The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday bickered over a mansion seized from pension thieves and allegedly sold to Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana.

The governor who addressed newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, said it is “embarrassing, shameful, disgraceful that such a man of his (Falana) stature, reputed to be a human rights activist, friend of the masses, crusader of justice and defender of democracy could be linked to such scandal”.

And that “Falana’s alleged unprincipled and disgusting defence of the EFCC and Magu’s penchant for disrespect of the rule of law and due process is for selfish reasons and personal gain”.

However, the EFCC on its part, said it “takes exception to the attempt by the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose to impugn the integrity of its Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, over the management of assets recovered from pension fraud suspects”.

It described the claim by Fayose as a “most irresponsible allegation, coming from a governor of a state”, and challenged the governor, “to name the ‘prominent Nigerians’, that the EFCC and Magu supposedly ‘dashed seized properties to curry their favours’”.

Recall that the embattled former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, had accused Falana of buying a building seized from pension thieves and handed over to the EFCC. Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami had also while testifying before the National Assembly last week, echoed the allegation, saying the property was sold to a ‘Lagos lawyer’.

But Falana while denying the allegation, said the allegation by Maina is “a figment of his fecund imagination for mischief”, and that “since the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Malami SAN has apparently swallowed hook, line and sinker, the cock and bull story of Mr. Maina, a fugitive from the law of the Republic, I am compelled to challenge him to substantiate his mendacious allegation that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission allocated or sold the property in question or any other property to me.’’

Full details: https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/fayose-efcc-quarrel-pension-thieves-mansion-allegedly-sold-falana/

Silly Gov.

Spreading information without evidence.

Shame on that useless Falana.I knew he was dirty the moment he started licking buhari's ass.Shame on him.Human rights lawyer indexes

FAYOSE the basket mouth of ekiti state has open his wide dirty mouth again with useless allegations . FAYOSE where is BUHARI damaging pictures you claim is in your position? Thunder that will fire FAYOSE'S mouth just left OSHOGBO