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Ex-Gov Fayemi’s wife responds to allegations of donating N57.34m worth of drugs to Buhari’s campaign, Its a blatant Lie.
A group recently alleged that the wife of the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, donated drugs worth N57.34m to the campaign of the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari. The Ekiti Justice Group, which made the allegations, said that she sourced the drugs from an European Donor Agency in August last year for Ekiti Free Health Mission, but diverted it to the APC campaign in January 2015.
Responding to the allegations, Fayemi said that they are “baseless and shamelessly concocted by the propaganda arm of the PDP- led government in the state to tarnish the good image of the former administration in the state.” She said that no European Donor Agency or any donor for that matter ever supplied drugs to the Ekiti Free Health Mission throughout Dr Fayemi’s tenure in office.
Her statement which was signed by Olayinka Oyebode, the press secretary of the former governor insisted that Mrs. Fayemi never donated drugs to the Buhari campaign and was not even directly involved in the Ekiti Free Health Mission programme all through the time her husband was governor.
She called on Nigerians to disregard the allegations, “which are blatant lies issued on a daily basis by the government of Mr Ayodele Fayose, through the office of his Special Assistant on (mis)Information with the intent to divert attention from the government’s ineptitude, corruption and directionlessness.”
The statement lambasted the group which made the allegations – Ekiti Justice Group – saying that it exists only at the Information Unit of the Governor’s Office and that the aides of the Governor are the officials behind the “faceless group using different pseudonyms.”
“These aides of the Governor are the same people that came up with the lies that former Governor Fayemi made a donation of N1.5b to the APC Presidential campaign. They also went ahead to circulate leaflets containing that malicious allegation to civil servants during a meeting called by Governor Fayose with the workers in Ado-Ekiti, last week. They are also the same people behind the scurrilous Al-Hikmah advert campaigns in various national dailies.
“Those who unwittingly or deliberately help Mr Fayose spread this falsehood should know that appropriate legal steps are being taken against such libelous publications. Dr Fayemi is always ready to clarify any issue in relation to his time in office should such clarification be necessary. Only a discredited government like we currently have in Ekiti State would elevate falsehood to a state policy, all in the bid to mislead the people and cover up the misdeeds of the administration,” the statement.
