Fayose Collected N22bn Refund On FG Projects, APC Insists

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has insisted that Governor Ayodele Fayose collected N22 billion refunds on federal projects executed by former Governor Kayode Fayemi.

It challenged the governor to explain how he spent the refund and another N2 billion ecological fund he received from the Federal Government.

A statement by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, also faulted the governor’s claims on the cost per kilometer of roads constructed by Fayemi, saying‎ the former governor engaged contractors with the lowest cost without compromising the quality of the roads.

Saying that quality jobs were executed for Ekiti people without defaulting in salary payment, the party added that such roads and other infrastructure were incomparable with the ones executed by Fayose, which collapsed barely six months after commissioning.‎

The party said there was no truth in Fayose’s claim that the contractor paid for the dualisation of Ado-Ikere-Ondo State boundary abandoned the job.

“It was Fayose who cancelled the contract and directed the contractor to use the money he collected to do some roads in Bawa Estate area of Ado-Ekiti. Who does not know that Ado-Ikere-Ondo road boundary construction is costlier than Bawa Estate road? But the governor has not told Ekiti people the contract variation cost he collected from the contractor and the remaining was diverted to Afao-Ekiti, his town,” Olatubosun explained.

“His claim that Fayemi’s cost of road per kilometre is expensive is not only false but also ridiculous. The truth of the matter is that the cost of the roads per kilometre awarded by Fayemi’s government is the cheapest in the country, even cheaper than the then PDP-controlled Federal Government cost.

“It is an afterthought and diversionary for Fayose to now claim that the Federal Government did not approve federal roads constructed by the state and so no refund.”

Ekiti State Government has said it is being owed about N12.2 billion refunds on Federal Government roads it constructed.

In a statement issued on Wednesday by Special Assistant to Governor Ayodele Fayose on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka, the government said between 2004 and 2014, the state spent “a sum of N15, 720,513,024.08 on construction and rehabilitation of federal roads in the State, out of which N3.5bn was refunded.”

Giving the breakdown, the government said N1.5bn was refunded in November 2004 while N2bn was refunded in December 2007.

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