Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has challenged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to make public the statement it has extracted from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki, in its ongoing probe of money meant for the purchase of arms and the funding of the last general elections in the country.
He also said the agency should publish his personal accounts it has frozen to let the whole world know what are contained therein.
The governor threw the challenge at the weekend while featuring on an interview programme on a radio station, Fresh FM.
In a statement on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, the governor opined that by publishing Dasuki’s statement, it would at least show whether the ex-NSA gave money to former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro or any body to give him (Fayose).
“What I am facing in Ekiti is a war of the elite and incidentally, it is the masses that vote people into office. We know some failed Ekiti politicians who now resume daily in EFCC office to concoct stories and give same to their commissioned newspapers to publish. It is only one or two newspapers that always have their so-called exclusive stories and they follow the same pattern.
“The EFCC is only engaged in mind game. They think they can wear me out, that is not possible as God is on my side because I stand for the truth. EFCC has not told Nigerians how money was wired to me. They must be responsible to do investigation that would not be a media issue. What the EFCC and their APC collaborators are trying to do is to set the people of the state against me and they have failed.
“In my two accounts that they have frozen, I have N300 million in the fixed deposit one and N82 million in the other. Both accounts and my properties were duly declared in my Asset Declaration Form. They are treading the same 2006 path and they will fail woefully by the grace of God. What they did in 2006, the Supreme Court declared it illegal and I came back to office exactly eight years after. It means one of us lied and was mischievous,” he said.
Fayose also challenged the APC and its leadership to also tell the people how their own elections were funded, noting that a defector from the PDP to the APC should not suddenly become an angel or a saint.
“We cannot all be in the APC, if we are then, we are no longer practising democracy. There must be opposition and that is to keep those in government on their toes, but if you now make silencing the opposition as your main programme, then, you are short changing the people. The people are hungry, they are ravaged by poverty and what you think is the best step to take is to kill the voice of the opposition. If the situation was this bad, the PDP would have been removed from office long time ago,” he added.
He also said, “after the APC leaders failed to stop my inauguration, get me impeached, they know that they will still lose again in 2018. What they are trying to do is to create a wedge between me and the people of the state who love me. As far as I am concerned, their project is dead on arrival. The voice of the people is the voice of God,” he stated.
On the claim by the APC-led Federal Government that massive fraud recorded during the Goodluck Jonathan administration was responsible for its poor performance, Fayose said it was only a lazy worker that would complain about his tools.
“President Barack Obama, despite what he inherited from the Republican administration, still made the difference. The problem we have is not about the vehicle, but the driver. Let them give account of what they have realised as revenue, as recovered funds and the billions of dollars found in people’s houses all over the world. We want to knwo what has become of the funds,” he stated.
The governor urged Nigerians to always carefully dissect every information churned out by the party in power, saying the APC was leading the country as if it was still seeking the votes of the people.
This, the governor noted, “is why the government is more involved in propaganda than really informing the people about what is actually happening.”
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ReplyDeleteWhat a bold challenge. Over to u EFCC & APC.
ReplyDeleteNa wa a o
ReplyDeleteThis fellow called Fayose is restless! I dey laugh oooo. If your hands are clean, you don't need all these bro, afterall Omisore said more than these, now he is returning the money he once claimed he didn't collect. At first, it was Zenith Bank, now that Zenith denied sponsoring your election, maybe it's now Union Bank!😂😂😂
ReplyDeleteHe spoke well, if their is no opposition politics won't b interesting. For example take a look of democratic and Republican party of USA.
DeleteMr Adekunle, are you for the truth or for politics here , well not surprise, some body like you can never see or know the truth cos you clouded by personal and political vendetta. you should do your investigation before comment on any issue like this, because these are verifiable facts and nothing is hiden yet you are still talking as if you are in under world. let try to open our eyes and see reasons sometimes and stop talking like a fool.
DeleteIt was the same propaganda that brought APC into power.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you save yourself from this restlessness, you might have taken the money ignorantly, swallow your pride return money and sin no more. There are evidences here and there against you, yet you are still showing stubbornness (sorry culture doesn't permit me to use that word stubbornness but no other one to use due to age difference), but as much as I like your courage, this will not take us anywhere. Egbon, I must be sincere with you, you are fighting a war you might not likely win from all indications.
ReplyDeleteActually, Gov Fayose started the media war which he is now obviously loosing woefully.
ReplyDeleteGov Fayose was the one who invited the media to Zenith Bank Branch in Ekiti to inform Nigerians about his frozen Bank Accounts.
Now in his desperation, he is also confessing have huge amounts of money as fixed deposits. Oga, na how you take amass these ones now?
Na wa o. Dia ris God ooo.
unbelievable you cannot be serious, you mean that as a state governor, serving for over three year in office apart from personal income on businesses should not have 300m or even billion in there account, please you people should concentrate on proper governance instead of persecuting the innocent opposition. fayose position is very clear. only God will fight his battle for him.
DeleteI can't believe people of nigerian are all against fayose. Democracy means free.if fayose is short down in nigerian,politics will no longer be flexible. Fayose is like d voice of PDP party in Nigerian should learn from USA politics nd knw it's not a one sided game, their must b opposition for nigerian to seek d true change we want. All APC Govt was once PDP Govt, Clinton family remains democrate all their live, same as bush family remain Republican. Nigerian politics is still learning, we are far behind.
ReplyDeleteIt is only in dis country I have seen dat wealth acquisition is a big crime. D are just blackmailing d man but d will fail seriously. He just told us dat apc has not done any tin since d took power instead of looking @ d point raised u all are talking bull shit apc has really plundered dis nation and are still killing it. Oga fayose pls load more cannon and fire wit out ceasing cos u are speaking d minds of many voiceless, parents can no longer pay skul fees and provide der families wit basic needs cos of d chocky outdated economic policies adopted by d clueless government.
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