Former Ekiti state first lady denies donation of drug for buhari campaign

The attention of the Wife of the immediate
past governor of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi
Fayemi has been drawn to an allegation by
a faceless group, operating under the
unregistered name : Ekiti Justice Group
(EJG) - that she donated drugs worth
N57.34m to the campaign of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential
candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari.
The so-called EJG claimed among other things
that the purported drugs was sourced from a
European Donor Agency last year August for
Ekiti Free Health Mission, but was diverted for
the APC campaign in January, 2015.
Ordinarily, it wouldn’t have been necessary to
dignify the spurious allegations of the group
with a response coming on the heels of an
earlier false claim about the Governor's so-
called donation to the Buhari campaign.
However, for the sake of the general public and
gullible readers who might have been deceived
into believing the malicious publication, it is
important to state as follows:
That the allegations are baseless and
shamelessly concocted by the propaganda arm
of the PDP- led government in the state to
tarnish the good image of the former
administration in the state.
That on no occasion did any European Donor
Agency supply any drugs to the Ekiti Free
Health Mission. Neither did any agency donate
any drugs to Ekiti Health Mission throughout Dr
Fayemi's tenure in office;
That on no occasion did Mrs Fayemi donate
drugs to the APC Campaign. Even while her
husband served as the Chief Executive of the
state, Mrs Fayemi was not directly involved in
the Free Health Mission programme.
That Mrs Fayemi has over the past three
decades been involved in gender and youth
development programmes locally and globally,
and has continued to identify publicly with any
positive actions towards this. Hence she has no
reason to deny her contributions to a good
cause such as donation of drugs to the needy in
the society if she actually did.
Members of the society are therefore enjoined
to disregard the allegations, which are blatant
lies issued on a daily basis by the government
of Mr Ayodele Fayose, through the office of his
Special Assistant on (mis)Information with the
intent to divert attention from the government’s
ineptitude, corruption and directionlessness.
Investigations have shown that the EJG exists
only at the Information Unit of the Governor’s
Office and that the aides of the Governor are
the officials of the faceless group using
different pseudonyms.
These aides of the Governor are the same
people that came up with the lies that former
Governor Fayemi made a donation of N1.5b to
the APC Presidential campaign. They also went
ahead to circulate leaflets containing that
malicious allegations to civil servants during a
meeting called by Governor Fayose with the
workers in Ado-Ekiti, last week. They are also
the same people behind the scurrilous Al-
Hikmah advert campaigns in the newspapers.
Those who unwittingly or deliberately help Mr
Fayose spread this falsehood should know that
appropriate legal steps are being taken against
such libelous publications. Dr Fayemi is always
ready to clarify any issue in relation to his time
in office should such clarification be necessary.
Only a discredited government like we currently
have in Ekiti State would elevate falsehood to a
state policy, all in the bid to mislead the people
and cover up the misdeeds of the
administration.