The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has described the claim by Governor Ayodele Fayose that the fresh Paris Club refund to the state will be insufficient to pay more than one month salary as false, misleading and an attempt to misappropriate the money for selfish reasons.
The governor, according to the party had while featuring on a media chat, said the money due to Ekiti was half of the last refund of N8.8b.
He said that debts deductions and local government share of the refund had shrunk the balance to N4b for Ekiti State Government.
This came as the former member of the House of Representatives, Mr Bimbo Daramola called on all gladiators and members of the All Progressives Congress in the state to close ranks and play down personal interest so as to guarantee the victory of the party in the next gubernatorial election.
Reacting in a statement on Monday, APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said the governor was only applying “his usual distortion of facts to brainwash Ekiti workers and people in general in order to misapply the money for selfish reasons”.
Olatunbosun noted that the refund was neither subject to any deduction
over debts nor having any local government component that will make the cash shared to Ekiti State to be less than N9.6b as published by the Federal Government. He said only statutory allocations were subject to deductions over state’s debts.
He said: “Fayose in his usual manner has during his last media chat denied that Ekiti share of the Paris Club Refund is N9.6b but N8.8b which he further reduced to N4.4b in his usual mathematical abracadabra to divert the money once again.
“We challenge Governor Fayose over this false claim as the Paris refund is not subject to any deduction. It is the state’s monthly allocation that is subject to deduction while the local government allocation is also not subject to deduction.
“It was Ekiti State Government that borrowed money from the Paris Club and not the local governments and so refunds cannot be made to local government.”
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