Publish Names of Nigerians Who Have Received N5,000 Stipend - Fayose Dares Buhari

Governor Ayodele Fayose 

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to be a transparent leader by publishing names of Nigerians who benefited from the Federal Government’s N5,000 stipend.

The outspoken Governor described the N5,000 initiative as a mere propaganda as he dared President Buhari to publish the names of all the beneficiaries to prove him wrong.


Fayose made the statement public on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi. He said there was no evidence of the payment in his state, which is one of the states the Federal Government claimed the exercise had started.

“A blind man will say it is when it gets into my mouth that I will say you are feeding me, not promises.” Fayose said.

According to him, the states in which participants have started receiving the payment were the APC-controlled states. He warned Buhari to stop his acts of propaganda and address the hunger in the land as people have become tired of his empty promises.

Fayose challenged the government to publish the number of people and the accounts of those who had received the money for all to see.

The Presidency had last week said the first batch of the millions to receive N5000 stipend have already reported receiving their first payments as at last Friday, December 30, 2016.