Allegation mischievous – Aide
By Rotimi Ojomoyela Ado-Ekiti
All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti state has said Governor Ayodele Fayose’s planned meeting with workers and other stakeholders over the Paris Club refund of N4.7 billion was “a ploy to brainwash Ekiti people and to deceive them with ultimate goal to, as usual, divert the money for selfi sh motives.” In a statement by the Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party said Ekiti people were no longer deceived by the governor’s antics in always calling workers and other stakeholders to meetings to brainwash them on the state’s fi nancial matters. According to the statement, such practice is a worn-out tactic to “fraudulently deny workers their salaries and con Ekiti people for selfi sh motives.” He said: “Governor Fayose believes that he is wiser than all Ekiti people put together, which he recklessly celebrates in his contemptuous cliché as ‘Ekiti people are stupid.
’ “Th e governor started his latest trick when he called Labour leaders to a meeting last month that Paris Club refund coming to the state would be N4.7 billion just to create the impression that he is running a transparent administration. “We are aware that after collecting the money, he has started calling another round of meetings brainwashing workers that N4.7 billion Paris Club refund will not be enough to pay one month salary barely a month after he confessed that the actual Ekiti monthly wage bill is N1.7 billion and several months after he consistently lied that the state’s wage bill was N2.6 billion.” But Fayose’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, described the APC allegation as “mischief taken too far.” Adelusi, who was reacting to the APC statement in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, said the statement, credited to the Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, clearly showed that the APC was made up of “touts, mischief makers and educated illiterates.”
