. Says Fayemi lied over cash donation to victims
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has described the attempt by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to politicise the last week’s fire outbreak at a petrol station in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, as wicked, animalistic and inhuman.
It also described as “shameless lie” the party’s claim that the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, donated cash to victims of the fire outbreak.
The PDP, which accused the APC of blocking relief materials from being given to the victims by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said, “They control the federal government and NEMA is a federal agency, what efforts have they made to secure relief materials for victims of the fire incident?”
Ekiti State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Jackson Adebayo, stated that only one Sunday Omotoso,
Ward 4, Ado Local Government chairman of the APC was given N50, 000 and two motorcycles out of the many victims of the fire incident.
The PDP, which also described claim by the APC that volunteer
paramedics and firefighters employed by the APC government of Dr Fayemi were sacked by the Fayose’s government as false.
It stated: “The volunteers know that the government that engaged them did not pay them for months and it was the same APC government that sacked them.” The party said that if the APC governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, had acted promptly on the Southern Kaduna killings as done by Governor Ayodele Fayose when he heard about the fire outbreak, those Nigerians that were slaughtered like goats in Southern Kaduna would have lived.
“Even though we do not expect anything different from the APC because the party is always desirous of making political capital out of everything no matter how painful it is to those involved, we do not expect that the party will take its wickedness to this ridiculous level.”
