The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayo Fayose of presenting projects executed by the last administrations as new ones to deceive the people.
The party said some projects the governor claimed to have executed with state funds were actually carried out by some corporate organisations.
The Fayose administration has concluded arrangements to inaugurate some projects on Friday as the ceremony is expected to be witnessed by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors.
The APC in a statement yesterday by Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said: “We want to alert the six governors that what they are coming to do in Ekiti State is a celebration of fraud and not a celebration of a new lease of life for our people.
“Awedele road is an expansion project that he had earlier listed for inauguration during his first year anniversary.
“The governor removed the electricity poles purchased by former Governor Kayode Fayemi and kept in the Government House for rural electrification and repainted them to look like new poles for electricity projects in Awedele and Bank Road.
“The newly constructed Funmi Olayinka Women Centre at Fajuyi is a N600million TETFUND project funded by a bank originally planned to be located at the Ekiti State University campus, but because Fayose wanted to con people with the project, he forced its relocation to Fajuyi and has been deceiving Ekiti people that he built that edifice.
“The same is Ikere-Ekiti N400million road dualisation funded by another bank as its social responsibility project in Ekiti State, yet the governor has been deceiving the people that he built the road.
“Unfortunately, it is this fraud that these six governors are coming to celebrate with Fayose and Ekiti people while in their states, fresh projects have been inaugurated.”
The opposition party said all the projects listed for inauguration are not new, explaining that most of them are expanded projects for which Ekiti people would be made to pay for as new projects.
Olatunbosun cited alleged fraudulent disbursement of the bailout cash of N9.6billion that the governor could not account for to the people.
“The ICPC and NLC report, after investigating how the bailout cash was spent by the states, found out that Ekiti State was owing one month salary (October 2015) when the bailout of N9,604,304,000.00 was paid to the state.
“Ekiti State debts incorporating salaries and emoluments, including severance allowances to political office holders, totalled N3,000,266,146.64.
“But without paying these salaries and emoluments, the governor declared that N9,213,816,252.55 was disbursed leaving the balance of N390,613,747.50.
“What he disbursed N9,213,816,252.55 for, nobody knows; nobody knows where the purported balance of N390,613,747.50 is kept, yet the governor is owing workers four months salaries,” he explained.
“Fayose must have deceived the ICPC with fake disbursement schedule. We challenge Fayose to publish names of the beneficiaries of his purported N9.6 billion bailout fund.
Olatunbosun urged the Federal Government to keep an eye on Fayose on his overhead bridge project, saying this became imperative because “the governor is notorious for shoddy construction jobs”. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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APC! you're a Liar.. Why cant you look at yourself and face the situation your the country. What has a project commission of a certain state concern with the suffering of the people that need urgent attention.Abeg! start working joor.
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