Stop deceiving Ekiti people on financial status - APC to Fayose

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has warned Governor Ayo Fayose against deceiving the people on the state financial status.

The party said the governor’s message to the civil servants that they should not expect salary in January was a mark of his uncaring attitude to workers, stressing that the current allocation to Ekiti State is enough to pay workers’ salary since the governor had refused to embark on any infrastructural development programme.

In a statement issued on Tuesday by its Publicity Secretary in the state, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party said October statutory federal allocation to the state and local governments totaling N3.635, 936,192.00 was more than enough to address workers’ pay.

He said, “October allocation to the state government is N1, 967,380,219.98, while allocation to the 16 local governments is N1, 668,555,972.02 totaling N3, 635,936,192.00. This is aside from the N9 billion bailout which is meant to clear arrears of salaries but which he has diverted and yet to account for.

“If Fayose claims he spends N2.6b for workers’ salary, which is inflated anyway, what does he do with the balance, particularly as he doesn’t have any infrastructural development spending?”

The APC spokesman also wondered how a governor that sacked thousands of workers, cut running grants to civil servants, refused to fund security agencies despite collecting monthly personal security vote of N250 million, refused to pay pensioners and stop monthly social security stipends to the elderly would still come before the workers that he did not have money to pay salary.

“‎During campaign, the governor promised to reduce fees at the state university. After initial cut in fees, he has now asked the university authorities to go back to the old regime and at present, students are paying more than they did when Dr. Kayode Fayemi was the governor.

“Fayose’s failure to comply with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) guidelines, including paying counterpart fund, was responsible for banning of the state from accessing Federal intervention fund to run primary schools, while he has also refused to pay counterpart fund in the running of the Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), the result of which has forced pupils to pay fees in primary schools,” he added.