A Senior Advocate of Nigeria
(SAN), Femi Falana, has accused the Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose, of
antagonising him and setting him up for media trial.
According to Falana, his travails
in the hands of the governor began after he asked the law enforcement agencies
to investigate Fayose and his men for the cold-blooded murder of two indigenes
of the Ekiti state..
Falana was reacting to Fayose’s
comment over a property seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),
which he allegedly bought.
It could be recalled that
Abubakar Malami, Attorney-General of the Federation, had insinuated during a
senate probe that a Lagos lawyer bought one of the properties seized from
pension thieves by the anti-graft agency.
Governor Fayose had latched on
Malami’s insinuations to attack Falana, saying that linking the senior lawyer
to illegally-acquired properties seized by the EFCC was bad enough, but the
facts provided by Malami make the case against him even worse.
Falana, who had however denied
buying any property from the EFCC, said yesterday: “I stand by my earlier
defence that I never bought the house from the EFCC and I challenge him
(Fayose) and the Attorney General to show the evidence. I challenge the
garrulous Governor of Ekiti State to prove the monstrous allegation that I
bought a house from the EFCC.
“Since Mr. Ayo Fayose has not
paid attention to the fact and circumstances of the case, I advise him to study
my explanation that the house in question is a subject matter of a pending suit
before the Federal High Court and that the house has been forfeited to AMCON in
the interim.
“The EFCC is not a party to the
case. So, if Mr. Ayo Fayose wants to join the suit, he’s free, he is at liberty
to approach the Federal High Court holding at Abuja to prove his allegation.
But his is a case of Ajegbodo to nweni kun ’ra. (The one recklessly eating
fresh yam will always want to co-opt others into the deal.) .
“As of today, he has already
forfeited six houses to the government of Nigeria. So, if he is sure that that
this is proceeds of crime, he should apply to have it forfeited. He should
contact the Attorney General, Mr. Malami, to apply to have the house forfeited,
if they are sure that the house is proceeds of crime.”
Falana said the governor had been
looking for a way to attack him “since I pressured the state to charge Mr.
Fayose and his armed goons with the cold-blooded murder of Dr. Ayo Daramola and
Tunde Omojola.”
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