Governor Fayose has described the
payment of N5000 to poor people as a
propaganda
- The Ekiti governor claimed his people
have not received any payment from the
federal government
- He said he pays N10000 to poor people in
his state
Governor Ayodele Fayose has
challenged President Muhammadu
Buhari to publish the names of those
who have received the N5000 stipend
the federal government claimed it has
paid.
The federal government announced that
it has started disbursing the N5000
stipend which was promised to poor
Nigerians by President Buhari.
The Tribune reports that, the presidency
announced that the government has
begun the payment.
Laolu Akande, the Senior Special
Assistant on Media and publicity to Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed that
the implementation of the programme
was part of the Muhammadu Buhari
administration’s determined efforts to
touch the lives of Nigerians positively.
The Punch however reports that that
Governor Fayose challenged the
president to make public names of those
who have received as Ekiti people have
not received anything yet.
Fayose claimed only All Progressives
Congress (APC) states will agree that
they have received payment.
“A blind man will say it is when it gets
into my mouth that I will say you are
feeding me, not promises.”
He said the ruling party “should come to
the reality that Nigerians are hungry
and also angry and that Nigerians are
no longer interested in empty
promises.”
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Fayose accused the APC of focusing on
2019 rather than making the country
better and said the project was a World
Bank own with payment made since
2016.
The governor said he was already
paying poor people N10000 in Ekiti
without delay.
“Federal government’s N5,000 payment
to the poor was designed in a way that
the state governors are also involved
because they are to clear and present
prospective beneficiaries before
payments are made.”
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