The last seems not to have been heard between the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Ekiti State and the former governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose over the deplorable condition of the Ado-Akure road as the party on Tuesday threatened to report former governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged termination of N400 million contract earmarked for the rehabilitation of the road.
Fayose had last week described the road as a death trap calling on the federal government to urgently commenced work to save commuters from death and criminals on the road.
Speaking to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Ade Ajayi alleged that the former governor in 2014 upon assumption as governor terminated the contract for the rehabilitation of the road.
While describing Fayose’s outburst on the condition of the road as unfortunate, he advised the governor to explain the reasons for the termination of the contract or he would be dragged to the anti-graft agency.
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He said, “The APC as a responsible and patriotic party will drag the former governor to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission if he fails to give a satisfactory explanation about the money. He should shut up if he could not explain the whereabouts of the money.
“We are not accusing the former governor Fayose of embezzlement, but he must explain why he terminated Ado- Akure road contract. The public wants to know whether he terminated that contract for Afao road because the Ado-Akure road is very germane to our economy in Ekiti.
“The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the federal government, had shown interest to reconstruct the road. Why was the former governor now lamenting? We were able to decode that he had an ulterior motive, which was to dent the image of the governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
“When we asked him about how he spent the money, he dodged the question and we were baffled because we expected him to say the truth. All Ekiti and members of the public knew that Fayose was responsible for the bad state of the road by revoking the contract after the contractor had mobilised to site.
“Why would a person who was responsible for the deplorable state of the road now be lamenting? We are baffling over this? He should tell us where the money went rather than lamenting. Our people must be careful with the politics he was playing,” he said.
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But replying further, Fayose added: “if they have any evidence that I have committed any financial infraction as governor, they should inform the EFCC
“They are coming up with lies that somebody earmarked N400 million. If Fayemi earmarked N400 million, why didn’t he use the money to fix the road? He spent four years from 2010 to 2014, so for four years, all he could do was to earmark money.
“The dualised portion of Ado – Ikere Road was rehabilitated by Fayose when he was governor. Fayose also extended the dualisation to Ikere Roundabout, if PDP was not robbed in the 2018 election, the arrangement was for that road to have been dualised to Amoye Grammar School, Ikere Ekiti.
“By now, what have they done? Fayemi is running to two years in office now, what have they done? The roads are there, APC is in government in Ondo State, APC is in government in Ekiti State, they cannot put resources together and make the road useable.”
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