Governor
Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state, yesterday, came under heavy criticism
from the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose
The Ekiti State chapter of APC has accused Governor AYo Fayose of beig a pathological and serial liar.
The party also stated that asides organizing road shows and buying
pepper and tomatoes in open markets to pretend to be people friendly,
Fayose has not achieved anything or concluded any project to his credit
since assuming office 10 months.
The state party made this known in a statement released by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun on Sunday August 23rd.
The statement read in part:
"Fayose claimed that Ekiti owed N86 billion, when in reality
the debt restructuring as released by the Debt Management Office (DMO)
and published in Thisday of Friday, August 21, 2015, confirmed Ekiti
debt as N18. 8 billion after conversion to long-term bond. This has
shown that Fayose is a pathological and serial liar.
Ekiti people should now ask Fayose where he got the N86b
figure he has been bandying around that does not allow him implement
development projects, including payments of gratuities and pensions for
several months while also refusing to pay last year September salaries
and five months salaries to traditional rulers after collecting
allocations for the payments.
The party challenged Fayose to probe the former governor of the
state, Kayode Fayemi, who according to the statement has made himself
available in the last 10 months if he is sure of his allegations.
Government is a continuum. Fayemi met billions of naira debts
on assumption of office, but this did not deter him from executing many
projects, including life-lifting and empowerment projects as well as
enduring physical infrastructure, such as renovation of schools and
hospitals, new Government House, the pavilion, the civic centre
incorporating e-library, women development centre, conference centre and
museum, construction of modern markets across the state amongst others.
This also did not stop him from increasing workers salaries three times, a feat which Fayose never matched not even once."