The former embattled Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has allegedly refused to write a statement, as regards the alleged N1.2 billion he received during the 2014 Ekiti State elections.
This was ascertained through a leaked audio recording, where the Governor insisted that he would not give a statement to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The audio however, contradicts the latest report by The Nation Newspaper, owned by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, which claimed that Fayose has offered useful statements in connection with the N1.2 billion, allegedly used to sponsor his 2014 Governorship election, in Ekiti State.
In the leaked audio alleged to be the voice of the former Governor, he said: “You are no court of law, you cannot force me to say what I do not want to say, I have told you earlier, and I am saying it again; it is only in the law court that I can get justice. Your Commission has showed your hands to be partisan, to prefer to bring me down at all cost, and that you will not get my cooperation. I believe the court of the land is still credible enough to give us fair hearing, not here. I am not going to write any other thing again. This is the last time I want to talk about it. Whether you bring me here again, I am not going to do it, and I want to tell you.. the best thing is I am ready to remain here as long as you want to keep me, I would not be intimidated by this your incarceration. I would never be intimidated.”
Earlier, Fayose’s Media Aide, Lere Olayinka, in a statement sent to Post-Nigeria, said that it is laughable that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was still telling the same stories that it told the public, in 2016, and has been unable to charge the former Governor to court, since Tuesday, that he willingly submitted himself to the Commission.
Olayinka said: “With the deafening noise that they made about the evidence of corruption in their possession, and even going by the EFCC’s ignoble tweet of July 15, 2018, in which the Commission expressed its readiness to prosecute the former Governor, immediately he no longer enjoyed immunity, Nigerians had expected that by now, he will be facing trial in court.
“However, because the EFCC does not have any evidence against Fayose, the Commission has opted to keep him in detention, so as to satisfy its paymasters, whose major agenda is, ‘Fayose must be kept out of circulation by whatever means’.
“If not that they are just interested in keeping him out of circulation, why is the anti-graft Commission not in court to prosecute him with the ‘overwhelming evidence’, it claimed to have?”
Olayinka, who said Fayose will remain strong in his fight against tyranny, urged Nigerians to ignore any story coming from the EFCC, because “Peter Ayodele Fayose has denied all their allegations, and he will not say anything more than what he has said on Tuesday.”
He assured Nigerians that Fayose is prepared to stay in detention for as long as the EFCC will be ready to take him to court, where he will have the opportunity to defend himself.
“The former Governor will not say more than what he has said, which is denying the EFCC allegations. He has also told the Commission that he does not have any trust in them, having openly displayed bias against him, and showed that they were persecutors, instead of prosecutors.
“He is waiting to be charged to court, whenever they are ready.”
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