Adeyeye slams Fayemi on scholarship award to six Ekiti students

The campaign organisation of Afenifere chieftain and Peoples
Democratic Party governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Prince Adedayo
Adeyeye, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement, has described the claim by
the state Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, that he gave scholarship to six
Ekiti State students to study abroad as “cheap, childish and a
propaganda that can only emanate from the stable of a government that
is in desperate search for its lost image and credibility.”
PAAM said it was ridiculous for Fayemi to have claimed that he was
funding the education of the six students from his own purse.
It asked: “How can a governor whose monthly salary is less than
N700,000 claim that he is funding close to N50 million donation from
his personal pocket?”
In a statement signed by the Director General of PAAM, Hon. Bisi
Kolawole, the governor was asked to list the number of Ekiti State
students that he helped with as cheap as payment for JAMB form between
2005 and 2010.
The statement reads: “To us in the PDP, we recognise that one of the
ways to develop a society is to fund education of brilliant but
indigent students through award of scholarship.
“That was the reason the immediate past PDP government of Engr Segun
Oni gave scholarship to over 3,000 indigent but brilliant Ekiti
students, through the State Scholarship Board that the government
established.
“Then, students doing PhD in Nigeria got N500,000 while those in
foreign universities received N1 million. Those doing their Masters in
Nigeria were given N300,000 while those in foreign universities were
given N500,000. Four Marine Engineering students were sent to Egypt to
study with the government spending N36 million on them.
“Now a governor gave six Ekiti students, among whom was a student who
graduated from a private university scholarship out of several
thousands of Ekiti students in need of such gesture, and he is
everywhere advertising it.
“And he didn’t stopped there, he is also telling the public that the
money came from his personal pocket and we ask him; did he gave
scholarship to Ekiti students to study even in Isan-Ekiti, his
hometown or Iworoko in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 that he
was not a governor?
“Is Security Vote from where donations from governors are sourced from
Fayemi’s personal purse?
“We also wish to ask what has happened to the State Scholarship Board,
established by the Oni-led government?”