
According to a statement issued by Mallam Shehu Garba, the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Fayose’s comments were reckless. Information gathered says Shehu’s comments came on the heels of the governor’s speech at the graduation ceremony of College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, where Fayose demanded that the president addresses Nigerians on the state of the economy. Fayose categorically stated that the country’s economy will collapse in the next three months of President Buhari’s administration. The presidential spokesman said records of such past allocations showed “that the lowest-ever allocation to the three tiers was issued by the PDP-led Goodluck Jonathan administration.”
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“The governor equally knows full well that his party in government ruined the economy to the extent that workers in 27 states went for several months without salary. This crisis situation has now been reversed in nearly all the states. Governor Fayose is himself in line for the collection of his state’s bailout.
“Under the PDP federal government, ministries were not given overhead costs for five months while the capital budget was unpaid for six months in the run-up to the exit of the PDP administration. Is there anyone in that party with a moral justification to criticise the Buhari administration which is working hard to clean up the mess they (PDP) left behind?
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