Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that
he remained unmoved by the alleged media trial
adopted by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) against him, saying “the anti-
corruption agency and its collaborators in the All
Progressives Congress (APC)
should not be in a hurry in their ill-motive, rather they
should wait till 2018 after my tenure when I will confront
their lies.”
He said, “the EFCC
did more than this in 2006 but when
I challenged their cooked up stories on poultry project in
the court, the EFCC failed to substantiate all their
allegations against me and their case crumbled like a
pack of cards.”
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,
Governor Fayose said “the EFCC is at liberty to continue
to use the APC media organs to feed the public with
concocted stories all in an attempt to tarnish my image,
cases are
only won and lost in the court, not on the pages of
newspapers. If they are sure of all their claims, can’t
they just go to court?
“If what the EFCC and its collaborators are now relying
on is a driver or a source in EFCC that is speaking for
Zenith Bank, and not the former National Security
Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) that they
claimed gave the former Minister of State for Defence,
Senator Musiliu
Obanikoro money to give me, goodluck to them.
“The EFCC and its spin doctors can continue to cook up
stories and feed their collaborators in the media. The
media trial can continue unabated, I am not moved. I
am more focused, more resolute, I don’t lose battles.
The one that they did in 2006 did not ultimately prevent
me from having a second term as governor of Ekiti State
and whatever they are doing now will also not stop me
from handing over to a PDP governor in 2018.
“I will meet them in court and the whole world will again
listen to their feeble stories as it happened in poultry
saga,” he said.
While reiterating his position that the EFCC was only
carrying out the APC agenda to force him out of office
or discredit him before the 2018 governorship election,
the governor said the EFCC will be asked one day, why
some politicians from Ekiti State now resume and close
in
EFCC offices in Lagos and Abuja and are the ones
writing stories for publication in newspapers.