A classified US document obtained by
SaharaReporters has revealed that the
American government in February 2009
banned Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State
from getting a visa to enter the US. It is unclear
whether the ban remains in force.

Mr. Fayose’s wife, Feyisetan Helen Olayemi
Fayose, whose date of birth was given as
January 8, 1964, was also targeted for the visa
ban. The document showed that the US
Embassy recommended the cancellation of her
existing visa, which was supposed to be valid
until February 2010.
Other members of the governor’s family
recommended for the 2009 visa ban included
his first son, Oluwajomiloju John Fayose, born
on February 18, 1992. His B2 visa was
recommended for cancellation even though it
was supposed to be valid until July 27, 2010.
Also covered by the 2009 visa prohibition
recommendation were Mr. Fayose’s two others
sons, Ayorogbayimika Mine Fayose, born
August 1, 1995, and Chukwuemeka Boluwatife
Fayose, born November 5, 1997. Both were to
have their existing visas rescinded, even though
the visas were supposed to be current till July
27, 2010.
An interagency committee at the US Mission in
Nigeria decided to target Mr. Fayose for visa
ineligibility by asking President Barack Obama
to invoke Presidential Proclamation 7750
(PP7750), after Mr. Fayose's impeachment in
2006.
The classified document indicated that Mr.
Fayose had stolen as much as $81 million from
the coffers of Ekiti State during his inaugural
tenure as governor.


Apart from the main allegation of corrupt
enrichment, in which Mr. Fayose was accused of
using several companies to steal from Ekiti
State, he was also portrayed as having
“provided stipends to people to attend his
rallies and paid journalists to write favorable
stories.”
In excluding Mr. Fayose from entry into the US,
the US Embassy also remarked that the
governor was involved in the “triggering of
events,” citing him for using political violence to
corrupt elections.
The classified document provided a list of
persons murdered by associates of Mr. Fayose.
The murder victims include Tunde Omojola and
Ayo Daramola, both of them murdered by well-
known aides or associates of Mr. Fayose. Mr.
Fayose was also suspected of involvement in
the attempted assassinations of Taiwo Fasuba,
then chairman of Ado-Ekiti local government
area, and Afe Babalola, a prominent lawyer
who hails from Ekiti State.
In a text message to SaharaReporters, Mr.
Fayose suggested that the visa restrictions had
been lifted or that his immediate family
members were never barred from entering the
US after all. “My family (wife and son) was in
the US last summer,” the governor stated in the
text. His text further stated, “I have only been to
the US only twice in my life. During my trial by
EFCC between 2007 and 2014, in 2009 the
court [asked] that my passport be deposited
with the court. I approached the American
Embassy for renewal [and they] said I can come
back after the trial. I have since won my case at
the Ado Ekiti Federal High Court in 2014, which
discharged and acquitted me. I have not
approached the US Embassy since then.”
Mr. Fayose added he was not aware of any
continuing visa ban targeting him even though
he admitted to our reporter that when he
approached the US Consulate in February 2009,
he was told to go and conclude his corruption
trial. He stated that he had not applied to the
US Consulate for travel ever since he
controversially became governor again in a
highly tainted election in 2014.
SaharaReporters learned that Mr. Fayose went
into hiding for several months after he was
impeached as governor of Ekiti State. He then
approached the US Consulate on February 13,
2009, seeking a visa to visit the US for an
“urgent medical issue,” but his application was
denied.


www.saharareporters.com/2016/04/09/governor-fayose-was-banned-entering-us-over-corruption-political-violence



Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Obama sef


Smh

Sahara reporters are becomming too childish.Even if they are partisan,do they need to make it so obvious?

Fayose lemme alone. I know your wife is a prayer warrior......

All this tinubu journalist you funny gan with your fake news. If I believe this then I can believe any thing.

But he went to the US after his electoral victory in 2014. I can't recollect d date but I know it was before his swearing in ceremony. In fact, he rushed back to Nigeria when APC and e 11 were making some frantic efforts against his inauguration as ekiti state governor