Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has eventually opened up on the N252 billion he was accused of misappropriating by Ekiti Recovery Movement (ERM).

His Commissioner for Information, Mr. Lanre Ogunsuyi said; “Even at a time, we were getting as low as N1.5 billion when the wage bill was undulating between N2.5 and N2.7 billion. That is why we are paying in arrears.”

“It is worrisome that the government has been spending over 90 per cent of the allocation on payment of salaries and pensions and the fact that the allocations were too paltry accounted for why we have been unable to pay up”.

“Government has not been running any secret account. How do you think Governor Fayose has been able to construct the flyover, did dualisation in eleven councils and tarred roads in some towns even when allocation was not enough to pay salaries?”

“The governor was able to do all this through efficient and prudent management of our resources, I mean the ones we got internally and those from the federation account.”