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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has demanded explanation from Governor Ayo Fayose over his alleged involvement in the sale of a land to former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (rtd).

The party challenged Fayose to explain to Ekiti people how he got N650million to purchase the land allegedly transferred to Badeh, who is standing trial over alleged fraud in property acquisition in Abuja.

The opposition insisted that Fayose’s response becomes imperative, following his alleged refusal to declare his assets publicly.

A witness in Badeh’s trial, Mustapha Yerima, on Monday in a Federal High Court, Abuja, testified that Fayose was the owner of a N650million land that variously changed hands, landing finally in the laps of the former Chief of Defence Staff.

In a statement in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, the party’s Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said Ekiti people would want to know the details of the governor’s properties and how he acquired them in the face of several allegations of illegal fund transfers.

“Fayose has refused to tell Ekiti people the details of his assets after he was sworn in and of course we have been vindicated in our claim that the governor was involved in the arms purchase fraud through which billions of naira was ferried to Ekiti to rig his election.

“This is also a confirmation of alleged keeping of billions of Naira in alleged specially-designed safe made in South Africa where proceeds of frauds are kept in Afao-Ekiti.”

Olatunbosun also accused the governor of “callousness and insincerity” in the treatment of Ekiti people, particularly workers, who he owed five months salaries.

He urged the EFCC to beam its searchlight on Fayose’s activities and investigate the state’s finances, as the governor had allegedly received funds on behalf of the state that could not be traced to any account.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has urged Governor Ayodele Fayose to make judicious use of the bailout loans being facilitated by the Federal Government.

It said the call became imperative against the backdrop of his alleged misapplication of the balance of the N4billion  bond taken by former Governor Adeniyi Adebayo, which Fayose allegedly diverted in 2004 to other purposes different from the terms of the bond agreement.

The party’s Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in a statement that Ekiti people would want the governor to spend the loans for salary and other debts owed civil servants and former political office holders.

He said the disbursements and expenditure would be monitored to ensure compliance with the terms of borrowing, to curb diversion.

Olatunbosun said: “Our concern is premised on the alarm Governor Fayose has been raising on the status of the state’s debts, particularly his condemnation of the Federal Government’s bailout initiative, which he dismissed as not a bailout but a statutory allocation.

“It is gratifying that the Federal Government again made available N9.6billion to the state to offset salaries, allowances and other emoluments owed civil servants, pensioners and former political appointees, but we have our reservations on the governor’s new move to access another N10billion to be repaid in 10 years.

“Our reservations is premised on the evidence that the governor has no development blueprint he put before Ekiti people during campaigns, fuelling fears that the loan may end up as the 2005 bond cash, which Fayose allegedly misappropriated in his N1.3billion fraudulent poultry project that was never in his development blueprint.”

Stressing that the governor’s meeting with workers to seek their opinion on the propriety of taking the N9.6billion loan was diversionary and a fraud on the intelligence of the Ekiti workforce, the APC spokesman said the party could not fathom why a governor that had taken the loan, would pretend that workers’ input mattered in order to blindfold the workers into a collective responsibility fraud to extract workers’ solidarity.

He added that with the loan facilities, Fayose had no reason to owe any category of civil and public servants, including former political office holders, as the loans were approved for such purposes.

Olatunbosun said: “We urge workers to insist that the loans should be devoted to the payment of their salaries as approved by the lending authorities. Former political office holders should impress it on the governor to pay their severance allowances and other entitlements as approved in the mandate of the loan scheme.

“Knowing the kind of man the governor is in money matters, we hereby put the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) on notice to monitor disbursements and appropriation of the loan to ensure that the money does not end up in private pockets.”

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ado-Ekiti Local Government Area has appealed to Governor Ayo Fayose to adequately compensate traders to be displaced by the planned reconstruction of the largest market in the city, the Erekesan.

It urged the Fayose administration to implement the reconstruction with human face and not cause hardship for the market men and women.

The party also called on the governor to tell the people how he wants to finance the new market project to give them assurance that it would be completed in record time.

The Ado Ekiti APC Chairman, David Adigun, in a statement yesterday, said the immediate past administration of former Governor Kayode Fayemi had conceived a new market to be financed from the N25 billion bond.

Adigun explained that the intent of the Fayemi government was to make the market one of its legacy projects like Ikogosi Tourism resort, Ekiti Parapo Pavilion, Ayoba Government house, Moremi Olayinka Civic Centre and a host of others.

He said it is unfortunate that the people of Ado Ekiti are yet to know the circumstances that led to the fire that gutted the market in May “before various interest groups and stakeholders were coerced to accept and key into the project without the deserved consultation across board”.

Adigun said: “The circumstance and the mode at which the inferno at the market occurred still leaves sour taste in the psychic of many people.

“Tongues are wagging and people want to know the circumstance that led to it and if it is a mystery, it ought to have been unraveled by now especially when the unfortunate arson occurred while the state imposed citywide-curfew lasted.

“APC members want a special investigation constituted to get to the root of the unpleasant trending. “

 

 

 

EKITI State All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised Governor Ayo Fayose to spend wisely, the Federal Allocation of N8.5 billion received for the month of June.

The party described the receipt of the funds as “an opportunity for Fayose to hit the ground running for the state’s development”.

It urged Ekiti people to check for the details of the state’s allocations on government’s website www.fmf.gov.ng and www.oagf.gv.ng for true position on actual accruals to the state.

The APC contended that “it is no longer fashionable for the governor to continue to deceive Ekiti people about shortage of funds, as the June allocation of N8.5 billion distributed in July is enough to put the state on a firm financial footing”.

Giving the breakdown of the allocation in a statement in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, the party’s spokesman, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said Fayose had received N2.1 billion as bailout fund, N2.6 billion for statutory allocation and N598.8 million for Value Added Tax (VAT) – all totalling N5.4 billion for June.

He added that in the same month, the governor received N3.1 billion for the local governments, making N8.5 billion as the total cash the state got.

The APC spokesman explained that after all deductions, the state was still left with N7.9 billion.

Olatunbosun said this revelation by the Federal Ministry of Finance had vindicated APC’s position and claim debunking alleged lies by the governor that he did not collect the allocation for September 2014 in October. He added that Fayose had used the excuse as the reason for not paying September 2014 salary till date.

“We have said it many times that there is no justification for Fayose to continue to claim that the N2.1 billion bail-out fund is the normal allocation for the state, a reason for which he has been attacking President Muhammadu Buhari all this while.

“We wish to now reveal to Ekiti people that Fayose also got the normal state allocation of N2.6 billion in addition to the bailout fund of N2.1 billion earlier received.

“We had expected Fayose to tell Ekiti people that he had received such a colossal amount in June alone as he always boasts that he will not collect that kind of money without letting the people know about it,” he said.

The APC spokesman explained that the N8.5 billion cash was outside the N22 billion refund on federal projects, which the governor had not accounted for.

Olatunbosun added that the governor had also collected another N2 billion ecological fund without any proof of ecological project he could claim to have executed with the cash.

“While the governor accessed these funds, he has continued to sing ‘no fund song’ while he has not accounted for how he spent the N2 billion micro-credit loan the Adewale Omirin-led House of Assembly empowered the governor to access to help small-scale businesses for the poor Ekiti people,” he said.

The party regretted that even though the cash was colossal, the governor could not point to any project he had executed with it while he had also refused to pay workers their 2014 September salary after collecting September allocation, including failure to fulfill his financial statutory obligations to other segments of the society.

“The governor is owing five months arrears to pensioners, five months subventions to higher institutions and four months’ salary arrears to traditional rulers and we ask: what exactly is the governor doing with Ekiti money, except travelling to Dubai and South Africa immediately after receiving federal allocations?

“It is glaring that Fayose has no plan for the development of the state, neither does he have the interest of the workers and pensioners at heart. Despite the huge sums that accrued to the state in the last 10 months, and in spite of a six-month moratorium on debts payment, which saved the state N3 billion, Fayose has continued to complain of paucity of funds.

“We charge all stakeholders in Ekiti State to ask Fayose to account for all the monies he had collected since he assumed office and to tell Ekiti how he spent over N8.5 billion he collected in June, including the state allocation that excludes the Internally Generated Revenue, which runs to millions of naira.

“Fayose should know that a government of accountability is now at the Federal level and there is no more room for any financial abracadabra.

“We wish to remind Fayose that the end has come for impunity and cloudy handling of government appropriations. Ekiti people will not accept any shoddy deal again as the N1.3 billion poultry scam case is still pending with the EFCC in court,” Olatunbosun said.

EKITI State All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised Governor Ayodele Fayose not to disown the “thugs he imported into the state to foment trouble”.

The party noted that denouncing them and their activities was tantamount to the “use and dump antics of the governor”.

The party’s spokesman, Taiwo Olatunbosun, in a statement yesterday, noted that the thugs, known as “Fayose’s Boys”, had been terrorising members of the opposition and innocent citizens since the governor assumed office.

“For the governor to now try to distance himself from the hoodlums was a dishonest denunciation of the youth he raised for various acts of crimes and violence in the state,” Olatunbosun said.

The party, which spoke in reaction to Fayose’s threat to deal with hoodlums, said Ekiti people were not deceived by the governor’s threats.

It noted that his threat was a face-saving measure to distract attention from his complicity in promoting violence in the state.

The statement reads: “It is diversionary to now threaten the hoodlums with the police that the governor has been using to provide cover for the hoodlums to perpetrate their crimes and attacks on the opposition in the last nine months

“It is an irony that Fayose is denying association with his thugs in the wake of intra-party violence that rocked the PDP in the state in the last three days, leading to the shooting of the state part’s secretary, Dr. Tope Aluko.

“We as a party have written many petitions to the security agencies over the menace of thugs quartered in the Government House by Fayose, who were also provided with the police cover to attack members of the opposition in many towns in the state.”

The APC spokesman regretted that even though the security agencies were in possession of these petitions, they had not arrested a single thug for all the atrocities the “Fayose boys” had committed against the opposition in the state.

“Fayose’s thugs had attacked the APC secretariat  many times, destroying many vehicles and injuring many APC members in the process.

“Despite knowing their identities, the police have not arrested any of the hoodlums but have curiously been giving them cover on the instruction of Governor Fayose.

“The violence, which the PDP unleashed on the state three days ago, is a confirmation of our earlier claim that the PDP is a party that harbours thugs and a breeding ground for miscreants. The open brandishing of weapons by thugs loyal to the two PDP factions and the subsequent exchange of gunfire is an indication that the state is not safe for anyone,” he explained.

He added that the same thugs the governor was denying association with were the ones that attacked opposition members in Igbemo, Ijan, Aisegba, Ado-Ekiti, Ikere, Erijiyan and many other towns, including the weekend attack by PDP factions engaged in gun-battle at the party secretariat.

“We also wish to remind the police that Fayose’s special adviser and a commissioner who were once caught with guns, axes, petrol and acid were released on the orders of the governor without charging them to court and so there is no way Fayose can claim innocence in the gale of violence in the state.

“We call on the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, to act now before the state is plunged into anarchy with innocent citizens falling victims.

“This is the time for the police to also act on the many petitions our party had written on the nefarious activities of Fayose thugs. We particularly implore the police to investigate the role of Fayose’s ADC and some police officers who give cover and coordinate the thugs to attack innocent members of the opposition,” he said.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has described Governor Ayo Fayose as a hypocrite.

The APC, in a statement, by the media aide of the House of Assembly Speaker, Wole Olujobi, said: “We can now see the cowardly act of a hypocrite who has made impunity a religion in governance and is now afraid of alleged impunity by APC. He wants to do unto others what he would not want to be done unto him!

“A man who wants peace is calling the opposition “irritants”. What a way of seeking reconciliation! Whatever issue Fayose is having with the opposition will be resolved by the law. All this grand standing and rhetoric will not save him from facing the law.

“The governor’s press briefing is nothing but a reversal of hope for the resolution of Ekiti crisis. Some people have expressed worry over the quality of his advisers. But the truth is that Fayose has no adviser. In fact, he hates advisers and so he does not take advice.  He takes no one’s advice and those who know him well dare not advise him.

“Fayose has zero tolerance for other people’s opinion.  Like Fayose’s former leaders, Baba Ojo Falegan and Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua, once said Fayose believes he is the wisest man on earth.

“There is no suggestion being made today on the resolution of Ekiti crisis that had not been offered in the last few weeks but Fayose would not tolerate that.

“His press conference would convince all that he has a heart of steel and all those Ekiti elders who have been meeting trying to reconcile the two groups are just wasting their time.

“Fayose has agenda that is known only to himself and so whatever effort that is being made to resolve the crisis is just an exercise in futility, if such effort threatens his agenda. He is not known for compromise and there is nothing anybody can do about it.”