Fayose Accuses Buhari of Releasing N12.5bn from TSA to APC

The Ekiti State governor , Mr. Ayo Peter  Fayose, has accused the federal government of  releasing the sum of N12.5 billion from the  Treasury Single Account, TSA, as donation to  Kogi state’s All Progressives Congress, APC,  to enable their party perpetrate rigging even as Lokoja the state capital stood still for the state governor, Captain Idris Wada.

The controversial governor who said  Buhari is a resemblance of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in whose administration the rule of law was not respected stressed that he is not surprised at their military background.

Fayose  stated these on Monday at the Confluence stadium in Lokoja during the grand finale of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally.

He added that looking critically at the administration of APC at the federal level, people have discovered that the Buhari-led government does not possess an iota of human rights observance, saying the president only concentrated on chasing PDP members on allegation of corruption when many of his men were facing trial for gross corrupt practices.

However, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has dismissed as a contrived distraction the alleged fraud in the Treasury Single Account (TSA) and the rumoured diversion of the TSA funds to bankroll elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States.

In a statement issued on Monday, the minister said if those behind the accusation had allowed themselves some measure of honesty, they would have realized that there has not and there will be no such impunity under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

''It is understandable that the psyche of those who are making the frivolous allegations concerning the TSA has been badly affected by the impunity that permeated the country under the immediate past Administration, when unappropriated funds were freely used to finance elections and the public till was seen as an extension of personal piggy banks,” he countered.