FAYOSE TO FAYEMI: ‘Stop crying wolf’, you also signed a budget 1 month to handover

Ayodele Fayose, Governor of Ekiti State, has called out Governor-elect Kayode Fayemi for his alleged hypocrisy while signing into law, the N10 billion supplementary budget approved by the state house of assembly on Thursday.

Speaking at a session attended by Kola Oluwole, speaker of the assembly, and some legislators, Fayose said Fayemi, his predecessor, had no moral justification to raise questions over the supplementary budget, given that he did something similar in his last weeks in office.

“It is amusing to hear that Dr Kayode Fayemi said the revised budget being signed today was unnecessary,” he said.

“He (Fayemi) signed his own on September 15, 2014, exactly a month to his leaving office, now I’m signing my own on September 14. They should keep quiet and stop crying wolf, I’m still the governor.

“It is laughable that Fayemi won’t stop at anything to blackmail me even when he had to go to a ridiculous level.

“This revised budget being signed today September 14, 2018, Fayemi did sign the same kind of budget on September 15, 2014, when he had less than a month to leave office. Maybe he has forgotten, but Ekiti people are not suffering from dementia and are students of history.

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“The clerk of the House in 2014 when Fayemi signed his revised budget, Mr Tola Esan is still the clerk and he is here today. We are not robots and when there are things to attend to we will still do that before we leave office.

“When Fayemi finally resumes, he can turn the state upside down, history will record him.”

Meanwhile, APC lawmakers in the state described the action of the governor as fraudulent.

Speaking on behalf of his colleagues, the member representing Ikole constituency 1 and minority leader, Gboyega Aribisogan said: “The APC lawmakers and some members are not in support of the bill because it has been discovered that the outgoing governor wanted to use the house to legitimise fraud.”

He argued that the appropriation committee did not sit on the bill, that it was rather backdated to August 30 to give an impression that the committee had since been deliberating on it.

 

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