Fayose jittery, alleges N5bn has entered Ekiti to be spent on APC gov primary

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has raised the alarm alleging of the influx of questionable funds into the state for Saturday’s All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election.

He said that genuine lovers of democracy should be worried that over N5 billion cash will be going into mere primary election of a political party that claimed to be fighting corruption.

The governor also alleged that some of the APC governorship aspirant had earmarked N1 million each to buy 2,000 delegates and other ones between N500,000 and N200,000 for at least 1,500 delegates.

He said, “If truly President Muhammadu Buhari is truly fighting corruption, anti-corruption agencies will have their searchlights beamed on the conduct of the APC primary election in Ekiti State, with a view to unravelling where the billions of naira cash being share left, right and center are coming from.

“Even those claiming to have integrity among them are saying on live radio programmes that they have enough cash to bribe delegates, this is ridiculous.”

Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, quoted him as saying this in a release issued on Wednesday.

According to the governor, it was alarming and questionable how a single aspirant will amass N2 billion to bribe delegates.

“Were they keeping the money somewhere with the intention of using it to buy their party members that they have impoverished by ruining the country’s economy?

“If they spend over N5 billion just to get the party ticket, how much are they going to spend for the election proper? And where lies their claim to anti-corruption fight?” he said.

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The governor however described the naira rain in the APC as the party members’ “share from the money their leaders may have looted either from Ekiti treasury or national treasury”.

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