The Nation Newspaper

Tag: Fayose

  • APC tackles Fayose over alleged Dubai property

    APC tackles Fayose over alleged Dubai property

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has described the denial of the state governor, Ayodele Fayose, that he owns choice property in Dubai, as an afterthought.

     The party said the alleged listing of Fayose as one of the Nigerian property owners in Dubai has confirmed its earlier alarm that the governor has been using Ekiti funds to purchase property in the Middle East and other parts of the world.

     In a statement signed by the Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the APC, yesterday  said “Fayose’s denial on state media that he has no property in Dubai was an afterthought because we will rather believe in the official statement of the government of UAE listing him as a property owner than to believe Fayose who we all know is a pathological liar.

     “Only last December, we raised the alarm that Fayose for the umpteenth time again travelled to Dubai with about N250 million Ekiti money when he fraudulently collected estacode for 10 aides who never travelled with him.

    Olatunbosun added: “We are equally aware of the governor’s properties bought through cronies and fronts in Ibadan, Ghana, South Africa and America, which shall soon be exposed to the Ekiti public who are daily being denied government’s services while their governor lives in opulence in Nigeria and overseas.

     “This is apart from his monthly commitment to his election sponsors who cream off millions of naira from Ekiti treasury in the name of election rigging. We call on the EFCC and other relevant agencies of government to follow the lead provided by the government of the UAE and investigate Governor Fayose with a view to knowing all his properties in Dubai, which are obviously the proceeds from his misappropriation of Ekiti State funds.”

     Reacting to the allegation, Fayose described the APC’s claim as propaganda and falsehood aimed at denting his image.

     Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said: “It was painful that the people who seized power in Nigeria through falsehood and propaganda were still lying eight months after assuming office.I’m not among those lily livered  Nigerians that will deny their assets anywhere.

     “If they trace any house to me in Dubai, the Federal Government should make  public all the details including pictures, location and title documents. The government should also confiscate such property and I am ready to waive my immunity to be prosecuted.”

  • Protest in Ekiti over Fayose’s airport project

    Protest in Ekiti over Fayose’s airport project

    Land owners and farmers displaced by the airport project in Ekiti State yesterday protested against what they called “illegal acquisition of their farmlands and unlawful destruction of economic trees and crops”.

    They claimed that 10 farmers, including three women, have died of shock from what they called “huge economic loss”, resulting from the destruction of their farms.

    The farmers, from Igbemo, Igbogun, Aso, Iwajo and Ijan spanning three local governments -Ado, Gbonyin and Irepodun/Ifelodun-,  urged Governor Ayo Fayose to stop work on the project because of the suit they had filed in court.

    They described the acquisition of their land as “fraudulent, wicked, callous and illegal”, alleging that government surveyors and other officials visit their land occasionally to steal their produce, including cocoa, cocoyam, yam and banana.

    The placard-carrying protesters claimed that they did not receive any valid notice before government bulldozers moved in to destroy their farms.

    The farmers said they don’t need any compensation but restoration of their land.

    Some of their placards read: “Gov Fayose, Please Relocate Your Airport to Government Forest”; “We All Say No To Illegal Airport Project”; “Please Leave Us Alone, Don’t Damage Our Life”; “This Land Is The Major Cocoa Plantation, Please No Trespass”; “Igbogun Cries Over Illegal Destruction of Our Property” and “Iwajo, Aso Say No To Illegal Airport”.

    They urged the Federal Government through the Ministry of Agriculture to save them from being thrown into the labour market.

    Their leader, Ojo Awe, said: “We are here to protest the bulldozing of our farms without any prior legal notice and we are here to invite the Federal Government to help us talk to Fayose to leave our farms alone.

    “We have not received any compensation as being claimed by the government, nothing of such happened.

    “This step is illegal although they may say the land belongs to them but if you want to take over my land you must tell me because my ancestors owned the land before government came.

    “The other area where government also erred was when we heard the rumour that the land might be acquired, we went to court and court papers were duly served.

    “When the process was going on, government invited the monarchs of the affected communities and served them papers, indicating that the land had been taken over, despite the pending court action. This is illegal and unacceptable.

    “This government wants to defraud us. Nobody was contacted before our land was bulldozed. The government in Ekiti does not respect the rule of law and when officials come to our farms, they steal our cocoa, cocoyam, yam and banana.

    “The effect of their action on our land cannot be quantified because since they destroyed our land and crops, we have not made anything and 10 persons have died of shock, including three women.”

    But Commissioner for Information Lanre Ogunsuyi maintained that the land belongs to the government.

    He urged the farmers to channel their grievances to the right quarters rather than protesting.

    Ogunsuyi said: “The project was conceived a long time ago. That land belongs to the government. Some people are just willing to clog the wheel of progress, but we would ensure the project is a success.

    “The aggrieved people have means of avenues of channeling their grievances. We don’t have to hold meeting and turn anyone into a tin god in the process. If anybody wants to speak with the government, there are 14 ministries they can go to.

    “We have a tradition of paying compensation and we would do that. But there is no way government would surrender its power to some people. The land belongs to government.”

  • Fayose’s assassination alarm a gimmick, says APC

    Fayose’s assassination alarm a gimmick, says APC

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has described the alarm raised by the House of Assembly on the Military Panel report as “a stunt by Governor Ayo Fayose to escape justice”.

    The party also described the Assembly’s emergency sitting on Tuesday as an old gimmick by the governor to execute a predetermined plan.

    The lawmakers condemned the report of the Military Panel that investigated the conduct of soldiers during the June 21, 2014 governorship election.

    They alleged that they had uncovered a plot by the Federal Government to assassinate Fayose, if moves to remove him from power fail.

    The lawmakers said President Muhammadu Buhari should be held responsible if anything sinister happens to the governor.

    But in a statement yesterday by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the APC urged Nigerians not to be misled by Fayose’s subterfuge.

    Olatunbosun called on the Department of State Services (DSS), the police and the National Security Adviser (NSA) to put Fayose and his men under surveillance.

     The party spokesman maintained that Fayose should be held responsible for any case of assassination, kidnapping, arson or any form of attack on prominent opposition figures in the state henceforth.

    “Just last year during the House of Assembly crisis, his media aide raised an alarm that APC members were planning to invade the Assembly and burn it down while in actual fact, it was Fayose who imported thugs from Ibadan in 12 vehicles to attack the Assembly to prevent the 19 APC lawmakers from sitting.

    “Last week, Fayose drew attention to himself claiming that two men purportedly from the DSS came to him with a fake report of the army panel probing Ekitigate and ordered their arrest.

    “Those who know Fayose well knows that he clothed the men and orchestrated the whole scenario to draw public sympathy. Where are the arrested men now and why is Fayose not interested in their prosecution? Creating make- believe scene is one of the governor’s old tricks but this is outdated as Ekiti people are wiser.

    “We are aware that Fayose desperately needs international support to get away with his crimes.

    “This cheap blackmail has failed because the international community has since retraced its steps after listening to Fayose and his gang planning the subversion of the constitution,” he said.

  • Panel report: Ekiti lawmakers allege plot to ‘assassinate’ Fayose

    Panel report: Ekiti lawmakers allege plot to ‘assassinate’ Fayose

    •Pass ‘double confidence vote’ in governor

    Ekiti State House of Assembly lawmakers have alleged a plot by the Federal Government to assassinate Governor Ayo Fayose, if moves to remove him from office fail.

    The lawmakers at yesterday’s plenary alleged that they had uncovered a plot to use the report of an Army Board of Inquiry that investigated the conduct of soldiers in the June 21, 2014 governorship poll to sack Fayose from office.

    Led by Speaker Kola Oluwawole, the 26 lawmakers, who are all members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being a dictator and attempting to muzzle the opposition.

    They claimed that the alleged plot to unseat Fayose was to silence the voice of “the leader of opposition” and cause chaos, confusion in the Fountain of Knowledge.

    The lawmakers said Ekiti people would resist any attempt to tamper with the mandate given to Fayose.

    Legislators passed what they called “a double vote of confidence” in Fayose and declared their loyalty to him.

    Members who took turns to condemn the alleged plot against Fayose included Deputy Speaker Segun Adewumi (Ekiti West 1); Ekundayo Akinleye (Ijero); Samuel Omotoso (Oye 1); Dele Fajemilehin (Gbonyin); Gboyega Aribisogan (Ikole 1); Sina Animasaun (Ekiti West 2); Mrs. Cecilia Dada (Ilejemeje); Sunday Akinniyi (Ikere 2) and Badejo Anifowose (Moba 2).

    Oluwawole and Aribisogan claimed that the APC government at the centre would use assassination as the last resort if other options to remove Fayose fail.

    Oluwawole said: “Nothing negative should happen to Fayose because they may resort to the use of other means, including assassination.

    “Our human rights activists have suddenly gone under the table; it’s a bad signal to our democratic process.

    Aribisogan said: “Fayose has become a thorn in their flesh and they want to use frivolous and unwarranted Military Panel report to muzzle him and any attempt to harass and embarrass him will be resisted.

    “We have heard from the grapevine that if all other efforts fail, they will attempt to assassinate the governor.”

    House Leader Tunji Akinyele (Oye 2) moved the motion for the adoption of an eight-point resolution condemning the report of the Military Panel chaired by Major General Adeniyi Oyebade.

    The motion was seconded by Abiola Jeje (Ido/Osi 2).

  • Save Ekiti pensioners from death, APC tells Fayose

    Save Ekiti pensioners from death, APC tells Fayose

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has called on Governor Ayo Fayose to stop his anti-people policies  to prevent life-threatening consequences.

    The party added that the governor’s failure to pay pensioners had resulted in  death of some of them, saying that it is  wicked to deliberately punish pensioners, who served the state meritoriously.

    Publicity Secretary Taiwo Olatunbosun, in a statement yesterday said the appeal followed the death of the State Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), Pa Rufus Kayode Ogedengbe, who died of minor ailment because he could not afford simple medicare.

    “Ekiti people can no longer tolerate this deliberate callousness that results in the death of those who paid with their sweat to productively contribute to the development of Ekiti State.

    “Fayose releases N5 million  monthly to his media aide, Lere Olayinka, to abuse  President Muhammadu Buhari on social media.

    “The governor is always cajoling  pensioners, telling them  there is no money, he has increased his security vote to N300 million while his sons studying abroad drive multi-million naira vehicles.”

    Olatunbosun said it is heartless for the governor to deny pensioners their entitlements over purported shortage of funds while buying up pages of newspapers to abuse the President for self-serving motives.

    APC spokesman also berated the governor for refusing to pay workers  their entitlements.

    “Private business owners are facing unbearable tax burden while petty traders have been sent packing from the trading posts and the few ones still in operation are being pursued by Fayose’s agents for obnoxious taxes,” he said.

    Asking the governor to learn from former Governor Kayode Fayemi, who paid  pensioners regularly during his tenure, Olatunbosun said: “We have asked the governor many times what he has done with the bailout fund from which he is supposed to pay the backlog of arrears of pensioners and the severance allowances of former political office holders but he has refused to render any account; instead, he has been going round local governments deceiving the workers about the true financial position of the state.”

  • Two remanded in prison for trying ‘to dupe’ Fayose

    Two persons – Benedict Odiga (38) and Abdulsalam Hassan (30) were on Monday arraigned before an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court over their attempt to dupe Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose.

    The duo were arrested on Sunday at Fayose’s residence in his hometown, Afao Ekiti , for allegedly trying to defraud the  governor  under the pretext of revealing to him a classified document on the military tribunal probing the 2014 governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun States.

    The suspected fraudsters were arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and forgery which was preferred against them by the police.

    The presiding Chief Magistrate,  Idowu Ayenimo , ordered that the accused persons be remanded in Ado Ekiti prison.

    Before their arraignment, Odiga and Hassan were paraded at the state police command headquarters by the state Commissioner of Police, Etop James.

    James disclosed that a letterhead with the inscription “Nigerian Army Force” and a 57-page document purportedly from the Office of Special Adviser, Ethics and Values, were obtained with the intent to defraud Fayose.

     

  • Two arrested for attempt to defraud Fayose

    Two arrested for attempt to defraud Fayose

    •Police: we’re investigating

    The Ekiti State government has arrested two persons who claimed to be working in the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) with the intent of defrauding Governor Ayo Fayose.

    The government alleged that an identity card marked “GMB Security” was found on one of the suspects.

    A statement yesterday by the Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said the duo stormed Fayose’s Afao-Ekiti home, claiming that they had a copy of the preliminary report of the military panel, which investigated the role of soldiers in elections held in Ekiti, Osun, Rivers and Akwa Ibom.

    The names of the suspects, according to the statement, are Benedict Ola Idega and Abdulsalami Leader H, who  “claimed” they could manipulate the final report of the panel with Fayose’s cooperation.

    The duo added that “the report was aimed at targeting some top Army officers who the Federal Government wants to punish.

    The statement said: “Governor Fayose, who was suspicious of the men’s  intentions, had informed the  Commissioner of Police and Director of the Department of State Security.

    “The two men, in a meeting with the governor, presented what they called a photocopy of page three of the preliminary report to show that they meant business.

    The purported copy bore the Army’s logo.

    “The governor gave the impression that he was satisfied with all that they said and asked them to wait  for him.

    “He called in the police and DSS officials, who arrested the two men.

    “The identity card found on Abdulsalami Leader H bore “GMB SECURITY” and it was stated at the back that he (Abdulsalami) is the security of Gen. Mohammadu Buhari with Number 34, Lobitto Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja as issuer’s address and 088133636478 and 08057010255 as phone numbers.

    “Benedict Ola Idega was with a Federal Capital Development Authority identity card.

    “The two men, who lodged at a popular hotel on Bank Road, Ado-Ekiti, have been detained at the Police Headquarters, Ado Ekiti alongside another suspected accomplice, who was found in their hotel room.

    Olayinka said even though it had been established that they were impersonators, their real intention was yet to be ascertained.

    He said:  “We don’t want to pre-empt the security agents who are investigating the incident. But it is certain that they have ulterior motives.

    “We are also not ruling out the possibility of an attempt to set up the governor, defraud or even harm him.”

    Police spokesman Alberto Adeyemi said: “Investigation is ongoing to establish who they are and what their intentions are. That is what we can say on the matter for now.”

  • Fayose: Separating populism from governance

    One man that hardly shies away from the full glare of the camera and general media attention is Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose. While it appears that the governor and his associates cum supporters enjoy this media frenzy, such hype leaves very bad taste in the mouth of many observers who think his administration should get busy with governance of the state than continue to be a social disgrace as the Ekiti Kete Youth Forum recently averred. Only few days to the end of 2015, Fayose rolled out 20 predictions likely to beset Nigerians under President Muhammadu Buhari in 2016. Although some of these points are representation of Nigeria’s current realities, except Fayose lays claim to prophetic powers, these gloomy predictions are nothing more than figment of the governor’s imagination, a mere conjecture and poor analysis of the current administration to deliver in 2016. It shouldbe noted, however, that should the Buhari administration fail, no Nigerian state, perhaps except Lagos, would be spared the danger.

    While Ekiti is not insulated from the impending disaster, how well the governor delivers to Ekiti people in terms of policy thinking and governance in the midst of this storm is worthy of interrogation. Without much doubt, Fayose appears very popular in Ekiti. However, there seems to be more populism than service and governance in the state. Governance is more than being seen or heard on the street or challenging the president and his person or programmes. Among the strings of Fayose’s public stunts include being reported as buying roasted goat meat, a Nigerian delicacy popularly called asun, while inspecting a market project in Ado Ekiti. This came after he was pictured eating in a local ‘mama put’, drinking at joints and riding motorcycles with okada-riders in the state. Fayose was also pictured discussing with an old woman, whose personal agonies, like that of many Ekiti citizens, increased after she was unable to reach the governor on the well-circulated phone number Fayose provided to Ekiti residents for a one-on-one conversation. In another well circulated post, Fayose was seen apprehending late-comers to Ekiti State civil service. Late-comers were seen in the pictures on a long queue prostrating and kneeling in their ties, suits and office clothes pleading with the governor to pardon them for coming late to work. Fayose had, according to reports, visited the civil service unannounced that Monday morning and found these state servants wanting. Fayose demonstrates his firm grip over the state House of Assembly when he read and approved the state budget on the floor of the parliament in a youtube video.

    Fayose’s vents and somehow condescending attacks on the President is another issue. Starting even before Buhari was elected President, Fayose literally pronounced the President incapable. He predicted his death in office, predicating this on Buhari’s age and the sad and unfortunate deaths of Umaru Yar’Adua, Sani Abacha and Murtala Mohammed; deaths which occurred under very different circumstances. Fayose has since Buhari’s inauguration stopped at nothing at pointing accusing fingers at the presidency for everything that goes wrong with Nigeria, its economy or even the opposition political party, including the recently lost tribunal cases by Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. In fact, it heightened when Fayose asked the President to resign and handover to the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Most of these attacks, directed at President Buhari and the ruling All Progressives’ Congress, have been expressed to the chagrin of many Nigerians, including some members of his own People’s Democratic Party. Fayose’s attempts to malign Buhari may be a ploy, a disguise to raise highbrow when corruption allegations are in the future levelled against Fayose about his past or present, or when the alleged electoral flaws surrounding his elections are brought up for trial; then he would claim he is being victimised.

    Although Fayose might have marginally benefited from populism in Ekiti’s political arena, his victory at the polls is a function of protests against Dr Kayode Fayemi’s administration and programmes rather than on the merit of Fayose’s convincing policy programmes, governance tenacity and claim to acceptance from these publicity stunts. This is without any contradiction that Fayose is notorious in Ekiti. In the wake of the allegation of manipulation by the army, a former Defence Minister and another gubernatorial candidate in the South-west, it became even more questionable that Fayose won the election fair and square. Nevertheless, howbeit shallow these theatrics were, Nigerian politicians attempted to replicate, perhaps poorly, these publicity stunts during the 2015 general elections. It was at this time that some governorship candidates, unmindful of the messages passed to the populace, were seen for instance holding and simultaneously chewing two large combs of corn while those around them watched and cheered, gleefully. Others were caught using very unimaginable ways to seek for votes. This tactic failed however to bring victory to all of these wannabe grassroots politicians. The point therefore is that these actions by Fayose and his ilk seem to blur the line between the desire to be genuinely closer to the people and desperate acts by politicians to remain seen, even if seeing is without service; a form of motion without movement. And since these politicians are surrounded by sycophants, it may never be seen that the truth about service and governance will ever be told to them.

    It is neither abnormal nor wrong to relate with people within one’s constituency as Fayose has repeatedly attempted to do. After all, President Obama and his family recently served a group of Americans at an evening event at the White House in what reminisces servant leadership. What is, however, disturbing is the deliberateness with which showmanship take precedence over humility and commitment to service. Acts of service should be deliberately deployed to meet and know, interrogate, analyse and understand the people and articulate their needs and use this in drawing people-friendly short, medium and long term programmes. This is not the case with Fayose’s populism where people’s needs are left unmet and the security of the people, especially the governor’s critics are daily compromised in the hands of the state officials. This comes on the back of the fact that projects executed under Fayose’s first term in office are now shadows of themselves. Fayose’s political tactics is a sharp reminder that many politicians merely offer cosmetic projects that not only fail to stand the test of time, but that they or their family hardly rely on to get by even when they pretend to benefit from similar gestures. The people on the other hand have no choice but to rely on state constructed roads, school, water etc. These poorly executed projects are brazenly displayed on social media, bill-boards, newspapers, and played on radio and television jingles as governance and service to the people.

    An important point to make is the fact that Fayose is one of the few vocal members of the opposition political party. This is a welcome development and vital for Nigeria’s democracy. However, if being incumbent and the delivery of service is learnt, it is a more important task to learn how to be an effective opposition, one whose call goes beyond doublespeak, partisanship and horse-trading to establishing good governance framework and transformational leadership. It will be to the governor’s credit to address insecurity within the state, decay in educational system, offer policy perspectives and programmes for moving not just the state but the entire nation forward rather than grovel in the display of ordinariness, unconsciously mocking many Ekiti indigenes that expect more from their governor. Ekiti is the fountain of knowledge and land of honour and cannot afford to allow Fayose’s presence on social media to be for the wrong reasons rather to show off as a dramatist qualified for a befitting role in Nigeria’s celebrated Nollywood. Governance is beyond populism, and the cheer and jeer of the media. It is about securing the people and their future by laying solid foundation for them and making fundamental and overall transformation in their lives. Anything short of this spells doom for the people and their future than the immediate difficulties that the current national economic crisis bestows on the Nigerian masses.

     

    • Fasakin writes from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

     

  • APC: Fayose benefited from arms cash

    APC: Fayose benefited from arms cash

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has challenged Governor Ayo Fayose to say how much he got from the N1.4 billion allegedly collected from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) by a former minister for the June 21, 2014 governorship poll.

    The APC claimed that part of the slush funds was used to rig the election in Fayose’s favour.

    In a statement yesterday by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party said: “We are aware that Fayose at that time acquired a N750 million building in a choice area of Abuja from the proceeds of this fund.

    “We are equally aware that Fayose submitted a bill of N30 billion to former President Goodluck Jonathan as the amount required to unseat former Governor Kayode Fayemi.

    “A certain amount was approved for the project out of which soldiers, who were used to rig the election, were paid as well as electoral officials who released the soft copies of sensitive materials to Fayose.

    “It was when a newspaper reported that N1.4billion was traced to a former minister to rig Ekiti and Osun elections, it was at the same time the said ex-minister ‘sneaked’ out of the country for ‘further education.’ Governor Fayose also travelled out about the same time.

    “We are demanding that the governor should tell Ekiti people how much he received from the Armsgate money and the property he acquired with the fund.

     We also call on the EFCC to beam its searchlight on Fayose to know how much is traceable to him and the governor of a  neighbouring state who coordinated the disbursements of the funds.”

    The APC spokesman said the party was aware that the governor had become paranoid and jittery since the newspaper reported the amount traced to the former minister.

    He added that all those who shared the arms money should be investigated and prosecuted.

    Fayose has called on the international community to focus attention on human rights abuses and contempt for the rule of law in Nigeria.

    In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said he was aware of the plot to muzzle him and others considered as non-conformists because of their opinion and critical stance on the President and his government.

    “Such plot will definitely be counterproductive.”

  • Workers accuse Fayose of spending N2.5b on streetlights

    Workers accuse Fayose of spending N2.5b on streetlights

    Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose spent N2.5 billion to maintain streetlights in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, in one year, an interest group in the civil service has alleged.

    The Enlightened Workers’ Forum (EWF) claimed that the governor spends N210 million to maintain the streetlights monthly.

    They wondered why such amount of money was spent on streetlights that only run from 7pm to 10pm daily.

    But the Commissioner for Public Utilities, Deji Adesua, described EWF members as “mischievous individuals who cluster together to discredit a government that is trying its best to make life easier for Ekiti people”.

    Adesua said: “Everybody knows that spending such an amount to maintain streetlights is not feasible in the Ekiti of today.

    “I want you to ask them how much is the allocation that comes to Ekiti monthly?

    “Can a government that is struggling to pay salaries spend such an amount on streetlights?

    “There is no iota of truth in their allegation and what they have said is not credible and it is far from the truth.”

    A statement yesterday by EWF Coordinator Mike Bamidele said the figure was made known at a stakeholders’ meeting in the Accountant-General’s Office.

    The workers described the splurge on streetlights as an avenue to loot the treasury.

    They called on anti-graft agencies to investigate the  “bogus and unreasonable plot to ruin the people’s commonwealth.”

    The statement said: “For the umpteenth time, we want to declare that Ekiti treasury is in trouble under Fayose. We implore whoever doubts this to investigate this claim.

    “The people may not know that each time he goes on the street for his overpriced purchases, he falls back on the treasury to claim whatever he had spent and for every N10,000, he claims N1 million.

    “The latest of the series of this executive stealing is the highly contestable spending of N2.5 billion on the maintenance of streetlights in Ado-Ekiti.

    “The figure is a projection of the figure released by the accountant general during a stakeholders’ meeting a couple of days ago.

    “The AG informed the meeting that Fayose spends N210 million to run the Ado Ekiti streetlights every month for just three hours from 7pm to 10pm. Haba!

    “Even N1 million to run the lights for only three hours per day is on the high side because our investigation showed that only N260 million was spent on the installation of the lights, running it for two years at 11 hours per day as well as the electricity bills.

    “Yet, Fayose had severally accused the last government of gross mismanagement. We can now judge which government is a rogue.”