Following the alleged loan to the sum of N56billion, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has promised to resign if anybody can prove the allegation as alleged by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The governor in a tweet on Monday insisted he has not taken any loan as governor since he resumed office for a second term in October 2014.
The Ekiti state APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun had in a statement on Monday accused governor Fayose of spending N56billion on white elephant projects which he awarded to companies belonging to his cronies for personal benefits.
Olatunbosun in the statement claimed the governor is in the habit of always lying to the public, adding that the latest revelation had put to rest his shameless lies in pursuit of fraudulent agenda for personal benefit while workers are unpaid for nine months.
In the statement, the Ekiti state APC Publicity Secretary said “how can Fayose commit the state to so much debts, collect over three years’ allocations and other financial reliefs from the Federal Government, yet he is owing workers and pensioners for months?
He is taking advantage of every opportunity to criminally exploit the Ekiti people, many of whom are sick; others are dying while the governor and his family members are contractors executing inflated contracts.
Fayose will surely account and pay back every penny he and his family took from Ekiti coffers through his white elephant projects, and for the first time, he will know that Ekiti people are no fools that he calls them.”
Meanwhile the Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka yesterday in a release said “there is no recent bulletin from the DMO website concerning debt owed by any state as claimed in the false report. Nigerians, especially Ekiti people, can visit the DMO website for further clarification”.
