Leave Fayemi out of your issues with Ekiti people, APC tells Fayose

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(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has warned Governor Ayodele Fayose to stop maligning former Governor Kayode Fayemi over inability to pay workers' salaries.

It said blaming the former governor for purportedly plunging the state to debts was a wicked manipulation of the ignorance of the people to justify "an unconscionable and mindless treatment of Ekiti workers while Fayose enjoys lavish life."
Praising Ekiti workers for their steadfast resolve to continue their strike over Fayose's  way to deny them their entitlement, Olatunbosun explained that just like in 2003 during his first term, "Fayose is here again with his lies."
Fayose had during his last weekend media chat blamed Fayemi for taking loans that would last till 2036 for full repayment.
He said that deductions from Federal Allocation for debt payments had left the state with a peanut not enough to pay salary.
But reacting in a statement in Ado-Ekiti, Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, accused the governor of insincerity and employing ignorance of the people to deceive Ekiti workers over the financial status of the state.
He said the governor had at different times given several figures as loans taken by Fayemi to deceive the people in order to hide his plans for the misapplication and misappropriation of Ekiti money, noting that such was his conduct in 2003 before he was impeached in 2006 over alleged sundry financial crimes.
"Let us thank Governor Niyi Adebayo's Commissioner for Finance, Bayo Aina, who foiled Fayose's lie in 2003 when he (Aina) wrote to the House of Assembly of which I was a member, debunking Fayose's claim that it would take 15 years to pay back the loan taken by Adebayo, which he first put at N5billion and later increased to N8billion," Olatunbosiun explained.
He added that instead of alleged debt left by Adebayo, Fayose met surplus of N1.7b in 2003 but which he never explained to Ekiti people until the N1.3b poultry project fraud emerged over which he was impeached and was still facing criminal charges in court by EFCC.
"The Adewale Omirin-led House of Assembly approved for Fayose to take N2b Central Bank loan for artisans and small scale traders, but up till now, he has not given one naira to anybody.
"He deceived the workers that April federal allocation is N700m even though the Federal Ministry of Finance figure as published in the newspapers indicated that Ekiti collected N1.08b and you wonder what the governor did to the balance of N300m.
"He has so far collected about N20b loans which he would not disclose to Ekiti people. These include the N9.6b bailout cash and another N10b taken from another bank while he also denied collecting refunds on federal roads and misapplied N2b Ecological Fund cash which he denied collecting for a long time until our party applied for FOI Law to get the fact in the Fund's Office in Abuja.  
"He paid one month salary from N9.6b bailout and nobody knows what he did with the balance the same way that no one knows what he  does with the fresh N10b loan and the interest it generates in the secret account he keeps  the money after vowing several times never to borrow a naira to run his government, even as he continues to give inconsistent figures to workers as the state internally-generated revenue, including lying against the workers that they are part of revenue sharing after collection from Abuja.
"While Fayemi borrowed for development purposes, which can be seen in roads and other development structures across the state, Fayose keeps padding, spending Ekiti money on projects rehabilitation fraudulently over-priced and given to his friends and cronies while Ekiti workers suffer," he explained.  

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