EKITI State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has described the decision to withdraw $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account to fight Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East region as a means by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government to fund President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in 2019. “The APC promised to wipe out Boko Haram within six months , now it is 31 months and what the APC government is wiping out is the economy of Nigeria and the means of livelihood of the people,” Governor Fayose said. “Also, they are miffed by the Federal Government’s idea of withdrawing $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account to fund an insurgency they said had been defeated. “The question is; how can the federal government alone spend almost half of the Excess Crude money that belongs to the three tiers of government (i.e. “The reality is that our treasury is daily being looted in readiness for the 2019 elections.

Source: Nigerian Tribune December 15, 2017 10:41 UTC