BEVERLY HILLS, February 16, (THEWILL) – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State says the All Progressives Congress, APC leadership is responsible for the alleged seizure of the January allocation to the state because Ekiti APC has assumed the position of the spokesperson of Federal Ministry of Finance, explaining why Ekiti state stopped getting funds from the Budget Support Facility, BSF.
The party described the action as not only anti-people but also a deliberate attempt to undermine Ayo Fayose’s government and make Ekiti state ungovernable ahead of the 2018 governorship election.
The APC in Ekiti State had on Wednesday stated that there was no truth in Governor Ayo Fayose’s claim that the federal government had withheld the state monthly allocation, saying what was withheld was the special funds approved by the Federal Government for budget support intervention in states.
The party accused Fayose of lying and instigating Ekiti people against President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC-led Federal Government, adding that he was blaming the federal government for his inability to pay workers.
But in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Jackson Adebayo, the state PDP said the APC had ignorantly exposed itself with the statement to the extent that there is no need for any other explanation that Nigeria has become a despotic state where fascism now thrives.
Alleging that the APC-led Federal Government does not care about the welfare of the people it governed, Adebayo said, “It’s only in a despotic state you can think of government playing politics with the welfare of the governed, while decorating governance with blind vengeance as it operates now with the APC- led federal government”.
He stressed that it had been vindicated by the various alarms that it had raised in the past that the leadership of the APC had perfected plans to wreak havoc in the state through dastardly actions that would undermine the government of the state, as part of its quest to wrestle power from the PDP in 2018.
According to him, the recent gathering of leaders of APC in the house of the Special Adviser on Political Affairs to the President, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, is one of a series of meetings where all nefarious plans against the interest of Ekiti people are being regularly orchestrated and hatched.
The PDP added that the party held at the end of the meeting, was actually to celebrate the seizure of the allocation to the state.
It further stated that the statement issued by the APC on the withheld allocation was preconceived and even prepared before the action of the federal government, as all the members of the party had the premonition of the antics of their leaders who had boasted to them on various occasions that from January 2017, Ekiti State would not receive allocation again.
“The Ekiti PDP condemns this wickedness masterminded by the APC to stifle life out of the people of the state,” the statement averred.
