Governor
Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has told the President Muhammadu Buhari-led
Federal Government to pay attention to hunger and suffering ravaging
Nigeria and its people and leave him alone, saying, “This project ‘Fayose
must be implicated at all cost’ will definitely not put food on the
tables of Nigerians and for all I care, the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) and its collaborators can keep running from
pillar to post while I keep delivering good governance to Ekiti and
its people.”
The
governor, who dismissed the reported claim that former Minister of State
for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro confessed to the EFCC that he
received fund from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) under
Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) to fund his election, said, “We have gone pass
this stage of media trial, EFCC should rather keep its gun powder dry,
when we get to the bridge, we will cross it. They said more than this in
the 2006 poultry scam blackmail, despite that, I am the governor today.”
According
to a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications
and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said he was only reacting
just to fulfil all righteousness because Nigerians are more interested in
having food on their tables, adding that, “those who arranged the dramatic and
compromised return of Senator
Obanikoro to Nigeria obviously did so in continuation of their project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ but I am not bothered because my election was legitimately funded.
Obanikoro to Nigeria obviously did so in continuation of their project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ but I am not bothered because my election was legitimately funded.
“However,
if this is why they are intimidating judges and the judiciary, it won’t
work as far as my own matter is concerned as no one can play God.
“As
far as I am concerned, I am busy here in Ekiti attending to the welfare
and well-being of my people. I won’t be distracted.”
While
challenging the EFCC to also beam its searchlights on the funding of APC
elections, Governor Fayose said; “Since we are now in the era in which
financial assistance from Nigerians to fund elections is being
criminalised, the international community, especially those funding EFCC
must insist that the commission probes the funding of APC
elections before further funds are released to the commission.”
elections before further funds are released to the commission.”
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