Former Ekiti governor, Ayo
Fayose, has maintained his denial of all the allegations made against him by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
His media aide, Lere Olayinka, in
a statement on Wednesday, said Fayose had insisted that he be charged to court.
“Today is his second day in EFCC
custody and I can say that his spirit is high and his will remains very
strong,” he said.
Olayinka, who said the EFCC must
stop acting irresponsibly by subjecting Nigerians to media trial whenever they
lacked concrete evidence to sustain court trial, added that “the commission has
started its usual lies by claiming that it discovered houses bought by Fayose
with public fund.”
He said: “Nigerians should recall
that in 2016, operatives of this same EFCC attempted to seal up a guest house
located at Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja, claiming that it belonged to Fayose.
Whereas, the building belonged to a retired army general.”
Olayinka said since the EFCC
claimed to have “overwhelming evidence” against the former governor, the most
reasonable thing to do is to charge him to court and get him prosecuted with
the overwhelming evidence at the
commission’s disposal.
“However, since the EFCC is only
being used to settle political scores, it is more comfortable with keeping
Fayose in custody so as to achieve the agenda of keeping him out of circulation
and embarking on its usual media trial.
“But on this Fayose’s matter,
they have picked on a wrong customer and no amount of intimidation, blackmail
and harassment will break his resistance to tyranny, agent of which the EFCC
has become.”
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