Former Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi. Twitter
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti, Kayode Fayemi, has challenged Governor Ayodele Fayose to a public debate on Ekiti funds.
Fayemi mentioned the 800-page handover notice he personally gave to Fayose when he assumed workplace contained how the funds he obtained whereas in workplace had been managed.
The fast previous Minister of Mines and Steel Development spoke at a press briefing on Sunday after the inauguration of the state marketing campaign council.
“I challenge Fayose to meet me in a debate and let us discuss what we did with the resources that we held in trust for Ekiti, that way we will know who is a better manager of Ekiti resources or who is a prodigal son,” he mentioned.
Fayemi said this whereas responding to an allegation by the Ekiti state Peoples Democratic Party’s Chairman, Gboyega Oguntuase, that the previous governor mismanaged N165bn allocation aside from different grants as governor between 2010 and 2014.
Oguntuase had in a assertion in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday puzzled why Fayemi nonetheless took N25bn bond and N35bn industrial loans with nothing to indicate for the funds.