The governor made this disclosure in Ado Ekiti at the inauguration of 16 newly-elected council chairman of the state, The Sun reports.
“Our election was not inconclusive; we did not bring the person who did not contest to reap where he did not sow. We did not kill our candidate. The APC boycotted the election because they did not want to suffer 16-0 and 177-0 again. They boycotted because they did not want to suffer loss again,” he said.
Speaking on some national issues, the governor said he would always be vocal on national issues.
“I am not a governor that will go and cringe because I don’t want anybody to pick on me for saying the truth. That will not happen. Let President Muhammadu Buhari make his anti-corruption war total. Let him be bold enough to probe the Halliburton scandal and the $2 billion oil windfall.
“President Goodluck Jonathan left with the dollar a little of N200 but it is now N300 to a dollar. When Buhari collected two jeeps and $300,000 he did not ask where the money came from.
Nigeria cannot be a one party state. They say PDP stole this and that, is APC a saint from Jerusalem? Buhari must stop selective anti-graft war,” the governor said.
He warned party leaders and members of putting pressure on the new council chairman as he had equally advised the chairmen to show empathise with the people of the state.
However, the chairman of Gbonyin local government, Folashade Akinrinmola, thanked the governor on behalf of his colleagues for the opportunity to serve the state.
She promised that they will not let the people of the state down.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party had won all the 16 chairmanship and 177 councillorship positions contested in the local government elections held in Ekiti state on Saturday, December 19.
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