Group Asks Fayose To Beg Fayemi Over SUBEB Fund Theft Allegation
Integrity Leadership Organisation,
has asked Governor Ayodele Fayose to tender public apology to his predecessor, who is also the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, over a
malicious allegation that Fayemi stole the state N852m counterpart fund in Access Bank, thus denying the state to benefit from the UBEC facility to improve education in public schools in the state.
It also asked the governor to apologise to Ekiti people for misleading them for a long time in "his mischief to lie against an innocent man".
The demand by the NGO followed revelations contained in a new publication just making its debut, Western Standard newspaper, which published a detailed report of a secret panel raised by Fayose to probe Fayemi over Subeb fund secured as loan from Access Bank. The five-man panel was chaired by the Oluyin of Iyin-Ekiti, Oba Ademola Ajakaye. Other members are the Executive Chairman of SUBEB, Senator Bode Ola; Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Owoseni Ajayi; the state Accountant General, Mrs O.O. Owolabi; and a Deputy Director, Felix
Ehinafe.
The panel had in its report dated December 2, 2015, exonerated Fayemi from accessing the Subeb N853m counterpart fund secured from Access Bank to fund public schools projects, saying that the bank indicated that it took the money back to its vault when the government failed to indicate repayment terms as demanded in the loan talks contrary to Fayose and his aides' public declarations that Fayemi embezzled the money.
In a statement by its Ekiti State Coordinator, Lekan Oyediran, the group said Fayose's apology became inevitable against the backdrop of misleading information to the public to maliciously put the integrity of an innocent man in the mud, including taking "Ekiti people and workers for a ride for a long time to blame an innocent man for his failure to meet the needs of the people and pay workers' salaries".
Condemning the governor for what it described as a "wicked lie", the group queried:"Why did Fayose fail to let Ekiti people know that he had earlier constituted a secret panel and in its report, there is nowhere it was stated that Fayemi looted money.
"Access Bank withdrew its money because repayment terms were not agreed upon after Fayose as Governor-elect wrote to the bank never to grant Fayemi the facility, vowing never to honour repayment agreement.
"Fayose is notorious for blackmailing prominent Nigerian leaders, such
as the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, over which he has been dragged to the court.
"It is high time Fayose was cautioned to let him know that destroying other people's reputation is not an art of governance but only shows somebody who has nothing to offer his people other than theatrics and
that only people of shady character use blackmail as a way of life.
"Fayose should be reminded that the exalted position of the governor,
which he has dragged in the mud, is not his exclusive preserve as many
other Ekiti indigenes will be governors after him."
The group wondered why the governor did not make the panel and its
report public, noting that even if the governor was not satisfied with
the report, he would have said so publicly and constitute another panel
instead of resorting to mischief to damage the integrity of an innocent
man he considered a political foe.
malicious allegation that Fayemi stole the state N852m counterpart fund in Access Bank, thus denying the state to benefit from the UBEC facility to improve education in public schools in the state.
It also asked the governor to apologise to Ekiti people for misleading them for a long time in "his mischief to lie against an innocent man".
The demand by the NGO followed revelations contained in a new publication just making its debut, Western Standard newspaper, which published a detailed report of a secret panel raised by Fayose to probe Fayemi over Subeb fund secured as loan from Access Bank. The five-man panel was chaired by the Oluyin of Iyin-Ekiti, Oba Ademola Ajakaye. Other members are the Executive Chairman of SUBEB, Senator Bode Ola; Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Owoseni Ajayi; the state Accountant General, Mrs O.O. Owolabi; and a Deputy Director, Felix
Ehinafe.
The panel had in its report dated December 2, 2015, exonerated Fayemi from accessing the Subeb N853m counterpart fund secured from Access Bank to fund public schools projects, saying that the bank indicated that it took the money back to its vault when the government failed to indicate repayment terms as demanded in the loan talks contrary to Fayose and his aides' public declarations that Fayemi embezzled the money.
In a statement by its Ekiti State Coordinator, Lekan Oyediran, the group said Fayose's apology became inevitable against the backdrop of misleading information to the public to maliciously put the integrity of an innocent man in the mud, including taking "Ekiti people and workers for a ride for a long time to blame an innocent man for his failure to meet the needs of the people and pay workers' salaries".
Condemning the governor for what it described as a "wicked lie", the group queried:"Why did Fayose fail to let Ekiti people know that he had earlier constituted a secret panel and in its report, there is nowhere it was stated that Fayemi looted money.
"Access Bank withdrew its money because repayment terms were not agreed upon after Fayose as Governor-elect wrote to the bank never to grant Fayemi the facility, vowing never to honour repayment agreement.
"Fayose is notorious for blackmailing prominent Nigerian leaders, such
as the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, over which he has been dragged to the court.
"It is high time Fayose was cautioned to let him know that destroying other people's reputation is not an art of governance but only shows somebody who has nothing to offer his people other than theatrics and
that only people of shady character use blackmail as a way of life.
"Fayose should be reminded that the exalted position of the governor,
which he has dragged in the mud, is not his exclusive preserve as many
other Ekiti indigenes will be governors after him."
The group wondered why the governor did not make the panel and its
report public, noting that even if the governor was not satisfied with
the report, he would have said so publicly and constitute another panel
instead of resorting to mischief to damage the integrity of an innocent
man he considered a political foe.
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