Read are Ekiti state Governor says that the EFCC has been corrupted by President Buhari

Governor Fayose, has said that President
Muhammadu Buhari is using an “equally
corrupt” Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) to fight corruption in
Nigeria.

He said the president must start the
corruption fight from his party and
immediate aides since charity begins from
home.
“EFCC opinions remain their opinions and if
they are so sure of whatever information they
have, they should go to court and stop
subjecting Nigerians to media trial, and no
amount of media trial from the same elements
that orchestrated my removal in 2006 can
erode my popularity among Ekiti people,” the
governor said in a statement Wednesday.
He said any property that may be linked to
him or his company was bought legitimately
and his properties were duly declared in his
assets declaration form and sources of such
funds were not illicit.
In the release signed by the Special
Assistant to the Governor on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, Fayose said his election was
funded by Zenith Bank as well as donations
from friends and associates, adding that; “As
a promising candidate of my party, I cannot
stop Nigerians from supporting my election
like every other candidates of other political,
including President Buhari” .

He said since the money he got for his
election was from legitimate sources and
not from the Office of the National Security
Adviser (ONSA) as being concocted, how
the money was spent remained his own
business and not that of anyone.
Premium Times reports that the governor
also debunked the allegation by the EFCC
that he received bribe from any contractor in
Ekiti; saying: “if they have anything against
me, they should keep their gun powder dry.
“Because in 2006 when they took me to court,
their allegations crumbled like pack of cards
because court decisions are founded on facts
and law, and not on media trial as currently
being done by the EFCC as teleguided by the
APC in their desperation to set the people
against me knowing fully that they are not on
ground.”
He said: “Having failed to buy the conscience
of Ekiti House of Assembly members, the APC
people have become increasingly afraid of
2018 and that the agencies of the Federal
Government should know that no matter how
hard they try, Ekiti electorate will not be
deceived by their blackmail and media trial.Governor Fayose said, “The EFCC should be

told in clear terms that this is 2016 and not
2006 when impeachment notices against
governors were signed on the table of EFCC
operatives. Those who are teleguiding the
EFCC now should also be reminded that they
did more than what they are doing now in
2006, yet I was overwhelmingly voted for by
the Ekiti people eight years after the
orchestrated impeachment which the Supreme
Court declared illegal.”
The governor asked; “Should Nigerians now
conclude that EFCC is an appendage of APC?
Is the EFCC for investigation of corrupt
practices among all Nigerians or members of
opposition parties alone?”
The governor said: “As at today, I have not
been accused of stealing a dime from Ekiti
treasury. EFCC has not also said that Ekiti
money was stolen and that my election was
funded with Ekiti State money.”
Accusing the EFCC of carrying out the APC
agenda to force him out of office as was
done in 2006, the governor said: “It is sad
that some politicians from Ekiti State now
resume and close in EFCC offices in Lagos and
Abuja and we wonder whether those politicians
have now taken over the job of EFCC.”
He said he will continue to speak his mind
on issues affecting Nigerians and can never
be cowed, saying: “Nigerians are suffering.
States can no longer pay workers salary, a
litre of kerosene is now N220, a bag of rice is
now N20,000 and some people will sit in
Presidential Villa and expect that all of us
should keep silent? That’s not possible!
“No amount of media trial by agents of the
Buhari-led APC government will make me to
stop baring my mind on the cluelessness of
the Federal Government.”
In the same vein, Soji Adagunodo, the
factional chairman of the Osun state chapter
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has
said that the agenda of President
Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war is
to suppress the opposition.
According to The Punch, the Osun state PDP
chairman said the anti-graft war which had
been marred by gross impunity and
selectivity is boosting the chances of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the
2019 general election.

Meanwhile, the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed
the full details of its fraud case against Ekiti
state governor Ayodele Fayose.
Details of the case is contained in an
affidavit filed by the anti-graft commission
showing how N1.21 billion out of N2.26
billion was paid to the account of Slyvan
Mcnamara Limited.
The company is allegedly linked to the sons
of the immediate past minister of state for
defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, by the Office of
the National Security Adviser during the last
administration, was traced to Fayose’s
accounts with a new generation bank,
Premium Times reports.
According to reports, the affidavit, which
detailed how the governor received
kickbacks from Ekiti contractors, was filed in
response to a suit instituted by the governor
at a Federal High Court in Ado-Ekiti, seeking
an order directing the EFCC to unblock his
accounts.
EFCC had frozen the governor’s account
after it claimed the N1.21 billion was paid
into the governor’s account for the
prosecution of his election in 2014. An
operative of the EFCC, Tosin Owobo, who
deposed the written affidavit, told the court 
that Babajide, one of Obanikoro’s son was
the principal signatory of Sylvan Mcnamara.