Special Assistant to Ekiti State
Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka has challenged
the Minister for Steel and Minerals Resources Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi to
walk the streets of Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, without security men
and see whether he won’t be stoned by angry people of Ekiti State whose money he
“looted” during his tenure as governor.
Olayinka said; “As governor, Fayemi
failed Ekiti people and as a minister, he is also failing Ekiti people because
up till today, he cannot point to one benefit Ekiti has derived from having him
as minister of Mines and Steel Development despite the numerous solid minerals
in the State.”
While reacting to comment by
Fayemi that the public should wait and see who will go to jail between him and
Fayose, and that he had have been out of office and still moving free, but
Fayose won’t be able to walk free on the streets after losing immunity,
Olayinka challenged Fayemi to subject himself to the court of public opinion in
Ekiti State by walking from Fajuyi Park to the All Progressives Congress (APC)
office in Ajilosun, Ado Ekiti without being guarded by armed security men.
“Fact is, even a councilor in Ado
Local Government is more popular than Fayemi and he can let us proof this by
walking the streets in the State capital without his retinue of security
aides,” Olayinka said.
The governor’s spokesperson, who
described Fayemi as one of the beneficiaries of President Muhammadu Buhari’s
policy of protecting armed robbers in his government and running after petty
thieves for political gains, added that; “a man who illegally used Fountain Holdings,
a company with N15 million share capital to obtain N5billion loan for sham road
construction projects, took N25 billion bond and diverted chunk of the money into
private pockets and plunged Ekiti State into debt should be cooling his heads
in prison by now if truly President Buhari is fighting corruption.”
He reminded the former governor
that he must refund a sum of N2.75 billion allocated from the N25 billion bond
obtained by the government for the execution of contract for the construction
of Ultra-Modern market in Ado Ekiti, which was never executed.
Olayinka said further, “A man who
as governor, awarded contract of over N600 million to a company with no
traceable address and carted away 17 Joylong Buses that Coscharis Motors
supplied to the Ekiti State Government as gift can only
be a minister under a government of treasury looters like that of President
Buhari.
Olayinka reminded Fayemi that he
never won any election in Ekiti, sating “even the primary election that gave
him the Action Congress (AC) governorship ticket in 2006 was manipulated and
those who did the manipulation are still alive. He was roundly defeated by the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2007 and in the rerun election of 2009 until the
governorship was handed to him through the most scandalous judicial
manipulation in the history of Nigeria.”
He said apart from regular
monthly allocation of over N160 billion, Fayemi also received N46.4 billion from
the Excess Crude Account, yet he took N25 billion bond and N31 billion
commercial bank loan. One of such frivolous loans was the N5 billion obtained
from a commercial bank without the Debt Management Office (DMO) approval, using
Fountain Holdings Limited, a company with N15 million share capital.
“How a limited liability company
with N15 million share capital could be used to borrow N5 billion and when it
became the duty of Fountain Holdings Limited to construct roads are two questions
Fayemi has to answer.”
Olayinka, who encouraged Fayemi to
come out openly to declare his intention to contest the 2018 governorship,
said; “When he mounts the campaign podium, we want to know what he will be
telling Ekiti people that he has done for the State as minister for Steel and
Minerals Resources Development.”
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