The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, appears to have run himself into troubled waters over his alleged N1.5bn donation to the campaign fund of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari.
An Abuja-based civil society group, the Society for Rule of Law in Nigeria (SRLN), Thursday asked the former Ekiti governor to explain where he got the alleged N1.5bn from.
The group, in a statement issued in Abuja and signed by its National Coordinator, Dr. Chima Ubeku, said: “a N1.5bn donation from someone like Fayemi, who left two months salary of workers and deductions for cooperative societies unpaid is in bad faith and should be questioned.”
The statement said a message from APC NEWS Wednesday night had indicated that Fayemi allegedly transferred the N1.5bn from his account in a bank located along Liberation Square, Accra, Ghana.
The group alleged that the donation was allegedly made in order to place Fayemi at a vantage position for ministerial appointment if Buhari wins the February 14 Presidential election.
“Fayemi must tell Nigerians where he got that huge amount of money from. Is it from what he stole from the Ekiti State treasury?” the group however asked.
“How can someone who left office with August and September salaries of workers unpaid be making N1.5bn to Buhari’s campaign just because he wants to be minister?
“Most importantly, where is the morality in Buhari’s anti-corruption posture when he is funded with stolen fund?
“Fayemi must therefore explain where he got the N1.5bn from.”
