Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that mere sacking of the Director General of Budget, Yahaya Gusau and appointment of new one would not erase the national embarrassment generated by the errors of the 2016 budget, insisting that the budget must be withdrawn from the National Assembly and a new and error free one represented.
In a release issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said what the controversial 2016 budget required was a holistic approach, not just making one person scapegoat.
He maintained that padding of the budget with strange figures, now being denied by Ministers was a clear intention to steal in advance, adding that;
“Though it is good that the President listened to my call for the punishment of those responsible for the national embarrassment, mere sacking of officers at the Budget Office will not remove the stain splashed on Nigeria by the shameful budget.”
The governor said; “Sacking one or two persons on this budget scam is just like using some people as cover-up for the national embarrassment caused by the President himself. Even the President himself signed a letter wrongly dated as October 22, 2016 and one is tempted to ask who the President will sack for these avoidable errors.
“Or was it the sacked DG of Budget Office the one who unilaterally put all those bogus figures like N3.8 billion for Aso Villa Clinic, N780 million for website in one single ministry, and others in the budget? “In my own opinion, it is necessary that those handling the President should bring it to his consciousness that he is not God that cannot make mistakes and this budget scam must be seen as part of the mistakes that President Buhari is capable of making.
“By doing this, the President will be provided with another opportunity to re-present the Budget because I wonder how Nigeria can operate on a budget already disowned by notable ministers, including the government’s spokesperson. “
Or what remedy can anyone do to a budget in which 2015 budgetary allocations of an agency was reproduced verbatim? Even N180 million was discovered to have been allocated to NIMET twice.”orate bodies to get funding for some of our projects. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Pele opposition leader. All your vocal tricks we all know and it won't work.
ReplyDeleteAbeg help me tell am oooo, wailing day and night. There is no hiding place for him.
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DeleteEnter your reply...Mr over sabi Governor, Have u paid those protesting teachers in ur State?Remove d loggs in ur eyes b/4 Removing d mote in other people's eye.You want to build airport in ur State when the one in Ondo State is not being use and ur people are hungry.OPE and MUMU GOVERNOR.
DeleteFayose is yet to recover
ReplyDeleteAre you people blind that you cannot see the bogus and erroneous budget submitted by your clueless c in c? Fayose ride on, Nigeria can never be a one party country.
ReplyDeleteYou call people blind and yet you are blind, deaf and dumb to the 'madness' and crimes of Fayose, which will sooner than later catch up with him.
Deleteyou are that is blind to allow this Governor that is not busy to make a fool of you. did you see the way he presented his own budget and rubber stamp it same day in ekiti house house. This man does not himself like opposition. go and check his history to date. his just making noise cos he knows nemesis will soon catch up with him
ReplyDeleteEven if we all know that Fayoshe talks unruly and that he is still owing his teachers which makes me dislike him, that does not mean he doesn't make sense at all. He is a nigerian that has a right and freedom to express his position about national issues.
ReplyDeleteHis right to speak should not be taken seriously if he is allegedly a criminal with so many controversies hanging over his neck. You don't have a right to judge others when you are guilty of the same crime and, in his case, worse.
DeleteDoes it erase the fact that there are so many errors in the budget??
DeleteWhen a son makes comment of every thing happening in his father's bedroom. Check very well, he may be interested in one of his father's wives. This is not opposition. Fayose is executive governor of a state, he does nothing other than spy and comment on PMB. I wish him well, imagine a local government chairman doing same to him, What do you think Fayose will do to that chairman?
ReplyDeletePls make this man a pdp spokesman and pdp will win next election. This governor get mind o no be small and I love him for that. He has his own fault but he has spoken the truth and always saying it. Pple supporting BuharI are blind bcos instead of them to look at the present situation and what he is talking about and see the truth in it they want to kill the truth with their bad mouth. Why don't to first commend him for the truth before talking about his own mistake. Mchew
ReplyDeleteThe perm secs should be sacked as well, they are the budget mafia.
ReplyDeleteThis shows that this present administration are not capable of doing nigeria any good at all
ReplyDeletewas he alive in the last regime? dud not see anything bad in the last regime? oh the last regime that put us into mess was very perfect to him because they covered his atrocities. my ? is why did he not utter words like this in the last regime if truly he is real as his making us to believe. I recon nemesis shall catch up with him
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