I left N12bn in Oyo treasury in 2011 –Alao-Akala

The immediate past governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, has said he left N12 billion in the coffers of the state when he left power in 2011.
He also took a swipe at the incumbent state Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, on the allegation of wasting N3 billion in a week when he was governing the state, saying it was untrue.

In a statement issued by Alao-Akala’s Director of Public Affairs, Oludare Ogunlana, the former governor, who is the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for the next month’s general elections, said: “I left N12 billion in the state coffers without any loan or debt.”
Alao-Akala, however, asked why it took Ajimobi more than three years before he came out with what he described as lies. Ajimobi, he said, should explain how he spent the alleged “N100 billion the Minister of Finance, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said the state had collected as allocation.
“I hope all he has to show to the people is not the over-inflated one-lane overhead bridge which he keeps celebrating. Or the re-branded and much publicised SURE-P buses disbursed to Oyo State to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government,” he said.
Alao-Akala said neither his wife, nor his children was arrested in the country and abroad for money laundering or financial recklessness throughout his administration.
“Rather than alleging the incoming governor of what he knows nothing about, he should just tell people how he used N1 billion to cut tree and N500 million to build fences of the proposed four-points hotels, which has not seen the light of the day since the last three years,” he said.