The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has obtained a remand order from a Federal Capital Territory High Court to keep former Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State for two weeks, The PUNCH can confirm.

The remand order, it was learnt, is subject to renewal which implies that Fayose could spend longer than two weeks in custody.

A reliable source said, “We have obtained a court order to hold Fayose for at least two weeks pending investigation. He could be released earlier or later than two weeks depending on the outcome of investigation.”

Fayose is under probe for allegedly receiving N1.3bn from the Office of the National Security Adviser through a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, during the build-up to the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State.

However, sources within the commission revealed to The PUNCH that Fayose was also under probe for allegedly receiving kickbacks from government contractors through his aide, Abiodun Agbele, who is currently standing trial for fraud.

The EFCC source said, “We have many cases against Fayose being handled by three different teams. We cannot just arraign him immediately. We want to do a thorough job before taking him to court.”

Meanwhile, the lawyer to Fayose, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), told The PUNCH on the telephone that if the EFCC failed to release the former governor on Thursday (today), the commission would be sued for breaching Fayose’s fundamental human rights.

Ozekhome said the EFCC began investigating Fayose over two years ago and that he wondered why the agency would decide to hold him for over 24 hours.

He said the commission could not force Fayose to write any statement as he reserved the right to remain silent.

The senior advocate said any move to obtain a remand order would amount to illegality because the Supreme Court had made that clear.

The lawyer said since Fayose’s accounts had been frozen and his properties seized by the commission, there was nothing for the ex-governor to tell the EFCC as the matter was already in court.

Ozekhome added, “His lawyers will consider approaching the court for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights if he is not released on Thursday. Section 35 and 36 of the constitution are clear on this.

“He is not a flight risk. He willingly submitted himself to the EFCC even earlier than the time he was supposed to come. What the EFCC is doing is nothing but media trial.

“From the way they have been chasing Fayose in the last three years, one would have expected that the EFCC would have completed its investigations and would arrest him immediately his tenure expires and charge him the next day but that is not the case.

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“They want him to write a statement by force and then use the statement against him instead of using their own evidence.”

Charge Fayose to court, PDP tells EFCC

On its part, the South-West Zone of the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday warned the EFCC not to detain Fayose for more than 48 hours before charging him to court.

In a statement issued by the Publicity Secretary of the party in the zone, Mr Ayo Fadaka, the party said, “It is now going to 48 hours that he submitted himself to the agency and he is still being held incommunicado, this development proves that the claim by the EFCC that it is actually working in public interest is a lie. It is merely playing a partisan card as attested to by its unfortunate tweet in the immediate aftermath of the Ekiti election.

“We, therefore, hold firmly that if Fayose is not charged to court immediately to answer to whatever charges against him, then it will be very clear that the Buhari administration is merely using the EFCC to intimidate, harass and punish him in the most unjust manner.”

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Meanwhile, Fayose has said the statement credited to Governor Kayode Fayemi that his administration was an error is a mere political statement that shouldn’t be taken seriously.

He said the Ekiti people knew that his first and second administrations were never an error but rather ones that brought unparalleled blessings and development to the state.

Fayose reacted through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, in a press release issued in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday.

He said, “If Fayemi said the administration of Fayose is an error, then the road projects, the High Court Complex, the Adunni Olayinka Women Development Centre, the new Governor’s Office, the Ministry of Finance building, the flyover bridge, the construction of chalets and renovation of buildings in the Government House, among others, are errors.

“The old Governor’s Office used by Governor Fayemi during his first tenure was built by Fayose and now that providence has bestowed a second term on his shoulder, he will operate from the new Governor’s Office also built by Fayose. Are these errors as well?”

News source :: http://gistmore.com/efcc-obtains-court-order-detain-fayose-two-weeks

Well, he already packed a bag so………

Lol.


Dem don push the man.


All the people hailing him are in their houses


With the evidence before efcc , they will get a conviction.


To the unfortunate youths defending 1.5Billion naira theft with a miserable China phone and 100naira data. Get well soon.

VERY GOOD DEVELOPMEMT.

His pains just REALY started NOW!

For those supporters of corruption shouting take him to court, is that how they take someone to court? You need to build a water tight case before filing any charges now efcc can proceed and build that case. From this administration and moving forward it shall not be business as usual and they people will be better for it.
It's such a shame that this is the same person some people idolize, people wey una steal together Don enter plea bargain and are returning money, polutry scam is still there, only God knows what he was up to between 2014-18.

Mynd44:
Well, he already packed a bag so………

Most Savage comment of the month of October.....

Believe me, he is fully prepared for all these he packed all when he was coming

AntiWailer:
Lol.


Dem don push the man

Dem don push am enter one chance bus, sotey he pack bags for vacation in detention....
Some people wicked sha.

They actually escorted him to the door of detention and turned back codedly saying carry your load from this point, we wish you what your people wished you!

Chai!

If atiku should lose next year election, I think d next president should come from Kogi or Edo, Christians and Muslims have failed us. Let's try witches and wizards..
Webbro

How can you detain the saviour of the flatronn Republic?

This is totally unacceptable! Does this mean a whole generation is without a saviour.

Shame to the generation of flattinos. Awon omo jatijati! Awon omo iran olori pelebe!

Buhari Congrats you just lost additional 1million votes in southwest



They said his offence is owning 2storey buildings that doesn't even befit the Status of a commissioner

A man who has Tinubu as a political ally would never earn my respect as an anti corruption crusader.... Buhari's so called anti graft warfare is a farce gone too far. It's merely a tool to repress the opposition - when i start seeing EFCC detain top members of the APC then we can start taking them serious.

We have all seen how the lifeless one is phyting kwarupsion.

Wailers and supporters of thieves, you can take the floor from this point......

fayose in soup, the reward of knowing how, where and when to fight when you are not fully clean.

Fayose came prepared for the Efcc camping

Imagine what buhari would have used his rabid dogs, EFCC to do if it were a PDP governor that was caught on camera receiving bribe.

Condemned criminals like Amaechi, tinubu, Oshiomhole, Akpabio, Ganduje and all other thieves in a APC are walking free, lets see how this will end. What i know is that buhari will not end well and he won't stay in power forever

Buhari is a disease that must be cured in 2019

Ganduje nko?

I know he has immunity, but then EFCC should also start it's "media trials" on Ganduje....

EFCC works in the interest of APC, not in the interest of Nigeria

EFCC should just charge him to court

this country is just a mess. why don't dey take fayose to court, then if he is guilty he faces the law. not this drama happening now!!

The usual suspects, the IPOBites and their co-conspirators will come to his defense.

Before you talk of Ganduje, he will have his time at the right time since he's also enjoying immunity which Fayose used to defer his case till now.


Argue with your Eastern Ancestors.

Fayose just stand your ground...if they don't have tech to obtain concrete evidence...Make sure you don't give it to them

Nothing de happen. Trying to get more time to doctor evidence.

Buhari is a useless man

In other words, he is not being detained ILLEGALLY.

"The remand order, it was learnt, is subject to renewal which implies that Fayose could spend longer than two weeks in custody."

Fayose don enter am

kaluxy007:
Congrats you just lost additional 1millioj votes

The One million votes is from your yard abi?!

He's in pains now....

And then what next

Cool. Bt what of aregbe wey sandfill airport land with billions

God help nigeria