The Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has predicted that the All Progressives Congress will lose in the state in the forthcoming general election because of its anti-people programmes introduced into the state civil service during the regime of his predecessor in office, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
Speaking in Ilawe Ekiti, headquarters of Ekiti South West Local Government Area during a campaign rally, Fayose lamented that Fayemi was owing the state’s workers a staggering sum of N7.669 billion in terms of deductions, outstanding salaries and allowances before he left office on October 16, 2014.
Fayose lamented that the same Fayemi administration that was indebted to the teachers to the tune of N416 million being outstanding two months salaries, had the effrontery to build a Governor’s Lodge on Ayoba hill at the sum of N3.3 billion, describing the policy as wicked and inhuman.
But he pleaded with the people of the state to be patient with his government, saying his government has no magic wand to perform in view of the present economic predicament he met the state.
Fayose warned the people to reject all the candidates of the APC party, including its presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, and those vying for the assembly elections, saying the party had nothing to offer the state.
He added: “To let you know the level of finances of the state, a sum of N800 million is being deducted from source in Abuja from our monthly allocation.
“And there was no way you can negotiate because there was an agreement reached under Irrevocable Standing Payment Order by Fayemi’s Government with the capital market.
“Under this context, I realized that Ekiti won’t be able to pay salaries.
“I had to beg some of the banks that we are also indebted to being money borrowed by Fayemi to give six months moratorium and that is why we can pay salaries and deductions in the salaries paid to workers between April and June, 2013.”
Fayose charged the electorate to reject a party that had plunged the state into financial crisis for four years, adding returning the party to power will be catastrophic to the people.
Speaking on his political career since 2003, Fayose said: “I have considered my return to Ekiti Government House as rare mercy of God.
“And I have realized that God had done this magic through you.
“I am like a house that was built by you that needed to be fenced so that robbers won’t be able to penetrate.
“That is why I am appealing to you to vote for the PDP in all elections in the February elections.
“You have tasted our opposition and likewise my government and you know I am better off because I knew exactly where the shoe pinches.
“I am always on the same page with you.
“That was why I came up with candidates who would not take your votes and run away the way the APC members in the State and Federal Houses had been doing in the last four years.
“Whether somebody from your town is picked as APC candidate or not, just because of the love you have for me and my ability to deliver, vote for PDP.
“And I want to assure you of equitable distribution of resources within the limit of the resources available to Ekiti State during my reign.”
Fayose threatened that he would personally contribute to the political doom of any PDP candidate who fails to deliver to the people after defrauding them of their votes.
He promised that his government is fine tuning all arrangements for speedy conduct of the local government election in the state so that the people at the grass roots can be adequately taken care of by his government.