He said: “The federal government is already looking for excuse for the impending failure of the programme by asking states to contribute 40 per cent to the scheme.”
The governor, who said the school feeding programme was purely a contract between the APC-led government and Nigerians, asked that: “Were the states consulted before the APC made the promise during the presidential campaign? 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 a fraud!”
The governor said in a statement issued yesterday by his Special
Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, that Ekiti State and other states deserved to benefit from the programme without assisting the federal government with any 40 per cent counterpart funding.
Fayose said the federal government should rather blame itself for failing to do proper study on the practicability of the scheme before promising Nigerians instead of looking for who to blame for not fulfilling the school feeding promise.
According to him, “Apart from the fact that Ekiti State lacked the wherewithal to provide counterpart fund for such a programme, it is the duty of President Muhammadu Buhari and his party that won election on the basis of their promise to give free meal to school pupils to fulfil the promise without placing any burden on other tiers of government.
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