Fayemi, wife spent N100m on bedrooms, toilets -Ekiti

Ekiti Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has accused his predecessor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, of spending a whooping N50m on beds in his bedroom and that of his wife in the new Ekiti State Government House.

The governor claimed that between Fayemi and his wife, what was spent on their bedrooms, toilets and bathrooms would be in the region of N100m.
Fayose made the accusation in a statement ‘N3.3bn new Government House is Fayemi’s show of wickedness to Ekiti people’, issued in Ado-Ekiti by his Special Assistant on Information and Social Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka.

But Fayemi said the allegation sounded silly and was more of comedy of errors, advising Fayose to stop the “theatre of the absurd.”
Olayinka described the new Government House as an act of insensitivity to the plight of Ekiti people, many of whom, he claimed, could not afford to feed once in a day.
According to him, no progressive-minded Ekiti person will see the “out-of-this-world luxury provided with over N3.3bn borrowed fund for Fayemi, his wife and children and will not weep for the state and its people.”

Olayinka claimed that the bed on which Fayemi slept before he left government, costs over N30m while claiming that that of his wife costs over N20m.
“Between Fayemi and his wife, what was spent on their bedrooms, toilets and bathrooms will be in the region of N100m,” he added.
In his reaction, Fayemi’s media aide, Olayinka Oyebode, said the allegation “sounds silly and more of comedy of errors.”
Oyebode said, “I have taken a guided tour of that place and I don’t think I have seen such outcry.
“I don’t know where they got their figure from, it sounds absurd. I will advise them to stop this theatre of the absurd. Governorship is a serious business and I am appealing to them not to reduce it to a joke.

“They are turning Ekiti into a circus show and they should stop it. It is childish and puerile for them to have come up with that figure. There is nothing ostentatious about that lifestyle: the lodge is there as a property of the state.
“Whether Fayose stays there or not is his cup of tea. The new Government House  is a legacy building. Dr. Fayemi did not go with it to Isan-Ekiti; it is for the state.”