The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has decried what it said was Governor Ayodele Fayose’s Christmas Dubai trip and described the alleged trip as “a reckless insensitivity to the workers’ plight.”
The APC, in a statement, on Tuesday, by its publicity secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said it was “a height of irresponsibility by the governor to embark on private comfort abroad while state workers live in miserable conditions during festive Yuletide season.”
But the state government decried what it said was “APC’s usual ludicrous vituperations” and said Governor Fayose was “on holiday like any other worker who has worked conscientiously throughout the year.”
Olatunbosun had specifically alleged that the governor refused “to pay workers’ salary for three months while embarking on foreign Christmas trip through over-bloated expenses costing Ekiti people N250 million.”
But the state Commissioner for Information, Youth and Sports, Mr Lanre Ogunsuyi, said: “The governor is on holiday like every other worker who has worked conscientiously throughout the year, it was not an official journey and it means the governor will be responsible for all the expenses, because he travelled as Mr Fayose and not as Governor Fayose.
“APC is talking, having lost all relevance. Every worker in Ekiti has been paid October salary, unless the party has a different calendar, what is outstanding is November and December salaries and the people could understand the reason behind it.
“The bailout was expended as instructed by the CBN. It is left for the CBN through its audit mechanism to say anything in response to what the APC has said. They are campaigning to gain some relevance they have lost.
“They should send their petition to EFCC, because they are the one that has power to probe and indict,” he said.
Olatunbosun had said Governor Fayose’s Sunday trip to Dubai was “the height of insensitivity and wickedness for a governor who always calls himself peoples’ governor,” saying “It is more worrisome that the governor prepared and collected travelling allowances for 10 aides who he claimed were to travel with him to Dubai, but only one eventually made the trip while money running into millions for the remaining nine was pocketed by the governor.”
The APC, in a statement, on Tuesday, by its publicity secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said it was “a height of irresponsibility by the governor to embark on private comfort abroad while state workers live in miserable conditions during festive Yuletide season.”
But the state government decried what it said was “APC’s usual ludicrous vituperations” and said Governor Fayose was “on holiday like any other worker who has worked conscientiously throughout the year.”
Olatunbosun had specifically alleged that the governor refused “to pay workers’ salary for three months while embarking on foreign Christmas trip through over-bloated expenses costing Ekiti people N250 million.”
But the state Commissioner for Information, Youth and Sports, Mr Lanre Ogunsuyi, said: “The governor is on holiday like every other worker who has worked conscientiously throughout the year, it was not an official journey and it means the governor will be responsible for all the expenses, because he travelled as Mr Fayose and not as Governor Fayose.
“APC is talking, having lost all relevance. Every worker in Ekiti has been paid October salary, unless the party has a different calendar, what is outstanding is November and December salaries and the people could understand the reason behind it.
“The bailout was expended as instructed by the CBN. It is left for the CBN through its audit mechanism to say anything in response to what the APC has said. They are campaigning to gain some relevance they have lost.
“They should send their petition to EFCC, because they are the one that has power to probe and indict,” he said.
Olatunbosun had said Governor Fayose’s Sunday trip to Dubai was “the height of insensitivity and wickedness for a governor who always calls himself peoples’ governor,” saying “It is more worrisome that the governor prepared and collected travelling allowances for 10 aides who he claimed were to travel with him to Dubai, but only one eventually made the trip while money running into millions for the remaining nine was pocketed by the governor.”
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