Lere
Olayinka, the Ekiti State Governor's aide has described the Minister of
Mines and Steel Development as a 'shamelessly shameless man', who
should be facing trial over alleged looting.
Gov. Fayose
The Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, Mr. Lere Olayinka, has described
the Minister of Mines and Steel Development and former governor of the
State, Dr Kayode Fayemi as a “shamelessly shameless man, who
ordinarily should be facing trial superintending over the looting of
Ekiti treasury with reckless abandon during his four years as governor.”
Olayinka, who declared that “Fayemi has never won any election in Ekiti,” said; “Even
the primary election that gave him the Action Congress (AC)
governorship ticket in 2006 was manipulated and those who did the
manipulation are still alive. He was roundly defeated by the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in 2007 and in the rerun election of 2009 until
the governorship was handed to him through the most scandalous judicial
manipulation in the history of Nigeria.”
Governor Fayose’s spokesperson, who was reacting to Fayemi’s
comment in a national daily, casting aspersion on the governor and his
government, said; “in saner climes, a man like Fayemi, who was
indicted by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for
illegally withdrawing the sum of N852.9 million from the State Universal
Education Board (SUBEB) account, making UBEC to suspend Ekiti State
from accessing any further FGN-UBE Intervention Fund will be burying his
head in shame.”
He challenged Fayemi to come out openly to declare his intention to
contest the 2018 governorship, adding that; “In Ekiti today, one
product that is a hard-sell is Dr John Kayode Fayemi and the earlier he
realises this, the better for him. When he mounts the campaign podium,
what will he be telling Ekiti people?
“Is Fayemi going to be reminding Ekiti people how he plunged
the State into debt, hunted teachers with competency test that was only
meant to reduce the number of teachers in the State, harassed local
government workers with what was known as ‘LG Boko Haram’ and sacked
duly elected council chairmen and councillors as well as council
Directors of Admin, Treasurers among others?
“It is on record that apart from regular monthly allocation and
Subsidy Reinvestment Programme (SURE-P) fund among others, Fayemi’s
received N46.4 billion from the Excess Crude Account, yet he took N25
billion bond and N31 billion commercial bank loan. One of such frivolous
loans was the N5 billion obtained from a commercial bank without the
Debt Management Office (DMO) approval, using Fountain Holdings Limited, a
company with N15 million share capital.
“Up till today, he is still running away from facing the State
House of Assembly to answer questions on how he looted Ekiti treasury,
especially how a limited liability company with N15 million share
capital could be used to borrow N5 billion and when it became the duty
of Fountain Holdings Limited to construct roads.”
Speaking further, the governor’s spokesperson said; “As
governor, Fayemi failed Ekiti people and as a minister, he is also
failing Ekiti people because up till today, he cannot point to one
benefit Ekiti has derived from having him as minister of Mines and Steel
Development despite the numerous solid minerals in the State.”