APC Tells Fayose To Explain N9.6bn Loan Application

According to leadership Newspaper, The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked Governor Ayodele Fayose to explain to the people of the state, the rationale behind his alleged application for N9.6billion loan as part of the special federal government’s facility to the state.

The party, in a statement by its state publicity secretary, Hon Taiwo Olatunbosun, in Ado Ekiti yesterday, wondered why the governor wanted to draw from the loan facility approved for only the states that were indebted to workers, even against the background of persistent claims that he did not owe workers in the state civil service.

Accusing the governor of having a history of lack of accountability and transparency in the running of the affairs of the state, he said, “It is difficult to trust a one-man government where the House of Assembly doesn’t have any voice and the state executive council is not functioning, while both the state accountant general and auditor-general sign documents without questions on what they are asked to do by the governor.

“Besides, why will a governor who does not owe salaries and has not shown Ekiti people his development blue print be taking loan? Why does he need N9.6billion after he has declared he was not owing Ekiti workers, more so that the loan is meant for defaulting states to clear their backlog of salaries?”   he queried. The APC spokesman said the governor was also yet to explain to the people of the state what he did with N2.1billion bailout fund as well as N8. 5billion he received in June , which he claimed was included in the regular statutory allocation.

But Governor Fayose while appearing on a radio/television programmes had said that the money was meant for the payment of workers’ salaries.

Expressing worry over aberrations inw the running of government where other moderating units of government had no voice, Olatunbosun regretted that the House of Assembly had gone dumb and cannot ask the governor to explain why he was still owing September 2014 salary arrears after collecting allocation for same.

“What has he done with July Federation Account allocation which was shared in August?