Some groups in Ekiti State rallied in Ado Ekiti on Friday in support of the anti-corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari and also demanded that Governor Ayodele Fayose of the state should pay the workers of the state without delay.
A group, Be The Change Organisation (BCO) which organised the rally said its members were in support of the anti-corruption fight by the Federal Government led by President Buhari and that all Nigerians must support any move to recover the peoples commonwealth from looters.
Executive Director of BCO, Mrs. Omotunde Fajuyi, said Ekiti people were people of honour and integrity but expressed dismay that “Governor Fayose’s conduct in power has brought shame and odium on all Ekitis both at home and abroad.”
Fajuyi said: “Workers are dying at home, we want Fayose to explain what he has done with allocations he had so far collected because he had received more than N50 billion as allocation since he came to power.
Mr. Adeoye Aribasoye, challenged Fayose to explain what he did with ecological funds and N9.6 billion bailout funds he received from the Federal Government.
Reacting, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Idowu Adelusi said “Omotunde Fajuyi and Adeoye Aribasoye are known All Progressives Congress cronies who already knew the answers to the misguided posers they were raising because they were part of the government chased away by Ekiti people with their overwhelming votes.”
Adelusi said: “Delay in payment of workers’ salaries in Ekiti cannot be blamed on Governor Fayose because it was not his administration that plunged the state into a huge debt which has now made the creditors to continue to deduct N1.2 billion on monthly basis from the federal allocation of N2.6 billion.”
