Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has denied receiving N4.7 billion allocation for the month of June as alleged by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The governor in a broadcast on the state radio and television on Monday claimed that his government received a net allocation of N2.5 billion from the Federation Account after N900 million was deducted at source to service the state debts.
Fayose, who accused the opposition of trying to make a political capital out of the state allocation, added that the 16 local governments in the state received N2.01 billion.
He accused the APC of plunging the state into debts, saying that has created problems for his administration.
The APC had in a statement on Sunday claimed that the Fayose administration got the sum of N4.7 billion from the Federation Account, insisting that was enough to pay four out of the six months salaries owed workers in the state.
Fayose said: “Those peddling unfounded rumours were given their own opportunity to lead the state and they left the state in huge debts. Their failed, white elephant projects litter the state.
“The uncompleted civic centre and the new Governor’s Office along NTA Road where they only scrapped the ground were few examples of their failed projects in the state. The pavilion was uncompleted and left in a state of disrepair.
“I have always revealed whatever comes to the state as allocations. There is nothing to hide as even the federal authorities do publish the allocations in daily newspapers.
“Their mischief has failed and by God’s grace they cannot defeat me. Let them continue to delude themselves, Ekiti people are no fools, they know the truth and those who stand for the truth.”
The governor also used the occasion to announce that the state government’s social security scheme where 1,000 people would be paid N5,000 monthly would soon take off.
He gave the assurance that the money would be paid directly into people’s accounts and not given to anybody to disburse.
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