The Ekiti State branch of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged Governor Ayo Fayose to declare his assets.
The call was made by Ekiti APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun via a statement released on Tuesday, September 8, 2015.
The party also expressed worry at unconfirmed reports that Fayose had acquired properties in Ghana, Dubai, South Africa, Abuja, Ibadan, Banana Island and Magodo since assuming office nine months ago.
The statement reads:
“The governor must seize the opportunity of declaring his assets to douse speculations of his alleged funnelling of the state resources to his private enterprises abroad.”
“It is curious that he has not abused President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo after they declared their assets. Fayose’s loud silence on the President in this case is curious because the governor has never seen anything good in whatever the President does.”
“We are worried by the unconfirmed reports of primitive acquisitions by the governor who allegedly own properties in Ghana, Dubai, South Africa, Abuja, Ibadan and Banana Islands and Magodo in Lagos which were believed to have been acquired in the last nine months after he assumed office.”
“Our party is aware that Fayose had no visible means of income prior to October 16, 2014 when he became governor and the properties he owned in Ibadan and Lagos are subjects of litigation by the EFCC, which is probing the governor for misappropriation and diversion of N1.3b poultry project cash to personal use in 2005.”
“Fayose is alleged to be building a state-of-the-art hotel in Dubai after he became Ekiti governor and after he is also reported to have paid a whopping N722 million to himself as “arrears of his allowances” as governor during his first term on the strength of the Supreme Court judgment which nullified his impeachment.”
“Curiously too, Fayose has kept mute on various sums of money he has received on behalf of the state government, such as the N22 billion refund on Federal roads, N2billion ecological fund, N2billion micro credit fund, which he has diverted, N2.1 billion bailout NLNG fund, N9.6 billion bailout cash, N8.5 billion windfall received in June and an average of N3billion regular federal allocations he has been receiving since October 2014 till date.”
“We will stop at nothing to make sure that Fayose declares his assets openly so that we could remind him if he leaves any of his assets undeclared.”
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo publicly declared their assets on September 3.
Buhari also said that governors and ministers are required to declare their assets in compliance with Nigeria’s constitution.