N250m Dubai Trip: PDP Defends Fayose, Challenges APC

N250m Dubai Trip: PDP Defends Fayose, Challenges APC

Posted by Sylvester on Thursday, December 31, 2015 0

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti state has warned the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop lying and trying to manipulate themselves back into power. 

 The party denied allegations by the APC in Ekiti that the state governor, Ayodele Fayose’s trip to Dubai cost the government N250 million, Vanguard reports.

They challenged the APC and its leaders to approach the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), since their government in Abuja claimed to be fighting corruption.

The PDP in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti by Jackson Adebayo, the state publicity secretary of the party described the accusation as childish.

The statement read: “It is obvious that the economic devourers in the APC believed that the Fayose-led government must also be pilfering the state the way they did when they ran the state like a fiefdom for four years.

“The APC in Ekiti state should perish the thought of lying and manipulating themselves back to power as they did in 2010 because Ekiti people can no longer be conned by people whose only interest is the stealing of the collective wealth of the state.”

The party advised the APC to pay attention to their president, Muhammadu Buhari, who has travelled out of Nigeria 17 times in the last seven months, wasting billions of naira and also proposing to spend N18.1 billion to run the State House as against N6.6 billion budgeted for same in 2015 by the PDP-led government of Goodluck Jonathan.

“It is only a party of people who do not know any other thing apart from stealing that will believe that N250 million could be spent by the governor to travel abroad out of monthly income of N1.3 billion.

“However, we in the PDP are not surprised in anyway because people who came to power through falsehood, ruled for four years through falsehood and stole the state blind, using white elephant projects like planting of flowers, aristocratic governor’s lodge, pavilion, among others must have the belief that others are thieves and insensitive to the plight of the people like them,” the party said.

The PDP alleged that some APC leaders led by a top security officer who worked with former Governor Kayode Fayemi was at the Ado Ekiti Prisons on Monday to see those being tried for their alleged involvement in kidnappings in the state and the murder of former National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) boss, Omolafe Aderiye.