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Ekiti Govt Yet To Receive Any Official Request On Moji Olaiya’s Burial – Fayose’s Aide

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Ekiti State Government has described as misleading online
publications, claiming that the State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose
promised fund the movement of the corpse of late Nollywood Actress,
Moji Olaiya from Canada to Nigeria, saying; “No official request has
been made to the government in respect of the burial.”

Special Assistant to the State Governor on Public Communications and
New Media, Lere Olayinka, who made this known in a statement issued in
Ado Ekiti on Monday, described as irresponsible, the comment made by a
certain Olukayode Salako, claiming that Governor Fayose declined
request to assist with the flying of Moji Olaiya’s corpse to Nigeria.

He said; “it is totally irresponsible on the part of the said
Olukayode Salako, who is said to be the husband of Actress Foluke
Daramola to have taken to the online media to disparage the person of
the governor when even family members and genuine friends of the
deceased are mourning her and seeking means of according her a
befitting burial.”

The governor’s spokesperson, who maintained that there was no official
communication between the governor and Moji Olaiya’s family, disclosed
that; “On Thursday, last week, I was contacted on phone by a
journalist friend, Yomi Fabiyi on the need for the Ekiti State
Government to assist in raising a sum of $15,000 needed to bring Moji
Olaiya’s corpse to Nigeria.

“My immediate response was that an official request, via a letter
should be made and that the letter will be presented to the governor.
I gave him my email address to which I said the letter should be sent.

“On Friday, I informed the Chief of Staff to the governor, Chief Dipo
Anisulowo of my telephone conversation with Yomi Fabiyi, and my
response that official letter should be written to the governor.

“Up till today, the letter has not been sent and as such, no official
request has been made to the State Government.

“When my attention was drawn to online publication that Governor
Fayose had elected to fund the flying of the deceased corpse to
Nigeria, I called the journalist who did the report and told him
pointedly that no such decision was taken by the governor. It was on
the strength of this that Mr Yomi Fabiyi issued a press statement on
behalf of the Burial Committee, stating that no request had been made
to the government of Ekiti State and the official letter requested was
yet to be sent.

“It therefore beats our imagination that certain character like
Olukayode Salako could take to the online media to make derogatory
comments on the governor, purportedly on behalf of the family.

“While we condole with the Olaiya family of Ijesha Isu Ekiti, Moji
Olaiya’s friends, fans and colleagues in the movie industry, we wish
to advise that the family should saddle only responsible people with
the task of according their daughter a befitting burial.”

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