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Fayose Tells EFCC To Publish His Frozen Account by folawalesegun: 7:58am On Jul 25, 2016 |
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose
has challenged the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
to publish his personal accounts it
has frozen to let the whole world
know what are contained therein.
He also wants the anti-graft agency to
make public the statement it extracted
from the former National Security
Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki
(rtd) in its ongoing probe of money
meant for the purchase of arms and
the funding of the last general
elections in the country.
Meanwhile, a gubernatorial hopeful
in Ekiti State and an All Progressives
Congress (APC) chieftain, Dr.
Makanjuola Akindele Owolabi in
Kaduna at the weekend, faulted
Fayose’s leadership style, saying the
state needs to be rescued from his
hands before its economy collapsed
Throwing the challenge at the
weekend while featuring on a radio
programme monitored in Ado Ekiti,
the state capital, Fayose said
publishing Dasuki’s statement would
show whether the former NSA gave
money to former Minister of State for
Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro
or anybody to give him.
He remarked: “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 the EFCC office to
frame 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
pattern.
“The EFCC is only engaged in a 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 illegal and I came
back to office exactly eight years
after. It means one of us lied and was
mischievous.”
Fayose also challenged the APC and
its leaders to also tell the people how
their own elections were funded,
noting that a defector from the
Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) to the
APC should not suddenly become an
angel or a saint.
He said: “We cannot all be in the
APC. If we are, then, we are no
longer practising democracy. There
must be opposition and that is to keep
those in government on their
toes.“But if you now make silencing
the opposition your main programme,
then, you are shortchanging the
people. The people are hungry, they
are ravaged by poverty and what you
think is the best step to take is to kill
the voice of the opposition. If the
situation was this bad, the PDP would
have been removed from office long
time ago.”
On the June 21, 2014 governorship
election that brought him to office,
Fayose said his predecessor, Dr
Kayode Fayemi and APC leaders
accepted defeat and that both local
and international observers described
the poll as free and fair.
“After the APC leaders failed to stop
my inauguration, get me impeached,
they know that they will still lose
again in 2018. What they are trying to
do is to create a wedge between me
and the people of the state who love
me. As far as I am concerned, their
project is dead on arrival. The voice
of the people is the voice of God,” he
stated.
On claim by the APC-led Federal
Government that massive fraud
during the Goodluck Jonathan
administration was responsible for its
poor performance, Fayose said it was
only a lazy worker that would
complain about his tools.
“President Barack Obama, despite
what he inherited from the
Republican administration, still made
the difference. The problem we have
is not about the vehicle, but the
driver. Let them give account of what
they have realised as revenue, as
recovered funds and the billions of
dollars found in people’s houses all
over the world. We want to know
what has become of the funds,” he
stated.
The governor urged Nigerians to
always carefully dissect every
information churned out by the party
in power, saying APC was leading the
country as if it was still seeking the
votes of the people.This, the governor
noted, “is why the government is
more involved in propaganda than
really informing the people about
what is actually happening.”
In this article:
Ayodele Fayose
Col. Sambo Dasuki
Dr. Makanjuola Akindele Owolabi |
Re: Fayose Tells EFCC To Publish His Frozen Account by Baawaa(m): 8:19am On Jul 25, 2016 |
Fayose,this is not time to cry,2018 is around the corner |
Re: Fayose Tells EFCC To Publish His Frozen Account by folawalesegun: 8:28am On Jul 25, 2016 |
Please pay your workers their salaries. The suffering is too much |
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