By Rotimi Ojomoyela

Ado-Ekiti—The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has said Governor Ayodele Fayose’s opposition to the Single Treasury Account policy of the Federal Government was a deliberate ploy to conceal fraud.

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The party, which described Fayose’s conduct as very strange, said he remains the only governor opposed to the transparency policy of the Federal Government that all other governors had keyed into to save their states from fraudulent practices among government officials.

The party, which was apparently reacting to Governor Fayose’s widely publicised opposition to the Treasury Single Account (TSA) introduced by President Muhammadu Buhari, alleged that Fayose’s ulterior motive to defraud the state, may have informed his aversion for accountability in financial matters.

Governor Fayose had last week, told the Federal Government to perish the thought of imposing the TSA on states, pointing out that it was not in the position to counsel or force any state to accept policies that are not working for it.

The APC, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, stated that “TSA is aimed at ensuring that all government earnings are paid into a single account to ensure accountability and check fraud unlike in the past where several government’s accounts were scattered in many banks to perpetrate frauds.

Gov approves N236.9m as car loan for workers

Meantime, governor Fayose has approved N236.9million as car loan for 773 Ekiti workers

The State Commissioner for Finance, Chief Toyin Ojo who made this known in Ado-Ekiti, said the loan, which ranges from N80,000 to N1.5million will be paid in full to the beneficiaries.

He said grade level of the 773 beneficiaries was taken into consideration in approving the loan for them.

The Finance Commissioner said applicants who could not meet up with the screening condition of 50 percent of their net pay set by the State government would be considered as soon as the condition is met.