I Won’t Be Distracted By Efcc – Fayose
SAN FRANCISCO, October 20, (THEWILL) – Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has declared that he won't be distracted by the 'desperate efforts' of the Federal Government to implicate him at all cost using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Reacting to media reports that a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, confessed to the EFCC that he gave him N2.3bn in the run-up to the Ekiti 2014 governorship election, Fayose noted that his reaction was only to fulfil all righteousness.
The governor, in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Public Communication and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said the report was a plot by the Federal Government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to implicate him at all cost.
“This project 'Fayose must be implicated at all cost' will definitely not put food on the tables of Nigerians and for all I care, the EFCC and its collaborators can keep running from pillar to post while I keep delivering good governance to Ekiti and its people,” he stated.
“We have gone pass this stage of media trial, EFCC should rather keep its gun powder dry, when we get to the bridge, we will cross it. They said more than this in the 2006 poultry scam blackmail, despite that, I am the governor today.
“Those who arranged the dramatic and compromised return of Senator Obanikoro to Nigeria obviously did so in continuation of their project 'Fayose must be implicated at all cost' but I am not bothered because my election was legitimately funded.
“However, if this is why they are intimidating judges and the judiciary, it won't work as far as my own matter is concerned as no one can play God.
“As far as I am concerned, I am busy here in Ekiti attending to the welfare and well-being of my people. I won't be distracted.
“The international community, especially those funding EFCC must insist that the commission probes the funding of APC elections before further funds are released to the commission.”
Story by Oputah David