Fayose Blasts Buhari Over N5000 Stipends, Says Ekiti Received No Money As Claimed
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described the payment of N5000 stipend to the poorest and most vulnerable in the country by the Federal Government, as a mere ‘propaganda’ by the All Progressives Congress led government.
Fayose said this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi.
His statement follows the announcement by the Federal Government of the commencement of the conditional cash transfer scheme to about one million poor and vulnerable Nigerians.
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The government in a statement on Monday had said, “though the sequence for the payment of the money would be operationally managed by NIBSS, beneficiaries in Borno, Kwara and Bauchi state have started receiving money.
“The other states in the first batch to commence the CCT payment are Cross River, Niger, Kogi, Oyo, Ogun, and Ekiti states.”
However, Fayose in the statement alleged that his state has not received any payment as announced by the federal government.
According to him, the states that have started receiving the payment were apparently APC-controlled states, as the governors cannot come out to disprove the payment.
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He claimed that the “Federal Government’s N5,000 payment to the poor was designed in a way that the state governors are also involved because they are to clear and present prospective beneficiaries before payments are made.
“A blind man will say it is when it gets into my mouth that I will say you are feeding me, not promises.”
Fayose said the APC government led by President Buhari should come to the reality that Nigerians are hungry and also angry and that the citizens are no longer interested in empty promises.
He further challenged the APC and Federal Government to publish the number of people receiving the stipend and the accounts of those receiving.
