Stop singing old song of blame, tell Nigerians what your govt did, Fayose tells Osinbajo

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has carpeted the Vice President,
Prof Yemi Osinbajo, on his continuous complaints about alleged corruption
in the immediate past Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government, saying;
“Nigerians are now more interested in what the government has done to make
life more meaningful for them and not what the previous governments did or
failed to do. Today, the most difficult question any student can be asked
to answer in an examination is to list just five landmark achievements of
the government in which Prof Osinbajo is the Vice President.”

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The governor, who said Corruption has become more endemic in the present
All Progressives Congress (APC) government added that; “If the Vice
President can look around himself with honest eyes, he will see majority of
those who called the shots during the previous PDP governments that he
claimed mismanaged the country’s resources holding sensitive positions in
the present government. Today, even prosecution witnesses are suddenly
disappearing in corruption cases involving those who have decamped to the
APC and properties once seized are being returned to them. Obviously, PDP
has purged itself of corrupt elements in its fold and offloaded them to the
APC.”

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In a statement issued on Friday, by the Special Assistant to the governor
on Public Communications and New Media, he said he was beginning to have a
second thought on the Vice President’s claim to be a pastor, asking; “Is he
truly a pastor? A pastor does not go about playing to the gallery and
defending falsehood. Isn’t it a disgrace for a pastor of the Redeemed
Church in particular to be an agent of falsehood?”

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Governor Fayose said instead of going about exposing his hypocrisy, Prof
Osinbajo should be telling Nigerians what happened to the report of those
probe panels that he headed. How many
of those members of the APC indicted by his Probe Panel have been charged
to court? What happened to those involved in the fraudulent reinstatement
of wanted ex-Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms,
Abdulrasheed Maina?

The governor said; “To me, it is time for Prof Osinbajo to say something
new and stop playing to the gallery because he is expected to know better.
Even if the President does not know, he should know that Nigerians are
tired of this directionless government that keeps blaming its predecessors
for its inability to prepare even budget.

“Even though I have great respect for the Vice President, but of recent; I
am constrained to begin to have a rethink. As a Professor and Pastor,
methinks he should be a light in this government of darkness, and the
engine room of the government. But shamefully, he goes about saying things
that are not true.

“Despite being a Professor of Law, the Vice President defended EFCC Acting
Chairman, Ibrahim Magu that was indicted of corruption by the Department of
State Service, an agency under the President, by saying that Magu do not
need the National Assembly to clear him. He is always jumping to defend
what is indefensible in this government.”

While challenging the Vice President to list the government’s achievements,
Governor Fayose said; “It was under three years that PDP government solved
communication problems in Nigeria by providing Global System for Mobile
Communications (GSM) that has made it possible for Nigerians to use
internet, social media and even bank in the comfort of their homes.

“Also, it was under three years that the PDP government of Dr Goodluck
Jonathan established nine federal universities, 127 Almajiri schools, 34
new Colleges of Education, among several others. Exchange rate was kept at
N197 and petrol was sold at N87 per litre while a bag of rice remained at
N7, 000.

“It is almost three years; Prof Osinbajo should tell Nigerians what their
government did and stop blame-game please.

“Most importantly, if the Vice President has evidence of corruption against
anyone that served in the previous governments and the present, he should
be bold enough to present the evidence to the court at a proper trial, not
at public functions because alleged corruption cases are not tried at
social functions.”