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Incumbent Ekiti state governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has disclosed that his predecessor, Kayode Fayemi betrayed his party the APC and its national leader, Bola Tinubu who helped him to power.

The governor made this declaration on Thursday, August 20 by stating that his administration is devastating the legacies of huge debt, unpaid salaries, white elephant projects, bad governance and corruption left behind by the APC-led administration of Kayode Fayemi, his predecessor.

Fayose, said this while reacting to Fayemi’s interview in some newspapers in which the ex-governor said that his legacy was being destroyed. Fayose said no responsible administration will sustain a legacy of over N86 billion debt that was sustained on projects with no straight bearing on the welfare of the people.

In a statement issued by Lere Olayinka, Fayose’s media aide, the incumbent governor said it was essential for Fayemi’s negative legacies to be destroyed, and that even in the APC, his legacy of betrayal of Senator Bola Tinubu, the man who made him governor is being destroyed.

Fayose's media aid said Fayemi has been ostracised by those who assisted him to office because he has betrayed all of them, including Tinubu. He added that the state will never be governed by those who will borrow billions of naira to plant flowers and create comfort for themselves alone.

Fayose insisted that he would not sustain the legacy of serial betrayal of benefactors. Fayose pointed that if Fayemi served Ekiti and its people well, he wouldn't have been roundly defeated in all the 16 local councils in the state in the 21 June, 2014 governorship election and his party wouldn't have been defeated 16 to 0 in the presidential, National Assembly and House of Assembly elections. The media aid added that even Fayemi's own party men described his electoral defeat as the worst in Nigeria.

Fayose pointed out that Fayemi chose to close down two universities established by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, government of Segun Oni and abandoned the Oba Adejugbe General Hospital, Ado-Ekiti when he became governor, claiming that the state could not fund more than one university.

He went further by saying the same Fayemi, who said Ekiti had no money to fund more than one university preferred to take N25 billion bond to plant flowers that never germinated up till now and build a new governor’s lodge, civic centre, pavilion and execute other irrelevant projects. Fayose claimed that furniture alone, in the N3.3 billion governor’s lodge that Fayemi built for himself and his wife cost N604.9 million and that such legacy of profligacy cannot be sustained in Ekiti.

His words: “We are sorry to tell him that we won’t sustain such legacy of waste. Even vehicles bought for traditional rulers and political appointees, his government did not pay and uncompleted Oba Adejugbe General Hospital and State Pavilion were commissioned with fanfare. Today, Ekiti State is under the yoke of debt, courtesy of Fayemi’s mismanagement of the state resources and what we are destroying are those legacies of mis-governance he left behind.

“One bad news that we must however tell Fayemi is that we won’t only destroy his legacy of mis-governance and betrayal in Ekiti, we will also make sure that economic devourers like him will never taste power in the state.”