Governor Ayo Fayose Sacks LG Education Secretaries

NIGERIA- Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has ordered the sack of all the local goverment education secretaries in the state.

A statement by the chief press secretary to the governor, Mr Idowu Adelusi in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday, said the sack takes immediate effect.

The affected secretaries were advised to hand over government property in their care to the authorities in their respective local government education authority.

Meanwhile, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the huge debts left behind by the former governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, as the trait of All Progressives Congress-led governments in the state.

The party, in a statement signed by its state publicity secretary, Pastor Kola Oluwawole in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, noted that the same scenario was experienced when Otunba Niyi Adebayo left office in 2003.

“There are facts 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 loan from the capital market and left workers in the state with backlog of salary arrears running to 16 months in some cases.

“They told Ekiti people that they only took N25 million from the capital market to execute projects that have no economic value or multiplier effects on the economy, yet they failed to disclose the numerous loans they took from various banks under the table deals.

“We thank God for the life of our governor, Ayo Fayose, who God used to uproot the evil of APC governments in 2003 and 2014.

It was Fayose who cleaned the mess the other time and he will, by God’s grace, do same this time around,” the party said.

But the immediate past government had in statement said that its commitment to the welfare of the citizens made it approached the Capital Market in 2011 where it raised a N25billion bond which it spent on infrastructure projects which are regenerative in nature. Of the sum, about N14 billion has been repaid through the laid down repayment regime. The outstanding balance of the bond money forms part of the N28billion debt profile according to the state’s audited accounts which was published in some national newspapers last week.