A former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, said on Wednesday that he left N12 billion in the state’s treasury while leaving office.
Alao-Akala said this in a statement signed by his Director of Public Affairs, Oludare Ogunlana, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Ogbomoso.
He described as “untrue” the allegation leveled against him by Governor Abiola Ajimobi that he “wasted” N3 billion in a week.
“I left N12 billion in the state’s coffers without any loan or debt,” he said.
The former governor also urged Ajimobi to explain how he spent the reported N100 billion the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said the state had collected as allocation.
Alao-Akala also said neither his wife nor children were arrested both within and outside the country for money laundering or financial recklessness.
The former governor, however, congratulated the people of the state, saying “the long years of their sufferings would soon be over.”