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President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Ayo Fayose
of Ekiti state are in a war of words over the state of
Nigeria’s economy.
The Ekiti Governor was the first to fire the salvo when
he accused Mr. Buhari’s administration of paying out the
lowest-ever federally distributed allocations among the
three tiers of the government.
The Nigerian government had shared a little over N389
billion for the month of October to the three tiers of
government.
Mr. Fayose reacted to the low figure while speaking at
the graduation ceremony of College of Education, Ikere-
Ekiti, in which he asked Mr. Buhari to come clean to
Nigerians on the state of the economy.
Mr. Buhari reacted angrily to Mr. Fayose’s insinuations
by warning the governor to stop making unsubstantiated
allegations about the nation’s economy.
Mr. Buhari, who spoke through his media aide, Garba
Shehu, said Mr. Fayose’s comments were reckless, adding
that “the governor didn’t get his facts correct”.
Mr. Shehu also faulted Mr. Fayose’s claims that the N389
billion shared for the month October was the lowest ever
in the history of the country, saying the lowest ever
allocation to the three ties was issued by the Peoples
Democratic Party government of Goodluck Jonathan.
“Governor Fayose needs to be advised to desist from
spreading falsehood against the person and government
of President Muahmmadu Buhari as has become
characteristic of him. He needs to get his facts right
before making accusations of the nature he makes.
“The governor equally knows full well that his party in
government ruined the economy to the extent that
workers in 27 states went for several months without
salary. This crisis situation has now been reversed in
nearly all the states. Governor Fayose is himself in line
for the collection of his state’s bailout.
“Under the PDP federal government, ministries were not
given overhead costs for five months while the capital
budget was unpaid for six months in the run-up to the
exit of the PDP administration. Is there anyone in that
party with a moral justification to criticise the Buhari
administration which is working hard to clean up the
mess they (PDP) left behind?,” Mr. Shehu said.
However, Mr. Fayose also reacted angrily on Monday
saying he won’t let Mr. Buhari “take Nigeria back to
military era”.
He said the statement issued by Mr. Garba on behalf of
the president is a “demonstration of military dictatorshipr
mentality”.
In a statement released by his spokesperson, Lere
Olayinka, the Ekiti governor said it was sad that the
presidency could be warning a Nigerian, who is heading
one of the country’s federating units on what to say and
what not to say.
“Governor Fayose will continue to say the truth in
interest Nigeria and its people because the Governor is
not one of those that will go underground because of
political persecution,” he said.
He also insisted that the country’s economy was in
serious recession, adding that; “the president himself
attested to this when he said that the country was broke
and this has also been corroborated by the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Group financial
report, indicating that the corporation incurred a total
loss of N120.07bn in the months of August and
September.
“JP Morgan is also removing Nigeria from its Emerging
Market Bond Index, a move analysts say would have far
reaching implications for the country’s dwindling
economy as investors could move their funds to
competing countries, resulting in higher lending rates,”
he said.
The governor also said top functionaries of the APC,
including state governors criticised the PDP government
of Mr. Jonathan, and the presidency did not go about
warning them.
“Certainly, these people working with the president need
to be purged of Acquired Immune Military Dictatorship
Syndrome, AIMDS, even as they must be told that
Governor Fayose won’t stop speaking his mind and
exposing their hypocrisy in the overall interest of Nigeria
and its people,” he said.

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Who should we believe?

I PITY FAYOSE. HE need deliverance of the head b4 he destroy himself

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