Fayose Blasts Buhari for Signing 2018 Budget in June …Accuses FG of withholding Paris Club refund to swing votes to APC


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Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said President Muhammadu Buhari should be ashamed that he signed 2018 budget in June instead of blaming the National Assembly for performing its constitutional duties of increasing the appropriation bill in line with its statutory oversight right.

Fayose asked: “The previous budgets that he agreed with the National
Assembly, what did he do with them? Where are the impacts of 2016 and 2017 budgets?”

The governor, who described those presenting the president as the only one knowledgeable about national issues as his greatest enemies, said: “In the mindset of President Buhari and his men, all Nigerians are wrong except him. That is the reason he feigned ignorance to the fact that the law did not say that the legislative arm of government must pass the budget as presented by the executive.”

In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Thursday by his Special
Assistant on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said: “President Buhari has become what can be termed as blame specialist who will always blame his failure on other people.

“As a military Head of State, he blamed former President Shehu
Shagari’s government. Since he assumed office, he has been blaming his predecessor. And now that he can’t get ordinary budget passed by the
National Assembly for over six months, he is blaming the legislative arm. When is he going to be man enough to stop his blame game?”

Fayose reminded the president of the 2016 ruling of Justice
Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja in which he declared that the National Assembly has the power to add, reduce, and review the budget. The judge said categorically that the National Assembly can increase or review upward, budget estimates laid before it by the executive.

:Trying to use the National Assembly as scape goat for his failure is a disservice to the principle of separation of powers, checks and balances,” he said.

Meanwhile, Fayose has accused the federal government of deliberately withholding the release of the Paris Club refund to states purposely to prevent Ekiti State from using the money to pay arrears of workers' salary before the July 14 governorship election.


This is just as the governor also warned the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) against stopping the collation of elections results midway, as it was done during the governorship election in Edo State.


Fayose, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi,
in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, said Ekiti and other states had been cleared to get the refund, but the federal government refused to release it to the states because of the state election as it did in Kogi State.


The governor said: "If it is released to other states without the inclusion of Ekiti, the people will suspect that the federal government of playing politics with it.  The federal government used that tactics in Kogi State to assist the APC candidate to win.


"I am using this forum to inform Ekiti people that the federal government is
punishing and depriving them of their entitlements because of politics. It thinks that if I am not able to pay the four months salaries owed the workers, they will vote for APC.”

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