Fayose Blasts Buhari for Spending N548m to Hire Malayasian Consultants …Says he won’t work against S’ West over PDP chairmanship

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has questioned the rationale behind the federal government’s hiring of consultants from Malaysia with the sum of N458 million to help Nigeria build her economic capacity.

According to him, “The federal government action is a clear vote of no confidence on President Muhammadu Buhari’s government and economic experts in the country.”

 “It is shameful that Nigeria, which produced the likes of African Development Bank (ADB) President, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina; Treasurer and Vice President of the World Bank, Mrs. Aruma

Otteh; Independent Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered Plc,

United Kingdom, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Professor of Political

Economy, Pat Utomi, among others is now paying people from Malaysia to revive its economy.”

In a statement issued on Sunday by the Special Assistant to the governor on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said: “Out-sourcing consultancy for the conduct of study that would aid the implementation of the National Economic Recovery and Growth Plan

(ERGP) is tantamount to telling Nigerians that they all lack capacity to govern their own country.”

He asked: “How can you hire foreign consultants that would work for 13

weeks to conduct a study on how to revive the economy of a country like Nigeria and pay the consultant N458 million?”

 “It was the cluelessness of the Buhari’s government that made the exchange rate that was N197 to $1 as at May 29, 2015, rise to as much as N500 to $1 before it came down to about N370 to $1. Today, the official rate is N305 to $1.

Meanwhile, Fayose, has advocated the conduct of primary election for the national chairmanship aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest geopolitical zone, so as to have a solid front in the coming national convention of the party.

He stated this yesterday night when the former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, visited him at the Government House, Ado-Ekiti.

In a statement issued by the Governor's Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu

Adelusi, Fayose said: "We need to get a consensus candidate from our zone to clinch the post. We should not go to the convention a divided house.

“I see nothing bad if we get all the delegates from the Southwest to

vote in a shadow election for their preferred candidate. Then whoever emerges would be supported by all during the convention.

"If we propose that and majority of the aspirants agree, whoever does not agree would be seen as having no follower at all. I can't work against you or your interest. We have too many aspirants from our zone and it is not only us that will decide who becomes the national chairman of our party, it will be decided by every member from across the country.