It said the messianic posturing by Fayose who has urged his fellow governors to cut overseas trips and shun opulence instead of cutting workers’ pay was the height of hypocrisy by the governor and fraud on Nigerian workers
Browsing: Governor Ayo Fayose
The personalities pleaded on behalf of the SSG during the celebration of the 25th coronation anniversary of Oba Adejugbe Aladesanmi in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday
Governor Fayose said on Friday that the decision could not have represented the collective will of the NGF
This is conveyed in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Idowu Adelusi, and made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday
Governor Fayose, who disclosed this at the weekend while speaking during a sensitisation tour of Irepodun/Ifelodun and Ekiti South-West Local Government Areas, said the current minimum wage of N18,000 was “grossly inadequate”, adding that “any slash would not augur well for the workers and their dependants”
The Publicity Secretary of the APC in Ekiti State, Taiwo Olatunbosun, in a statement described Fayose’s recalcitrant attitude to a policy with potential to save the country from national malaise of corruption as dangerous and reckless behaviour from a governor averse to accountability in financial matters and who has taken impunity as important element of governance
I am not interested in anything. Even this one, this one that I am serving, it is the will of God for me. There is nothing to vie for. By morals, it can’t be the turn of Yoruba if truly we are into rotation and for me, I am not vying for anything. I am not equally going to the Senate. Senate is what most governors will rush to
Reacting to the recent declaration by Fayose that the state’s debts had risen to N252 billion, the Publicity Secretary of the APC, Taiwo Olatubosun, said in a statement that the governor had turned himself to a “master juggler in a dishonest public show where two plus two may not be four”
In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor wondered how a tribunal could make the conduct of the PDP primary that produced Governor Ishaku in Abuja an issue when the tribunal itself sat in Abuja
According to a statement issued on Sunday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said his position was not to favour any individual but in the collective interest of Ekiti State people
Fayose said the seeming collaboration between the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government and a section of the judiciary is worrisome and portends grave danger to the corporate existence of Nigeria
Fayose had early in the week accused Nigerian judges of corruption, saying some of them were in the habit of begging to be appointed as election tribunals’ chairmen in order to extort money from politicians
Fayose said he had expected that the new INEC chairman will be chosen from one of the three southern geo-political zones, especially the South Western part of the country being the only zone yet to produce chairman of the nation’s electoral umpire
Noting that the governor had failed to take along workers on whose behalf he obtained the money for the settlement of their entitlements, Olatunbosun also accused Fayose of refusing to pay last year September salary and leave bonus to workers
Findings revealed Adeola Alabi, who was fined N20,000 by the Ekiti State Traffic Management Agency in Ado Ekiti, is neither a staff of the Corps nor a member of the Special Marshal Unit of the Corps
Speaking in Ado-Ekiti at a state dinner organised to mark the first year of his second term in office, the governor said he is always thankful to God for making him overcome political hurdles placed on his path by opponents
He said: “It is painful that the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government finally succeeded in hounding an Ijaw leader to death just because of his staunch stance on the upcoming Bayelsa State governorship election
The House, in a statement by the Special Assistant (Media) to the Speaker, Stephen Gbadamosi, noted that with the achievements he had recorded in the last one year, Fayose had justified the confidence the electorate reposed in him in the last governorship election in the state
He was reacting to insinuations by some APC members that Fayose had no choice other than to support the nomination of former Governor Kayode Fayemi as a minister from the state
Fayose, however, charged them during the week to consider the benefit of having one of their own as a minister above party affiliations, and give Fayemi the necessary support to scale the screening hurdle