The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has
criticised Governor Ayodele Fayose over his recent
comment on the bailout fund released by
President Muhammadu Buhari to states, saying it
is ingratitude taken too far.
Fayose and Buhari
Fayose said the bailout fund out of which Ekiti
State benefited in billions of naira, is not a bailout
but an amount due to Ekiti State from the
federation account.
This is an irresponsible statement coming from a
governor over which his colleague governors,
labour unions and all well meaning Nigerians were
full of gratitude to the President for the bailout.
Fayose as usual, is up to one of his antics
whenever money is involved.
His statement that Ekiti wage bill is N2.6billion
has given him away as someone who wants to
shortchange Ekiti people again. For the avoidance
of doubt, the wage bill of Ekiti State workers is
N1.6 billion naira and if we include subventions to
higher institutions, pensions and political
appointees’ salaries which is N600 million naira,
everything amounts to N2.2 billion naira. We
wonder where Fayose got the figure of N2.6
billion, Olatunbosun stated.
”We have said it many times that Mr. Fayose is
paying some election contractors and he has not
denied this categorically. His latest inflation of
the wage bill of Ekiti State is to prepare the
minds of Ekiti workers that he would not use the
bailout fund to pay their backlog of salaries and
allowances even though he lies to the outside
world that he was not owing Ekiti workers.”
We are aware that Fayose is yet to pay Ekiti
workers September 2014 salary, 2014 leave
bonus, June salary, March to June co operative
deduction, core subject and rural allowance from
March to June while he has not released 4
months subventions to Ekiti State University. He
is also owing pensioners a backlog of allowances
as well as traditional rulers.
Fayose’s claim that the bailout fund is Ekiti State
is entitlement is very unfortunate as the fund is
not Ekiti State allocation from the federation
account but a special intervention fund over
which he was supposed to be grateful to the
President. Fayose’s mentor, former President
Jonathan did not give such bailout to any state in
Nigeria. This has revealed that Fayose has not
stopped his hate campaign against the President
even after electoral campaign is over. At any
given opportunity, Fayose has continued to
lambast and embarrass the President.
We also aware that Fayose is the coordinator of
operation bring the Buhari-led Federal
Government down where N400 million is
contributed monthly by each PDP state for the
devious project.
Fayose’s outbursts is ingratitude of the highest
order which does not represent the collective
opinion of Ekiti people who are always
appreciative of good deeds. President
Muhammadu Buhari should be praised for
directing that all monies should be paid into the
federation account from where the bailout money
came from. This is a result of his anti-corruption
drive.
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