Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said that the school feeding programme of the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government must be done without the proposed 40 per cent counterpart funding from States.
He said the Federal Government was already looking for an excuse for the impending failure of the programme by asking states to contribute 40 per cent to the scheme.
The governor, who said his state was interested in the scheme, added that the school feeding programme was purely a contract between the APC-led Federal Government and Nigerians.
“Were the States consulted before the APC made the promise during the presidential campaign? How can you make a promise and win election on the basis of that promise and now expect States to help you to fulfil the promise? That to me is fraud!”
Fayose in a statement issued on Sunday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said Ekiti and other states in the country deserved to benefit from the programme without assisting the federal government with any 40 per cent counterpart funding.
“Apart from the fact that Ekiti State lacked the financial wherewithal to provide counterpart fund for such a programme, it is the duty of President Muhammadu Buhari and his APC that won election on the basis of their promise to give free meal to school pupils to fulfil the promise without placing any burden on other tiers of government.”
The governor said the APC should rather blame itself for failing to do a proper study on the practicability of the scheme before promising Nigerians instead of looking for who to blame for not fulfilling the school feeding promise.
“The federal government knows that 80 per cent of the states lack the financial will to be able to contribute the 40 per cent counterpart fund for the programme and the time the programme eventually fails, Nigerians will be told that it failed because States did not key in to it.
“As for us in Ekiti, we are interested in the programme because Nigeria belongs to all of us. But we won’t contribute any counterpart fund because the programme is solely an electoral promise of the APC and we were never consulted before the promise was made.
“We don’t even have the capability to make any financial contribution even if it is 10 per cent because our financial condition is such that we can’t even pay workers salary,” Fayose said. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Another "fabu" from the stable of President Fabuhari...more of it to come...Well,as events are unfolding...
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ReplyDeleteHow does this senseless comment of yours relate to the article above..
DeleteFayose is right........after you have make a promise you now want the state to assist you when most state cannot pay salary
ReplyDeleteAnd that is how osun state gov. Can not generate funds. Your party pronised, you now ask others to come and make contribution for what. If you don't know how to govern, vacate the post and go away. Brutality can not solve the problem.
ReplyDeleteFayose... Baba go give wona money for the scheme woooooooo.....
ReplyDeleteThen, the bail out fund for Ekiti state should be completely use for the program.
ReplyDeleteIf Fayose can not help FG in their responsibility, then FG should also do so
Fayose always wanting Buhari or his government to react. When will he learn he is not important in the grand scheme of the president's plans. It is always better to ignore a man like Fayose. If he likes he should join the program, it is his people that suffer.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lot of people are also not realising from Fayose's rant is that he is trying to defuse and distract Nigerian's from his lack of performance and looting. He criticises without bringing any solutions and yet many of us hail him as the mouth piece of the masses. His strategy is almost ingenious, Fayose is filling his bank accounts as he is ranting, mark my word!