Fayose accuses Buhari of releasing N12.5bn to APC for Kogi election

• November 17, 2015

Gov. Ayodele Fayose

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has accused the federal government of releasing the sum of N12.5 billion from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) as donation to Kogi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to enable the party perpetrate rigging even as Lokoja the state capital stood still for Governor Idris Wada monday.
But the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, dismissed the allegation, saying if those behind the accusation had allowed themselves some measure of honesty, they would have realised that there was no such impunity under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Fayose who said the President Buhari administration was a resemblance of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration where the rule of law was not respected, stressed that he was not surprised based on their military background.
The governor stated this at the confluence stadium in Lokoja during the grand finale of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally, adding that looking critically at the administration of the APC at the centre, people have discovered that the Buhari-led government does not posse is an iota of respect for human rights, saying the president only concentrated on chasing PDP members on allegations of corruption when many of his men who surround him are facing trial for gross corrupt practices.
He asked where President Buhari was when the APC cleared the former governor of the Kogi State, Alhaji Abubakar Audu, to contest the governorship of the state when he (Audu) has avalanche of corrupt charges hanging on his neck in the last 12 years.
He called on the president to carefully look around himself before running after other people, saying the nation belongs to Nigerians just as he pointed out that every citizen had equal right.