The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state on Tuesday asked Governor Seyi Makinde to give details of funds and food items donated to the state by the federal government to cushion the effects of hardship on the populace following the removal of fuel subsidy by the Bola Tinubu administration.
APC in a statement made available to journalists by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Comrade Olawale Sadare, berated the PDP administration in the state for deliberately withholding information relating to the receipt, distribution and management of funds and food items delivered to Oyo state government.
The party pointed out that “virtually all the states of the federation have declared the receipt of, at least, two billion naira out of the five billion which federal government has earmarked as funds to be paid to the poorest of the poor through the states”.
“Last week, neighbouring Osun and Kwara states acknowledged the payment of the sum of two billion naira to their purse but Gov. Makinde kept this away from the public knowledge”, it said.
Oyo APC added, ” For about six weeks now, the whereabout of the three thousand bags of rice which Gov. Makinde got from Abuja remains unknown to the people of the state and there are indications that these have been diverted the same way they did with Covid-19 relief materials presented by federal government, corporate organizations and individual philanthropists”.
“We also put it to Gov. Makinde to explain the reason behind his order on local government council chairmen to allegedly transfer (to the state government account) the two tranches of N56 million paid to their council accounts between August 16 and 18 this year by the federal government as the shares of the third tier of government”
APC alleged further that ” The 33 local government councils in the state got a total of N3.696b but they could not utilize a dime from the funds for the purpose which the money was meant to serve.”