The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has faulted claim by the immediate past Governor Kayode Fayemi that only September salary was outstanding.
In a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday by the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, the PDP drew the attention of the people of the state to what Otunba Niyi Adebayo, did when he also left office in 2003.
According to the PDP, Adebayo also left debts running into billions of naira when Governor Ayo Fayose took over from him in 2003.
“The facts are there for all to see and the people of the state saw what Otunba Niyi Adebayo did and what his APC fellow, Kayode Fayemi, also did. Adebayo took about N5 billion loans from the Capital Market and left workers in the state with backlog of salary arrears running to 16 months in some cases.
“His godson also came, followed the same line of the biblical prodigal son, took loans from Capital Market and other undisclosed sources, left state workers reeling under the yoke of unpaid salaries. In fact, Fayemi only came to repeat history as far as plunging the state into debts is concerned.
“He went further than his forebear in APC by mortgaging the future of the state because of projects that have no economic values. Whereas, in the history of the state, PDP-led governments have always left the state in healthy financial condition.
“We laughed when he came up with his feeble defence that he only left over N36 billion debts. He deliberately failed to mention commitments as far as workers’ salaries are concerned, he even lied that he only owed September salary. When did he pay that of August and July deductions that they squandered?
