Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi says the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose will spend many years in jail after leaving office in October this year.

Fayemi, who is Fayose’s predecessor stated this over the weekend while declaring his interest to contest  the Ekiti State governorship seat on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He said Fayose would be made to account for the gross mismanagement of the state’s funds, resources and allocation which he has received in the last four years of his administration.

He maintained that the state had retrogressed sharply in the last four years since he left office, stressing that his bid to contest again was motivated by the desire to rescue the state from bad governance, want, hunger and poverty.

He lamented the suffering of teachers, Ekiti State civil servants, local government workers and pensioners who, he alleged, were being owed backlog of arrears of salaries, allowances and benefits.

Fayemi stressed that Governor Fayose had no excuse not to have paid workers’ salaries and pensioners’ benefits having collected two tranches of bailout funds, two tranches of Paris Club Refund cash and Budget Support Funds for thirteen months.

He claimed that according to the latest records from the Debt Management Office (DMO), Fayose had borrowed ₦56 billion since coming to power in 2014 with nothing appreciable to show for it.

Flanked by his wife, Bisi; former deputy governor of the state, Prof. Modupe Adelabu; Nigeria’s Ambassdor to Hungary, Dr. Eniola Ajayi and other officials who served in his administration, Fayemi vowed that Fayose will be brought to justice at the expiration of his tenure for mismanaging the funds he received from the Federal Government on behalf of the state.