Ekiti State Governor, Mr
Ayodele Fayose, has
challenged the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) to make public the
statement it has extracted
from the former National
Security Adviser (NSA), Col.
Sambo Dasuki, in its ongoing
probe of money meant for
the purchase of arms and
the funding of the last
general elections in the
country.
He also said the agency
should publish his personal
accounts it has frozen to let
the whole world know what
are contained therein.
The governor threw the
challenge at the weekend
while featuring on an
interview programme on a
private radio station in
Ibadan, Oyo State .
In a statement on Sunday by
his Chief Press Secretary, Mr
Idowu Adelusi, the governor
opined that by publishing
Dasuki’s statement, it would
at least show whether the
ex-NSA gave money to
former Minister of State for
Defence, Senator Musiliu
Obanikoro or anybody to
give him (Fayose).
“What I am facing in Ekiti is
a war of the elite and
incidentally, it is the masses
that vote people into office.
We know some failed Ekiti
politicians who now resume
daily in EFCC office to concoct
stories and give same to
their commissioned
newspapers to publish. It is
only one or two newspapers
that always have their so-
called exclusive stories and
they follow the same patern.
“The EFCC is only engaged
in mind game. They think
they can wear me out, that is
not possible as God is on my
side because I stand for the
truth. EFCC has not told
Nigerians how money was
wired to me. They must be
responsible to do
investigation that would not
be a media issue. What the
EFCC and their APC
collaborators are trying to
do is to set the people of the
state against me and they
have failed.
“In my two accounts that
they have frozen, I have
N300 million in the fixed
deposit one and N82 million
in the other. Both accounts
and my properties were duly
declared in my Asset
Declaration Form. They are
treading the same 2006 path
and they will fail woefully by
the grace of God. What they
did in 2006, the Supreme
Court declared it illegal and I
came back to office exactly
eight years after. It means
one of us lied and was
mischievous,” he said.
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