Will this Governor ever leave buhari? Governor fayose says buhari school feeding program is nothing but a fraud

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The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele
Fayose, has put the entire burden of the
proposed school feeding programme on
the Federal Government, saying states
would not co-fund it.
He said the President Muhammadu Buhari
administration erred for asking state
governments for a 40 per cent counterpart
funding of the project.
“The Federal Government is already looking
for excuses for the impending failure of the
programme by asking states to contribute 40
per cent to the scheme,” Fayose said in a
statement on Sunday, June 12.
The Governor stated that the All Progressives
Congress-led government made the school
feeding promise to Nigerians without
consulting the states, insisting that the party
should shoulder the responsibility alone.
“Were the states consulted before the APC
made the promise during the presidential
campaign?” the governor queried.
“How can you make a promise and win
election on the basis of that promise and now
expect states to help you to fulfil the
promise? That to me is fraud.”
He said Ekiti and other states in the country
deserve to benefit from the programme
without assisting the federal government
with any 40 per cent counterpart funding.
Fayose further said that the Buhari-led
Government should admits failure, adding
that proper study was on the practicability of
the schem.

president buhari

“Apart from the fact that Ekiti State lacked
the financial wherewithal to provide
counterpart fund for such a programme, it is
the duty of President Mohammed Buhari and
his APC that won election on the basis of
their promise to give free meal to school
pupils to fulfill the promise without placing
any burden on other tiers of government,” he
said.
“Nigerians should come to terms with the
reality that the federal government is already
looking for a ready alibi for the impending
failure of the school feeding programme.
“The federal government knows that 80 per
cent of the states lack the financial will to be
able to contribute the 40 per cent counterpart

fund for the programme and the time the
programme eventually fails, Nigerians will be
told that it failed because states did not key
in to it.
“As for us in Ekiti, we are interested in the
programme because Nigeria belongs to all of
us. But we won’t contribute any counterpart
fund because the programme is solely an
electoral promise of the APC and we were
never consulted before the promise was
made."