Ekiti 2022: Fayemi shops for N12bn loan to pay outstanding workers salaries -Group|Ojaomonews
...woos workers for Oyebanji
....woos workers for Oyebanji
Ekiti State governor, Dr John Kayode Fayemi, has decided to push the state further into the abyss of debt as his government has allegedly indicated interest to borrow N12 billion to pay outstanding workers' salary arrears purposely to woo them to vote for the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Mr Biodun Oyebanji.
The Ekiti Build Back Better (EBBB), an international pan-Ekiti movement, campaigning for the election of Asiwaju Segun Oni, disclosed this in a press release issued by its spokesman, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday.
According to Adelusi, Governor Fayemi allegedly summoned emergency meeting of the APC bigwigs and government officials to Ishan-Ekiti penultimate Sunday to deliberate over the entry of Segun Oni to the state whose long motorcade and the large turnout of people that welcomed him was unprecedented, and, of course, most embarrassing to the ruling party and the governor himself.
According to an inside source, the governor, who presided over the meeting, had asked the people in Yoruba, "kilo nlo ni gboro?" meaning, "what is going on in the town?"
The people at the meeting allegedly told the governor the plain truth that the majority of Ekiti people, including the workers, have decided to follow Segun Oni.
A particular APC leader allegedly told the governor, "Your Excellency, the town is not smiling at all, to make the matter worse, the workers will capitalise on nonpayment of outstanding salary arrears and entitlements of the pensioners not to support our candidate."
Thereafter, the governor asked what could be done to arrest the situation and the people advised the government to look for money anywhere to pay the salary arrears and pensioners' entitlements before the election which the governor has accepted.
However, some of those who attended the meeting doubted if the step to be taken could hold water saying, "the workers and pensioners have lost faith in the APC government, due to many failed promises since 2018 when this administration came into power."
They stressed further that "the workers would think if not because the governorship election was around the corner, the government would not contemplate paying what it is owing to the workers."
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