of state resources, and also became the first governor in Nigeria to abuse a sitting President and has refused to attend National Economic Council meetings and other national functions," he said.

Fakunle accused the governor of increasing his personal security vote to N300m monthly after deceiving workers that the state was broke while he just acquired a white state-of -the -art Range Rover in addition to the one he acquired at N43 million a little over a year ago.

"Yet, this is a governor who accused his colleagues of extravagant spending and a governor who lies to workers that the state has no money empowered his own children abroad where they live like kings riding exotic cars costing between N35 and N40 million," he said.

He urged Ekiti workers to wake up from their slumber and take Fayose to task about the finances of the state and stop listening to his tales that had "no head or tale. 

"Fayose has no reason to owe Ekiti workers after collecting the over N9 billion bailout fund meant to pay all arrears of salaries, pensions and allowances of former political office holders. Fayose is yet to account for the fund which he is alleged to have misappropriated as the categories of workers who were supposed to have been paid with the fund have  not been paid," he said.