The Ekiti State Government has
described the arrest of the State Commissioner for Finance, Chief Toyin
Ojo and the Accountant General, Mrs Yemisi Owolabi by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as a further demonstration of the
anti-corruption agency’s irresponsibility.
It said “The EFCC is obviously
living up to its status as the attack-dog of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
government, but Ekiti State government under Governor Ayodele Fayose cannot be
intimidated.”
Special Assistant to the State
Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said in a
statement issued on Thursday that “it is obvious that the hawks around
President Muhammadu Buhari are afraid of Governor Ayodele Fayose’s declaration
to contest the presidential election in 2019, hence the usual panicky measure
of arresting government officials in Ekiti on the day of his declaration, with
the view to embark on another round of media trial against the governor and his
government.”
The government said “it is funny
that the EFCC, in the bid to carry out its usual hatchet job against Governor
Fayose, failed to take into cognizance the subsisting court order, which
forbids any official of the Ekiti State government from being arrested by the
EFCC. Up till today, the court order has not been appealed and it subsists.”
The government challenged the
EFCC to tell Nigerians what had been done to the loads of petitions written
against the immediate past APC government of Dr Kayode Fayemi, stressing “What
has the EFCC done to those involved in the grass-cutting scam and the $43
million Ikoyi scam?”
The government said: “It is so
funny and laughable that these
characters in the APC government can’t even disappoint for once by being unpredictable.
characters in the APC government can’t even disappoint for once by being unpredictable.
“Like we have said before, the
game plan of those who want power in Ekiti State by force as well as those who
do not want anyone to speak against President Buhari, that they see as a god,
is to stifle Ekiti State government and make it impossible for the government
to carry out its responsibilities.
“However, the EFCC and its
collaborators should know that we have threaded this path before and we, in the
government of Ekiti State won’t be intimidated by the irresponsibility of a
federal government anti-corruption agency that has come to see itself as
instrument of harassing, oppressing, intimidating and coercing perceived
opposition figures.
“On this one, let us tell these
agents of the devil in the EFCC and those they are working for that as usual,
they have taken on a wrong customer. This is because the more they run after
Governor Fayose, the more they hit their heads on the Rock of Ages and get
themselves fatally injured.”
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ReplyDeleteEFCC and APC acts like they will remain in power forever. But they fail to understand that tomorrow is pregnant (Unknown). Who would have imagined that Amaechi will be walking freely in Nigeria, haven embezzled much as a governor of oil rich Rivers?. Fayose being a man of the people will be vindicated.
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