The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has described as false and malicious, a claim by Chief Jumoke Akinjide that President Goodluck Jonathan released the sum of $2 million to Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s government to aid water projects in the state.

Akinjide, who is the Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), had said in an interview on the national television that the money was given to the state as the Federal Government’s intervention in the area of provision of potable water for the people of Oyo State.

But the APC, in a statement by its Director of Publicity and Strategy, Olawale Sadare, challenged Akinjide to prove her claim with the details of the grant or withdraw the claim.

“But for the fact that we owe the public a duty to debunk such malicious claims which could only come from a member of failed and dying administration, Chief Jumoke Akinjide should have been ignored on this issue since it is obvious that she was trying to make voters in the state reverse their verdict of disappointing the president, already passed on her principal.

“Ms Akinjide has again added insult to injury for the people of the state. Her claim came at a time when the good people of the state were still in shock over the fake project list recently released by the Federal Government as Jonathan’s achievements in Oyo State.

“Apparently, the $2 million water project grant falls in the category of the Inland Container Depot at Erunmu and the Ibadan-Ilorin Expressway which President Goodluck Jonathan lays claim to in his bid to deceive the electorate in Oyo State to vote him for another four years of ineptitude, insecurity and corruption.

“The truth of the matter is that the PDP-led Federal Government has not made any intervention in the state in the last 16 years. The last time it happened was in 1999 and the water projects cited in Oyo town and Ilero have since been abandoned.