If disturbing information coming out of Kwara State is anything to go by, then the good people of the state are in for a rough time ahead.
It was alleged that Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has been giving his ‘master’ and predecessor, Senator Bukola Saraki, the sum of N100 million monthly to continue to curry favour from him.
According to a report, the state treasury is getting dry and this has made the people of the state, especially civil servants, to grumble and live under untold hardships over unpaid salaries, which is getting to its third month.
Yemojanewsng.com reports that “workers would not have been complaining as the economic downturn affects almost all the States of the Federation, but a recent revelation that Saraki” gets the “sum of 100 million naira as upkeep allowance on a monthly basis from the state government is not going down well” with them.
“That is the situation we have found ourselves in Kwara State. Governor Ahmed pays Saraki 100 million Naira every month as pocket money, while civil servants are not being paid salaries.
“Saraki claims he is using the money to oil his political machinery in the state, but to me, it is not right. Why should Saraki be collecting such amount. I want to also tell you that sometimes ago, Governor Ahmed and his wife had to fly to London to meet Saraki’s wife, Toyin, to beg her when Toyin said that she was angry about the way Governor Ahmed’s wife was treating her. We are trapped in Kwara and nobody can say anything,” a source in Ilorin was quoted to have hinted in the report.
However, spokesperson of the governor, Femi Akorede, when contacted on the story, denied the allegation.
He told Yemojanewsng.com that “The story is illogical and there is no iota of truth in it. It is not possible for a State that is collecting only 3.2 Billion naira allocation from the Federal Government be paying 100 million naira to Saraki!
“Besides, Saraki is a successful businessman that has various business organisations to generate money, so he doesn’t need to rely on Kwara State as a source of generating funds to oil his political structure in Kwara State.”
