Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Kayode Fayemi at the weekend exchanged invective over alleged sale of the state’s Governor’s Lodge in Abuja.
The opposition PDP had in a statement in Ado-Ekiti, signed by the Secretary of the PDP Caretaker Committee in Ekiti, Diran Odeyemi, accused the governor of selling the building to an undisclosed investor, an action the party described as an act of financial recklessness and mis-governance.
But Fayemi, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications, Segun Dipe, denied the allegation, describing it as spurious and a monumental falsehood that lacked content of validity.
He said that his administration was just carrying out reconstruction of the lodge, having been allegedly abandoned throughout the administration of former Governor Ayodele Fayose, thus becoming inhabitable.
Governor Fayemi told the opposition and those he branded as ill-informed propagandist “to savour the freedom of information law of the state to investigate these facts, instead of embarking on a wild goose chase.”