Chinese Loan: Fayose Exposes APC, Oyegun, Oni over Sheer Hypocrisy
The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose,
today advised the All
Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman,
Chief John Odigie
Oyegun; his Deputy, Segun Oni, and others who
criticised him over his opposition to the alleged borrowing of $2 billion loan
by the federal government to stop displaying hypocrisy in the interest of the
nation.
Fayose said his reaction to the attempt by
President Muhammadu Buhari to borrow the money was done out of national
interest and not because of
his personal animosity against the president, adding
thatwhat the APC did against him was tantamount to hypocrisy.
He described President Buhari's non-signing of any
direct loan agreement with the Chinese Government during his visit as a vindication
of the governor's position, maintaining that: "What Nigeria needs is the
collaboration of the government of China in the area of technology transfer,
rather than granting loan that will be mismanaged under the guise of building
infrastructure."
In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti by his
Special Assistant on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said: "People like
Oyegun, Oni and Prof Itse Sagay lack moral rights
to complain even if Buhari is called whatever names because they never
complained when as a sitting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was called
unprintable names by APC stalwarts and leaders."
The governor said he only exercised his rights as a
Nigerian, asking: "Where were the likes of Oyegun, Oni, Sagay and others
when APC promoted crude politics and anti-Nigeria posturing to an unprecedented
level when Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in power?
"It is on record that APC wrote to the United
States of America not to sell arms to Nigeria, reported the country to the
European Union, United Nations and went to the
bizarre extent of reporting the then Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika,
to the International Criminal Court (ICC), not for committing the kind of genocide
committed against the Shiite Muslims in Zaria and Agatus in Benue State, but
for killing Boko Haram insurgents.
"On one occasion, a certain APC stalwart
insinuated that Jonathan's visit to Chad was to plan further attacks on the
North, tweeting that 'Boko Haram: Jonathan visits Chadian President Idris Deby
for the second time in two months, to plan further attacks.'
"It is also on record that instead of lending
his voice to the federal government efforts to dislodge Boko Haram insurgents,
President Buhari opted to describe the clampdown on Boko Haram as injustice
against the North. He went on to accuse the government of killing and
destroying the insurgents’ houses while the Niger Delta militants were given
special treatment by the government.
"Even when Oni was Ekiti State governor as a
PDP member, Action
Congress (AC) as APC then wrote against his
government move to obtain a N5 billion loan. Isn't it then funny that because
he is now in APC, the same Oni is now against Fayose doing the same thing done
against him by the APC elements in Ekiti State?
"Isn't it also funny that in Oyegun, Oni,
Sagay among others political dictionaries of hypocrisy that it was right for
APC stalwart to have reported the federal government to ICC but wrong for
Fayose to have
written to the Chinese government on the federal
government's plan to mortgage the future of Nigeria and its people?"
The governor's spokesperson said since the federal
government claimed it has recovered and still recovering trillions of naira
allegedly looted from the treasury, there was no need to borrow money from anywhere
to finance the 2016 Budget.
“With the $200 billion they claimed is coming from
Dubai, $700 million
cash they said was found in Diezani Alison Madueke’s
house, N3 trillion said to have been saved from the Treasury Single Account (TSA)
and N4.5 trillion the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) said it will
generate this year, what then is the rationale behind the federal government
seeking any loan?
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