Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has voiced his decision to join the state civil servants in the ongoing industrial action called by organised labour in the state 11 days ago.
The governor said he was embarking on the indefinite solidarity strike to show concern and emphatise with the workers, who have not received salaries in the last five months.
He stated this in Ado Ekiti at the weekend in a televised broadcast. He however, disclosed that he had paid the January salaries of local government workers, primary school teachers and subventions to tertiary institutions in the state.
Fayose who in the state-wide broadcast declared solidarity with the workers to confirm that he shared their pains and anguish caused by inability to pay salary said figures he has been declaring as amount accruing to the state as internally generated revenue and the N2.6 billion workers' wage bill were true positions of the state finances.
He said, "I want to tell workers that I have placed myself on indefinite strike in solidarity with you. I share your pains, but it was rather unfortunate that a man can't give what he doesn't have. I have told you the true position of the finances of the state, of which you had played critical roles in federal allocations to relevant sectors which shows how well I had carried you along since the dwindling revenue to the state commenced."
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