By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz
Abuja
By Agboola Bayo
Ibadan
Ekiti state Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has declared that he is only opposing President Muhammadu Buhari’s style of governance and not his personality.
Featuring on an Ibadan based independent radio station Fresh FM 105.9 live interview programme, the governor insisted that he had no personal grudge against President Buhari.
According to the governor, his campaign against the election of President Buhari during the 2015 electioneering campaign was mainly to caution electorate in Nigeria as well as safeguard the country’s growing democracy.
Fayose declared that contrary to the misinterpretations of his 2015 campaign against Buhari’s, there was never a time he wished him dead, but that his messages were misinterpreted by those seeing it as if he was wishing General Buhari dead with those messages.
“I never wish President Buhari dead during the 2015 presidential electioneering campaign. I have nothing against President Buhari, but if something is not proper, I just have to say it as I see it”.
Speaking further, he asked the federal government to ban all the 36 state governors in the country from burrowing money, taken loans or bonds payable beyond their tenure of office, saying, such a ban would go a long way in preventing newly elected governors from inheriting huge debt “as we are now experiencing in most of the states in the country where 27 of the 36 states can no longer pay their workers monthly salaries”.
Fayose said for example, “the inability of his administration in Ekiti state to pay its workers salaries as at when due was as a result of the huge debts his administration inherited from the immediate past administration of Dr Kayode Fayemi”.
The administration of Fayemi allegedly took N31billion commercial loan and N21billion bond while the agreement that Ekiti state government would be paying the loan till year 2022 and 2036, respectively and that since his assumption of office in 2014 as the Ekiti state governor, over N1 billion was being removed monthly from the state allocation to repay the loan.