The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) has been accused of keeping the immediate past governor of
Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose in detention just to satisfy the powers-that-be
since it allegedly lacked the required evidence to prosecute him.
Fayose’s media aide, Lere
Olayinka, stated this in a statement issued on Thursday, adding that it was
laughable that EFCC was still telling the same stories 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 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 won’t say anything more than what he has said on Tuesday.”
He assured Nigerians that Fayose
was 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,” the media aide said.
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