Fayemi Vows To Probe Oni’s Administration

Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has expressed his administration’s readiness to probe the three-and-halfyear tenure of his predecessor, Chief Olusegun Oni, who was removed from office by an Appeal Court judgement on October 15, 2010.
Fayemi said large-scale fraud was perpetrated by the Oni-led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, government in the state before it was removed from office for illegally occupying that position.
The governor spoke at the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, state party secretariat, where a mammoth crowd of top government functionaries, party leaders and supporters had gathered to welcome him back to the state on Saturday following his victory at the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court had last Friday thrown out Oni’s appeal seeking a review of the 2010 judgement that removed the PDP administration from power.
Fayemi told the mammoth crowd of top government functionaries, ACN leaders and supporters who had gathered at the state party secretariat to welcome him back to the state that he would institute a probe into the management of the state finances under Oni.
He said: “With the conclusion of this case, they (the ousted government) should be ready to account for how they stole our money, the contracts they used to siphon our money and all the micro-credit money they stole.”
But Oni, in a swift response, challenged Fayemi to make good his threat to probe his administration between 2007 and 2010 through the constitution of an independent probe panel.
A statement by the former governor’s media aide, Mr. Lere Olayinka, in Ado Ekiti yesterday said; “This time around, Fayemi must make real his threat and if he does not, we will go to court to compel him to do so.
However, he must not be the one to appoint those who will carry out the probe because the finances of the government during his own tenure must also be probed.”
Fayemi had said the victory would serve as a tonic for better performance and an opportunity to sustain good governance being enjoyed in the state, expressing appreciation to the people for demonstrating their support for his administration.