PDP
asks Fayemi to account for N16.7bn IGR
Kamarudeen
Ogundele, Ado Ekiti
The
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said the Presidency should be ready
for the defeat of the All Progressives Congress and its candidate, Dr. Kayode
Fayemi, in the July 14 governorship election in the state.
This
was as the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State asked Fayemi to account for
N16.7bn his administration under-declared as Internally-Generated Revenue from
2010 to 2014.
The
party said this became necessary since Fayemi’s claim of N600m monthly IGR,
which totalled N7.2bn yearly, contradicted the figures his administration gave
to the National Bureau of Statistics, the Federal Ministry of Finance, and the
Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, among others.
Fayose
said the defeat of the APC would be a shocker for the Presidency and a
congratulatory message for the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee
of the party.
He
stated this in reaction to the notice to quit given to him and his party, the
PDP, by the Presidency during the APC’s National Convention in Abuja.
Speaking
through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti on
Sunday, the governor said apart from losing Ekiti, the APC would also meet its
waterloo in Osun State and would be finally dislodged from the Presidency in
2019.
Fayose
was optimistic that the PDP and its candidate, Prof Kolapo Olusola, would win
convincingly during the poll.
“He
(Fayemi) has offended the teachers, who he demoted, harassed and planned to
sack. They also know that if Fayemi comes back, he is going to sack them, so,
how will teachers vote for him?”
“The
local government workers that Fayemi harassed and said were not necessary are
not his friends.
“Recently,
he said no local government needs more than 200 workers, signifying that he
plans to sack them if elected. They won’t vote for him.
“He
said commercial motorcyclists are a nuisance and should be barred from operating
in the state. They will not vote Fayemi or the APC. The list is endless and the
people of the state who are reeling under the heavy debts he put the state
into, have rejected him,” he said.
The
state PDP Chairman, Gboyega Oguntuase, in a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday,
said available records indicated that Fayemi under-declared the IGR that
accrued to the state under him.
He
said since Fayemi claimed that he raised the IGR to N600m monthly which should
be about N7.2bn in a year, it meant that his administration under-declared its
IGR and should tell the Ekiti people where the remaining funds were.
Oguntuase
explained that since the Fayose’s administration came on board, the IGR so far
generated could be ascertained.
He
said, “In 2015, we generated N3.3bn which amounted to an average of N283m
monthly. In 2016, it was N2.9bn via an average of N241m monthly.
“In
2017, it increased to N3.8bn via an average of N306m monthly. We have nothing
to hide; it is Fayemi that has to tell the people of the state what he did with
their money.”
But
reacting, the Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation accused Fayose and his men of
concocting ridiculous and inconsistent figures to claim that Fayemi either put
the state in debts or that he stole money.
“Fayose
first said Fayemi left N96bn debt. Later, he reduced the figure to N92bn and
again to N86bn. Later, he called it N76bn to the point that you could not even
say this is what the figure was until the DMO declared that the debt was N18bn.
“One
good thing is that Ekiti people have seen through Fayose’s wall of deception
and there is no lie and blackmail that can change the minds of Ekiti people
from kicking out Fayose and his clique from their lives so that they can start
living like other decent Nigerians who are lucky not to be doomed to Fayose’s
voodoo economic management where figures appear, disappear and re-appear to
confound decent Ekiti people that are living under the yoke of ruthless
businessmen that have hit jackpot in Ekiti State.”
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