Fayose, who was a guest
appearance on a live programme on Channels Television titled Politics Today,
queried why the arrest had to coincide with his declaration to run for the 2019
presidential election which held at the Chelsea Hotel in Abuja.
Ekiti State Governor,
Ayodele Fayose, has said the arrest of the state’s Commissioner of Finance and
the state’s Accountant General by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) is shameful.
Recall that the EFCC, had
few hours after his declaration, arrested the state’s Commissioner for Finance,
Toyin Ojo, and the Accountant General, Yemisi Owolabi, over allegations of mismanagement of bailout
funds by the state government.
“Arresting my accountant
general and commissioner for finance, as fact, today is shameful,” Fayose said.
“Why did it coincide my declaration?
You are so intolerant of opposition, I cannot be perturbed by that. Even my
predecessor has been alleged, documents filed into the EFCC and nobody has
called him for one day.”
On allegations that the
bailout funds allocated to the state were mismanaged, he said, “May I say to
you expressly sir, that your story is incorrect.”
Fayose explained further,
“Ekiti got the least. Ekiti got a bailout of N4.7b; the state wage bill is 2.6,
the local government is 2.4 which automatically amounts that the bailout, even
if it’s used strictly and only for salaries, cannot pay salaries of both state
and local government for one month.
“I don’t appropriate money
in Ekiti, I give the receipt of our allocations to the labour leaders. I have a
standing committee of the labour leaders that share money in Ekiti, I gave that
right to them.”
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