The Debt Management Office has said that the immediate past administration of Mr Ayo Fayose had a debt profile of about N 120 billion as at June.
The revelation about the financial records of Ekiti was contained in a document submitted to the DMO office in Abuja by officials of the state government in July, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday .
NAN , however, reports that the DMO document was contrary to claims by the former governor that his administration left behind a debt profile of less than N 60 billion .
The DMO is an agency saddled with the statutory responsibility of coordinating debt profile of all the governments in the country .
NAN reports that Fayose had claimed that Dr Kayode Fayemi’ s first tenure as governor plunged the state into a debt burden that would not be paid off until 2036.
The DMO documents, however, revealed that the bond taken by the Fayemi’ s administration was almost completely paid off with the first tranche of N 20 billion to be completed in October 2018, and the second tranche of N 5 billion bond due for payment in 2020.
NAN further, reports that Fayemi had on October 16 , during his inauguration announced that his predecessor left behind N 170 billion in debt, with a promise to make available the financial situation of the state within his first 100 days in office.
Reacting to the DMO documents, Fayose through his Media Aide , Lere Olayinka, claimed that the state’ s debt profile was below N 60 billion , saying that the new governor was being “economical with the truth. ’’
Olayinka, in a statement in Ado- Ekiti on Thursday, claimed that Fayose did not commit the state to any financial institution in form of bonds and commercial loans .
