Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti
State, has challenged the
Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to
make public names of the 15
former governors and 55 Nigerians that he claimed stole
N1.34 trillion between 2006 and
2013 or keep his mouth shut
permanently. Fayose-Lai Mohammed In a statement by his Special
Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media,
Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose
said “The reality is that the All
Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government has
destroyed the economy within
eight months in power and
rather than look for solutions to
the problems facing Nigeria, Lai
Mohammed and his cohorts are branding bogus figures about
stolen money just to cover up
their lack of solution to the
country’s economic problems.” The governor, who also
described as disgraceful, bringing
the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) National Publicity
Secretary, Olisa Metuh to court
in handcuff, said; “Even the masterminds of Mandala and
Nyanya bomb blasts, Kabiru
Sokoto and Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche
were not handcuffed when they
were arraigned in court.” Fayose said it was funny that
close to one year after it won
the presidential election, the
President Muhammadu Buhari-led
APC federal government was still
operating as if it was campaigning for votes. The governor said: “They are
turning governance to
Nollywood, such that when one
movie is about to end, they
release another one. As it
appears that the $2.1 billion arms deal movie is getting to an
end, Lai Mohammed introduced
another movie titled N1.34 trillion
loot. “Unfortunately for them this
time around, Nigerians have
become tired of watching the
Federal Government movies, they
now want reality. Nigerians are
now aware of the scam in the $ 2.1 billion arms deal movie having
seen that the amount those
already charged to court were
charged with is not more than
N10 billion and $2.1 billion is over
N600 billion. “Therefore, Lai Mohammed must
either tell Nigerians details of
the 15 former governors and 55
people that he claimed stole
N1.34 trillion, where the stolen
money is kept and bring back the money or apologise to
Nigerians for lying.” While describing the persistent
claim by the federal government
that the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) destroyed Nigeria
for 16 years as hypocritical,
Governor Fayose said Nigerians must begin to ask which party
majority of those presently
ruling the country under the APC
government were between 1999
and 2014. “Majority of those who ran the
Federal Government between
1999 and 2003 under the PDP
are in the APC government
today. President, vice president,
ministers, governors, senators and House of Reps members who
were part of the PDP
government are now in APC. Yet,
APC keeps telling Nigerians that
PDP ruined the country. This
hypocrisy must stop,” he said. The governor, who insisted that
due process of the law must be
followed in fighting corruption,
noted that disobedience to court
orders itself is a criminal offence
that is more grievous than corruption. He said no amount of
harassment and intimidation will
silence opposition in the country,
saying President Buhari and his
men should
rather get used to the reality that opposition must exist in a
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