Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, yesterday led a prayer with
other men of God in the State to pray against calamity from befalling
the country in 2016.
The governor, in conjunction with the men of God from various denominations, prayed against those plotting his impeachment in 2016, saying they shall be put to disgrace if they refuse to back down on their evil plot.
The governor, in conjunction with the men of God from various denominations, prayed against those plotting his impeachment in 2016, saying they shall be put to disgrace if they refuse to back down on their evil plot.
Leading a prayer session at the congregation of the clerics and leaders of churches at the government office in Ado Ekiti,
convened in collaboration with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Fayose prophesied that there would be 20 events in the country in 2016 that would shake the country to its foundation.
Fayose warned those planning his impeachment to desist or shall be visited by the wrath of God, describing himself as an anointed leader, who cannot be brought down by any evil machination.
The governor, who begged the religious leaders to continue to preach to their congregation to pay their taxes, denied the widespread insinuation that he was planning to impose taxes on churches, adding that the new taxes he introduced were to shore up the revenue of the state.
His predictions, which he termed unavoidable under the Buhari administration, were as follows:convened in collaboration with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Fayose prophesied that there would be 20 events in the country in 2016 that would shake the country to its foundation.
Fayose warned those planning his impeachment to desist or shall be visited by the wrath of God, describing himself as an anointed leader, who cannot be brought down by any evil machination.
The governor, who begged the religious leaders to continue to preach to their congregation to pay their taxes, denied the widespread insinuation that he was planning to impose taxes on churches, adding that the new taxes he introduced were to shore up the revenue of the state.
•Workers strike: There will be so much industrial unrest, especially in the first quarter of the year.
•Subsidy: There will be removal of fuel subsidy and petrol will sell over and above N100/litre, leaving the masses in more serious hardship. Product will not be available and long queue in petrol stations will persist throughout the first quarter of 2016 and beyond.
•Electricity: Power generation will drop to the lowest ebb. Still, federal government will increase tariff in 2016.
•Unemployment: Millions of jobs will be lost in 2016 as against the three million jobs promised by the APC yearly. Most states and federal government will retrench workers as evident in the over 2,000 federal university workers already sacked.
•Economic policy: Most private owned middle-class businesses will fold up because of bad economic policies of the Buhari-led government.
•Devaluation: The naira will continue to have a free fall which will take it to as low as N320 to one dollar.
•Economy: The Buhari-led federal government will have no solution to country’s economic problems.
• Security: Boko Haram will keep spreading and the Shiite Muslims will get more emboldened.
•Human rights: Penchant for dictatorship will rise with rampant human rights abuses and disobedience to court orders.
•Anti-corruption: Insincerity in the fight against corruption will continue and the fight will not only be selective and political, but targeted more at southerners.
• Elections: Attempt to forcefully control any of the South-south states of Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Bayelsa by the APC will lead to unprecedented deaths.
•Economy: Crude oil price will fall to below and about $30 per barrel.
• Anti-press laws: The masses, especially men of the media profession will rise against the federal government’s plot to deny Nigerians of their rights to freedom of expression. There will wide, condemnations by Nigerians and the International community against President Buhari’s human rights abuses and disobedience to court orders.
• Polity: Renewed efforts will be made to remove Senator Bukola Saraki as the Senate President; this will not only fail, but will heat the polity.
•Hardships: Nigerians will experience more hardships. The president himself attested to this (The SUN Newspaper Tuesday, December 15, 2015). This obviously negates the change Nigerians voted for.
• Elections: Plot by the APC to take control of at least one South-south state will lead to death of many people. Particularly, rerun elections in Rivers and Akwa-Ibom States will cause many deaths.
•Corruption: Halliburton scam may be revisited in 2016.
•Kogi State: Court will sack governor-elect, Yahaya Bello. Bayelsa State: Governor Seriake Dickson will win the supplementary election.Taraba State: Governor Darius Ishaku will be victorious at the court.
•Politics: There will be subtle political alignment and realignment before the end of the year ahead of 2019 elections.
Urging the men of God to pray fervently for the state and country to recover from the present economic doldrums, Fayose said: “You know when the economy is sick, the church is sick as well.
“I received the worst allocation this December. The state got N1.3 billion, while we need N2.6billion to pay salaries. So, I urge you to continue to pray for the country’s quick economic revival.
“Though, not that I have not noticed some financial recklessness perpetrated in the past, but I promised not to probe because it constitutes a distraction.
Urging the men of God to pray fervently for the state and country to recover from the present economic doldrums, Fayose said: “You know when the economy is sick, the church is sick as well.
“I received the worst allocation this December. The state got N1.3 billion, while we need N2.6billion to pay salaries. So, I urge you to continue to pray for the country’s quick economic revival.
“Though, not that I have not noticed some financial recklessness perpetrated in the past, but I promised not to probe because it constitutes a distraction.
Meanwhile, the state chapter of the APC has accused the governor of
deceiving the state workforce by his claim that he received a sum of
N1.3 billion as October allocation, even when he collected a sum of
N3.635 billion.
The party said the governor’s message to the civil servants that they
should not expect salary in January was a mark of his uncaring attitude
to workers, stressing that the current allocation to the state is enough
to pay workers’ salary since the governor had refused to embark on any
infrastructure development programme.
In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party
said October statutory federal allocation to the state and local
governments totaling N3.635,936,192 was more than enough to address
workers’ pay, which stands at N2.6 billion.
Dispelling the allegations, the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Lanre Ogunsuyi, said no circular was issued by the state government telling the civil servants that no salary will be paid in January.
Ogunsuyi added that the last time the state paid for UBEC counterpart funding was in 2012, which he said was also withdrawn by the immediate past administration, adding that Fayose should not be blamed for the ban placed on Ekiti from accessing intervention fund.
Olatunbosun said: “October allocation to the state government is N1,967,380,219.98 while allocation to the 16 local governments is N1,668,555,972.02 totaling N3,635,936,192.00. This is aside from the N9billion bailout which is meant to clear arrears of salaries but which he has diverted and yet to account for.
Dispelling the allegations, the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Lanre Ogunsuyi, said no circular was issued by the state government telling the civil servants that no salary will be paid in January.
Ogunsuyi added that the last time the state paid for UBEC counterpart funding was in 2012, which he said was also withdrawn by the immediate past administration, adding that Fayose should not be blamed for the ban placed on Ekiti from accessing intervention fund.
Olatunbosun said: “October allocation to the state government is N1,967,380,219.98 while allocation to the 16 local governments is N1,668,555,972.02 totaling N3,635,936,192.00. This is aside from the N9billion bailout which is meant to clear arrears of salaries but which he has diverted and yet to account for.
The APC spokesman also wondered how a governor that sacked thousands of
workers, cut running grants to civil servants, refused to fund security
agencies despite collecting monthly personal security vote of N250
million, refused to pay pensioners and stop monthly social security
stipends to the elderly would still come before the workers that he did
not have money to pay salary.
It alleged that Fayose’s failure to comply with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) guidelines, including paying counterpart fund, was responsible for banning the state from accessing Federal intervention fund to run primary schools while he has also refused to pay counterpart fund in the running of the Universal Basic Education Board.
“For instance, Fayose’s absence at a recent function by the United
Nations Secretary General, Bank Ki Moon, in Abuja denied the share of
the state in the $500m the world body gave to assist states in Nigeria.”It alleged that Fayose’s failure to comply with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) guidelines, including paying counterpart fund, was responsible for banning the state from accessing Federal intervention fund to run primary schools while he has also refused to pay counterpart fund in the running of the Universal Basic Education Board.
On the allegation that international organisation are moving away from Ekiti, the Commissioner said the development was not only limited to Ekiti, saying the situation was caused by the ‘economic scare mongering in Abuja and insurgency pummeling the natio.’
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