Governor Ayodele Fayose, has described the arrest of his commissioner for finance, and the accountant general by the Eonomic Financial Crimes Commissions as irresponsible.

Fayose in a statement through his spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, labeled the anti-corruption as the attack-dog of the All Progressives Congress government.

He said, “It is obvious that the hawks around President Muhammadu Buhari are afraid of Governor Ayodele Fayose’s declaration to contest the presidential election in 2019, hence the usual panicky measure of arresting government officials in Ekiti on the day of his declaration, with the view to embark on another round of media trial against the governor and his government".

“It is funny that the EFCC, in the bid to carry out its usual hatchet job against Governor Fayose, failed to take into cognizance the subsisting court order, which forbids any official of the Ekiti state government from being arrested by the EFCC. Up till today, the court order has not been appealed and it subsists," he said.

The statement continued: “What has the EFCC done to those involved in the grass-cutting scam and the $43 million Ikoyi scam?

“It is so funny and laughable that these characters in the APC government can’t even disappoint for once by being unpredictable. “Like we have said before, the game plan of those who want power in Ekiti state by force as well as those who do not want anyone to speak against President Buhari, that they see as a god, is to stifle Ekiti state government and make it impossible for the government to carry out its responsibilities.

“However, the EFCC and its collaborators should know that we have threaded this path before and we, in the government of Ekiti state won’t be intimidated by the irresponsibility of a federal government anti-corruption agency that has come to see itself as instrument of harassing, oppressing, intimidating and coercing perceived opposition figures.

“On this one, let us tell these agents of the devil in the EFCC and those they are working for that as usual, they have taken on a wrong customer.

“This is because the more they run after Governor Fayose, the more they hit their heads on the Rock of Ages and get themselves fatally injured.”

Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman of the agency, had earlier in a statement announced the arrest of State government officials following their refusal to honour the commission’s invitation.

“They are currently in the custody of the EFCC. They were picked up today following their refusal to honour previous invitations for interrogation in relation to pending investigation on the misuse of bailout funds by the Ayodele Fayose administration,”

The officials were arrested while Fayose was making known his intention to “snatch power” from President Muhammadu Buhari.

Although the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has zoned its presidential ticket to the north in 2019, Fayose has vowed to contest on the platform of the party.

During his declaration in Abuja, Fayose boasted that he would defeat Buhari in a free and fair election.

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