Sola Fasure, the spokesperson for the Minister of the Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has responded to Ismail Omipidan, the media assistant of former Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola.
The answer came after a claim attributed to the Minister's spokesperson, who later denied the media report.
According to Fasure, Aregbesola, a former two-term governor of Osun State, left no debt in his wake.
He claimed that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission should become involved in the debt issue between Oyetola and Governor Ademola Adeleke.
While Oyetola, who Adeleke said was elected on the Peoples Democratic Party platform, burdened him with an N407 billion debt, the recently-departed governor claimed he took no loans throughout his four years in government.
According to him, the Aregbesola government left the debt in doubt.
Both the Oyetola and Aregbesola governments were elected to office on the APC's platform.
Reacting to Fasure, Omipidan said in a statement on Monday: “Fasure should know that the EFCC is a responsible agency and a discerning one at that.
“Therefore, they know facts from fiction.
“They will know who did what and when.
“This is where I find his call on the EFCC as irresponsible and unguarded and reckless.
“Fasure and his co-travellers are merely trying to exploit the raging political reality to spew lies to the public.
“His statement has further confirmed our position that they are working in cohort with Adeleke and the PDP.
“This further explains why the PDP government cleverly avoided publishing the dates the loans were procured.
“I challenge Fasure to publish details of how the loans were purportedly liquidated for the members of the public to analyse.
“Again, I want to reiterate that we never took any loan before or after the July 16 governorship election as alleged by Fasure and the PDP.
“I have gone this whole hog to show that the allegations against my principal are unfounded.”