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  • APC: Buhari’s wife’s trip to U.S. exposes Fayose as a liar

    APC: Buhari’s wife’s trip to U.S. exposes Fayose as a liar

    The ongoing official visit of the President’s wife, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, to the United States (U.S.) has exposed Governor Ayo Fayose as a “liar, who has made lies and deceit a principal policy of his maladministration”, Ekiti State All Progressives Congress (APC) said yesterday.

    Fayose had accused Mrs. Buhari of involvement in the Haliburton scandal, claiming that she could not visit the U.S. over an alleged fear of being arrested. The governor accused President Muhammadu Buhari of shielding his wife from investigation.

    But the President’s wife filed a defamation case against Fayose in the court over the comment, maintaining that she was never involved in the Haliburton scam and had never been involved in any criminal act both in her private and public life.

    The Presidency also denied the charge, saying Buhari’s wife knew nothing about the scandal, even as investigations by online publications indicated that the “Aisha Buhari” named in the scandal was not Buhari’s wife.

    The state APC scolded Fayose for blackmailing Mrs. Buhari in a bid to score cheap political point and gain undeserved popularity.

    It said: “The governor’s indiscretion on his claim on the president’s wife has exposed him as a man lacking integrity to hold the responsible position of the governor of Ekiti State.”

    In a statement yesterday signed by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the Ekiti APC advised Fayose to resign from office, describing the governor’s conduct as a “collective shame to Ekiti people”.

    Olatunbosun said it was regrettable that a man of “less honourable conduct is the one in charge of responsible position of the governor of Ekiti State”.

    He said the President’s wife did not only visit America, but also met with the U.S. top leaders, United Nations (UN) officials and several non-governmental organisations that promised her cash and materials in aid of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Northeast.

    The party spokesman contended that Ekiti people did not deserve a leader, who had lost respect among Nigerians over indecent conduct, including recklessly telling lies and other unbecoming behaviours that were disgraceful.

    He said: “Recently, Fayose’s men wrote a letter published online in the name of Ekiti State APC spokesman (my humble self) purportedly accusing the President’s wife of involvement in the Harlliburton scandal and asking her to submit herself for prosecution in the U.S.

    “This fraud was reported to the police and investigation is ongoing. But this was after the governor had earlier lied that a spiritualist advised me to beg him to return to the PDP so that the sore on my thigh would heal even though I never nursed any injury in any part of my body and I have never spoken to him for more than three years.

    “He stage-managed a meeting with Femi Bamisile with some traditional rulers after asking them to invite the politician for a meeting, only to emerge from where he was hiding somewhere in the hotel to beg Bamisile to return to the PDP, which the latter rejected. But minutes after, the news was all over that Bamisile had returned to PDP after begging Fayose.”

    Olatunbosun also noted how the governor allegedly blackmailed an elder statesman and lawyer by pasting his posters as a governorship aspirant in the run up to 2007 election.

  • Ignore Fayose, Rep tells Nigerians

    A member of the House of Representatives, Ajibola Famurewa, has advised Nigerians to ignore Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State and his antics.

    He asked the governor to apologise to Nigerians and Mrs. Aisha Buhari over his incessant attacks on the president’s wife. The lawmaker who represents Atakumosa East/Atakumosa West/ Ilesa East and Ilesa West Federal constituency, Osun State said Mrs. Buhari has shamed the governor by travelling to the United States of America.

    Fayose had consistently say that the president’s wife cannot travel to America because of her alleged involvement in the infamous Halliburton scandal, and that “Aisha Buhari” was mentioned in court related documents. He added that the president’s wife travelled because it was necessary and not because she wanted to prove to Fayose that she could go to the US. He asked Fayose to tread the path of honour and apologise for lying to Nigerians.

    Asked to comment on the ongoing budget padding scandal in the House, Famurewa simply replied, “As someone who also vied for the post of Speaker before being asked by the party leadership to step down for Femi Gbajabiamila my response might be misconstrued. But I want to reiterate my full support and that of some of my colleagues for President Buhari administration in spite of degree of controversies rocking the National Assembly.

  • EFCC: Dasuki, Obanikoro, Fayose removed N4.6b from ONSA account

    EFCC: Dasuki, Obanikoro, Fayose removed N4.6b from ONSA account

    Former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki, former Minister of State (Defence) Musiliu Obanikoro and Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose removed N4,685,723,000 from the account of the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA) between April 4 and November 13, 2014, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has alleged.

    This is contained in some documents filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja, where Fayose’s associate Abiodun Agbele, was arraigned yesterday by the EFCC for alleged diversion of the fund.

    Agbele was arraigned along with three companies – Sylvan Mcnamara Ltd, De privateer Ltd, and Spotless Investment Ltd – on an 11-count charge of money laundering.

    He pleaded not guilty, following which his lawyer Mike Ozekhome (SAN) moved a motion for his bail.

    But EFCC counsel Johnson Ojogbane objected to the request, arguing that Agbele would run away if granted bail and also interfere with prosecution witnesses.

    The EFCC said its investigation into alleged dissipation of public funds and abuse of office by Dasuki led to the discovery of the Dasuki, Obanikoro, Fayose conspiracy to “fraudulently remove” the N4.685 billion from the ONSA account.

    The cash, it claimed, was transferred to a company, Sylvan Mcnamara Ltd, with account number 0026223714 with Diamond Bank Plc.

    In a counter-affidavit deposed to against Agbele’s bail request, EFCC alleged: “Upon the receipt of the proceeds of crime, Obanikoro (the then Minister of Defence for State) fraudulently conveyed the sum of N1,219,490,000 to Akure for the use of Mr. Fayose. On the 17th and 18th of June 2014, one Mr. Alade Oluseye (official of Zenith Bank, Akure branch) in company of the defendant/applicant (Abiodun Agbele, a front of Mr. Fayose) went to the Akure Airport and took delivery of the said sum from Mr. Obanikoro and others.

    “On the 18th June 2014 the appellant, Agbele, received an instruction from Mr. Fayose to collect the money and he thereafter made cash deposit in the sum of N219,490,000 to De Privateer Ltd account No:1013835889 domiciled with Zenith Bank Plc. Agbele is the operator and sole signatory of the Zenith Bank Plc account No:1013835889 belonging to De Privateer Ltd.

    “On the 19th of June 2014 the defendant/applicant also made cash deposit in the sum of N300,000,000 being proceeds from the N1,219,490,000 into the said De privateer Ltd account. On the 23rd the defendant/applicant deposited the sum of N200,000,000 into Zenith Bank account No: 1003126654 in the name of Ayodele Fayose.

    “The defendant/applicant, in further dissipating the funds, being proceeds of the crime, carried out various transactions including payments to Spotless Investment Ltd, Still Earth Ltd, etc on the instruction and for the benefit of Mr. Fayose.”

    In the counter-affidavit deposed to by Detective Samson Oloje, the EFCC described Agbele as “a flight risk” who has “perfected plans to flee the country before he was arrested.

    “The applicant in conjunction with Obanikoro (now at large) colluded to move and aid the escape of Olalekan Ogunseye, a principal suspect in this case, out of Nigeria and if released on bail, he will also flee from jurisdiction.

    “The defendant/applicant, prior to his arrest, was still in contact with the said Olalekan and plans have also been concluded to get the defendant out of the country by Musiliu Obanikoro and his principal, Fayose, the Governor of Ekiti State.”

    Justice Nnamdi Dimgba will today rule on the bail application. He ordered that Agbele be remanded in Kuje prison pending the ruling.

    In count one of the charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/154/2016, Agbele is accused of conspiring with Obanikoro (now at large), Sylvan Mcnamara ltd, A. O. Adewale (now at large), Tunde Oshinowo (now at large) and Olalekan Ogunseye (now at large), while being sole signatory to the Zenith Bank account  of Sylvan Mcnamara Ltd,  between April 4 and November 13, 2014 “to commit illegal act to wit: laundering the sum of N4,685,723,000,000 being sum transferred from the ONSa account with Central Bank of Nigeria by Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd).

    He was, in count two, alleged to have worked with Obanikoro, and Dr. Tunde Oshinowo (now at large) “on or about 17th of June 2015 to directly take possession or control of the sum of N1,219,000,000 being part of the N4,685,723,000,000” allegedly removed from the ONSA account with CBN..

    Agbele was in count three, accused of paying N100milion into a Zenith Bank account No: 1010170969 belonging to Spotles Investment Ltd around June 17, 2015. He was, in count five said to have around June 18, 2014 “did retain the sum of N219,490,000 in Zenith Bank account number 1013835889 belonging to De Privateer  Ltd (while he was the company’s Managing Director).

    Agbele was accused, in count eight, of transferring, on or about 26th June 2014, N137million “into the account of Fayose domiciled in Zenith Bank, Akure branch with account number: 1003126654,” when he ought to have reasonably known that the funds formed part of the proceeds of “unlawful activity of Dasuki and Obanikoro to wit: Criminal breach of trust and fraud.”

    The defendant was further accused, in count 11 of converting about N263million to personal use while he was the Director of Finance and Account of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) around June 17, 2015.

  • CNPP to Fayose: suspend capital projects, pay workers

    CNPP to Fayose: suspend capital projects, pay workers

    THE Ekiti State Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has advised Governor Ayo Fayose to spend the June allocation of about N9 billion to address  the salary payment that has dogged the state in the last seven months.

    In a statement yesterday by its Chairman, Tunji Ogunlola, and spokesman, Ayo Adelabu, at the end of its monthly meeting in Ado-Ekiti, the CNPP urged Fayose to copy other states by paying at least three months to workers and pensioners, who had been abandoned since this year.

    Reminding Fayose that Ekiti as a civil service state depends on workers’ salaries to run its economy, the conference urged the governor to suspend money-guzzling capital projects for now to pay workers, to bring back life to the economy and mitigate hunger among the populace.

    The conference praised President Muhammadu Buhari for granting another budget support package to the state to address workers’ salaries.

    “With the last Budget Support Fund Buhari granted the state and the bumper June allocation to the state, of about N9 billion, we urge Governor Fayose to put the money to right use in a transparent manner.

    “In a state that depends on workers’ salary to run its economy, we take exception to the governor’s plan to pay just one salary over excuses of spending on capital projects.

    “Governor Fayose should be seen as an honourable man that can be trusted with his word to make stomach infrastructure the pivot of his development programme during campaigns, and so any change of heart now after owing workers seven months is an unacceptable negation of the picture that the governor painted of himself during campaigns.”

    Insisting that the governor had no excuse to owe workers after collecting allocations from the beginning of the year, particularly with revelation that May allocation was yet to be spent, the conference urged the governor to be transparent in his dealings with Ekiti people.

  • Fayose denies receiving N4.7b

    Fayose denies receiving N4.7b

    Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose has denied receiving N4.7 billion allocation for last month as alleged by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Fayose, in a broadcast on the state radio and television yesterday, claimed that his government received a net allocation of N2.5 billion from the Federation Account after N900 million was deducted at source to service the state debts.

    Fayose, who accused the opposition of trying to make a political capital out of the state allocation, added that the 16 local governments in the state received N2.01 billion.

    He accused the APC of plunging the state into debts, which, he alleged, has created problems for his administration.

    The governor added: “Ekiti people are no fools because they know the truth.”

    The APC had in a statement yesterday claimed that the Fayose administration got a total sum of N4.7 billion from the Federation Account, which, it said, was enough to pay four months out of the six months arrears of salaries owed workers.

    Fayose said: “Those peddling unfounded rumours were given their own opportunity to lead the state and they left the state in huge debts. Their failed white elephant projects litter the state.

    “The uncompleted civic centre, the new Governor’s Office along NTA Road, where they only scrapped the ground. The pavilion was uncompleted and left in a state of disrepair.

    “I have always make known whatever comes to the state as allocations. There is nothing to hide as even the federal authorities do publish the allocations in daily newspapers.

    “Their mischief has failed and by God’s grace they cannot defeat me. Let them continue to delude themselves. Ekiti people are no fools; they know the truth and those who stand for the truth,” he said.

    Fayose also used the occasion to announce that the social security scheme of the state government, where 1000 people would be paid N5000 monthly would soon take off.

    He gave the assurance that the money would be paid directly into the people’s accounts and not given to anybody to disburse.

    Fayose also urged pensioners in the state, who were yet to complete their verification exercise to do so between Tuesday and Thursday this week.

    He added that about 11,000 had been verified and about 3,000 were yet to take part.

    Emphasising the importance of the exercise, the governor said only those that had been verified would be paid this month.

     

  • Ekiti got N2.5bn allocation in June – Fayose

    Ekiti got N2.5bn allocation in June – Fayose

    Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has denied receiving N4.7 billion allocation for the month of June as alleged by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The governor in a broadcast on the state radio and television on Monday claimed that his government received a net allocation of N2.5 billion from the Federation Account after N900 million was deducted at source to service the state debts.

    Fayose, who accused the opposition of trying to make a political capital out of the state allocation, added that the 16 local governments in the state received N2.01 billion.

    He accused the APC of plunging the state into debts, saying that has created problems for his administration.

    The APC had in a statement on Sunday claimed that the Fayose administration got the sum of N4.7 billion from the Federation Account, insisting that was enough to pay four out of the six months salaries owed workers in the state.

    Fayose said: “Those peddling unfounded rumours were given their own opportunity to lead the state and they left the state in huge debts. Their failed, white elephant projects litter the state.

    “The uncompleted civic centre and the new Governor’s Office along NTA Road where they only scrapped the ground were few examples of their failed projects in the state. The pavilion was uncompleted and left in a state of disrepair.

    “I have always revealed whatever comes to the state as allocations. There is nothing to hide as even the federal authorities do publish the allocations in daily newspapers.

    “Their mischief has failed and by God’s grace they cannot defeat me. Let them continue to delude themselves, Ekiti people are no fools, they know the truth and those who stand for the truth.”

    The governor also used the occasion to announce that the state government’s social security scheme where 1,000 people would be paid N5,000 monthly would soon take off.

    He gave the assurance that the money would be paid directly into people’s accounts and not given to anybody to disburse.

  • Fayose: I have N382m in frozen bank accounts

    Fayose: I have N382m in frozen bank accounts

    ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose has claimed that he has N382 million in his two bank accounts frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for being allegedly used for money laundering.

    Fayose alleged that the freezing of his accounts with Zenith Bank by the EFCC was aimed at wearing him out and silencing him as the voice of the opposition. He was confident that he would overcome the battle.

    He challenged the EFCC to make public the statement it extracted from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) as well as from his (Fayose’s) personal account details to allow the public know their contents.

    Publishing Dasuki’s statement, he said, would reveal whether Dasuki truly wired funds to the former Minister of State (Defence), Musiliu Obanikoro or any other person for onward transmission to him (Fayose).

    A statement yesterday by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, said Fayose spoke at the weekend during an interview programme on a radio station based in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, FRESH FM.

    He challenged the EFCC to carry out what he called “responsible investigation” rather than engaging in “mind games” and “media trial through their commissioned newspapers” to tarnish his image.

    The governor said the alleged onslaught against him was also intended to set the public against him, saying: “Some failed Ekiti politicians now resume every day at EFCC office to concoct stories” to run him down.

    Fayose claimed that contrary to what the general public is made to believe, the total amount in his two accounts frozen is N382 million made up of N300 million in his fixed deposit account and N82 million in his other account.

  • APC: Fayose can pay four months’ pay from fresh allocation

    APC: Fayose can pay four months’ pay from fresh allocation

    Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose is capable of paying at least four months’ salaries to workers from the arrears owed them out of the latest N4.732 billion allocation received from the Federal Government, the All Progressives Congress (APC) said yesterday.

    It advised the governor to spend the latest allocation to pay workers’ salaries and pensioners’ entitlements.

    The party added that the latest opportunity should not be abused and frittered away.

    Ekiti State APC spokesman, Taiwo Olatunbosun, in a statement yesterday, said the release of N4.732 billion offered an opportunity to bring relief to workers and pensioners through payment of their entitlements.

    He said: “The people of the state know the wage bill of the state is not up to N2.6 billion as always claimed by Fayose.

    “Since he claims to be a friend of the masses, Fayose should be honest with Ekiti people and with God now that he has been exposed by adding the N4.7 billion state allocation to the local government allocation, which is almost the same amount.

    “It is gratifying that the Federal Government announced the July allocations to the 36 states, giving details of figure each of the states receives.

    ”Governor Fayose is fond of distorting facts about allocations to the state and on several occasions, lying that the state receives barely N500 million after deductions.

    “Now that the Federal Government has announced that the July allocation to Ekiti State is N4.732 billion after deductions and separate from the local government allocation, Ekiti people can no longer be deceived that the state received peanut in July as an excuse for failure to pay salary,” he said.

    The party spokesman urged the governor to release “other peanuts” he refused to use to pay salary in the past and add it to the fresh allocation to pay workers and dying pensioners.

    He called on Fayose to demonstrate that he is a friend of workers by releasing alleged stolen funds, including the millennium development goals’ (MDG) cash traced to his accounts, to pay workers.

    Olatunbosun added: “The EFCC has made mind-boggling revelations on the various sums of public cash traced to the accounts of the governor, including kickbacks from contractors and multi-million naira mansions in Lagos and Abuja.

    “As a friend of the masses and workers, this is the time to surrender the proceeds of sales of such illegal properties to help his friends in need over inability to pay their salaries.

    “Only two weeks ago, Fayose received another N1.3 billion Budget Support Fund from the Federal Government to pay salary. This is in addition to the July state and local government allocation totalling over N9 billion naira.

    “With this, there is no excuse for shortage of funds to pay salaries of the suffering Ekiti workers, who are at the receiving end of crooked financial regulations in the state with its adverse consequences on the economy of  Ekiti as a civil service state.

    “We will do everything under the law to make Fayose use the money to pay workers’ salary and pensioners’ allowances.”

  • N1.3b poultry case against Fayose still in court, says APC

    N1.3b poultry case against Fayose still in court, says APC

    EKITI State Governor Ayo Fayose misled the public that a Federal High Court discharged and acquitted him in the N1.3 billion poultry fraud case, the All Progressives Congress (APC) said yesterday.

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned the governor in 2015 over the case.

    The APC insisted that court records showed that judgment had not been delivered in the case, which was last heard by Justice Adamu Hobon in 2014.

    The case was heard last after Fayose was sworn to office again and was shielded by constitutional immunity from prosecution.

    The party challenged the governor to provide the court’s enrolment order discharging him on poultry project case to convince the public.

    The APC said it was regrettable that a governor, who is supposed to be a role model for the youths, lied “shamelessly to score cheap political points”.

    A statement yesterday by its spokesman, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said “a judgment discharging Fayose in such celebrated N1.3 billion poultry scam case must have been delivered secretly, otherwise it would have been reported in the media”.

    He argued that contrary to Fayose’s claim, the matter is still alive and will be revisited when the governor completes his term.

    Fayose was reported to have claimed that the court had acquitted him over the matter that was first arraigned before the Lagos Division, before he contested the jurisdiction of the court.

    The governor had argued that the alleged crime was committed in Ekiti State.

    He won the argument and the case was subsequently transferred to the Ado-Ekiti Division, which resumed the hearing of the case without delivering judgment.

    The governor claimed on several occasions that the court had cleared him.

    But Olatunbosun said the party’s reaction to the governor’s claim became necessary to draw public attention to the true position of the matter.

    Berating the governor for allegedly elevating falsehood to the state policy of his administration, Olatunbosun said:

    “It is regrettable that Fayose has made lies and falsehood a major plank of the state policy of his government.

    “There is no iota of truth in Fayose’s claim of acquittal as no court has delivered judgment on the matter, which is still pending before the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti.

    “The case was last heard by Mr. Justice Adamu Hobon of the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti, where EFCC gave a blow-by-blow incontrovertible evidence of how Fayose used Biological Concepts Limited owned by his friend, Gbenga James, to defraud Ekiti State of N1.3 billion to build houses and purchase car for his mother.

    “After that sitting, what Fayose did was to approach the Supreme Court for an interlocutory injunction to frustrate the trial. This is not the same thing as being discharged and acquitted over a matter that judgment is yet to be given,” he explained.

    Urging Fayose to stop misleading the public over the status of the matter, Olatunbosun explained that the matter had reached the stage of exchange of addresses to be followed by judgment shortly before Fayose emerged as the governor-elect in June 2014.

    He added that report available to the party suggested that Fayose had allegedly caused the murder cases involving Dr. Ayo Daramola and Tunde Omojola to be dismissed in secret trial, using the instrumentality of incumbency as a sitting governor since the matter was between Ekiti State Government as the plaintiff in a matter Fayose was a defendant.

    The party spokesman challenged Fayose to provide the court’s enrolment order discharging him on poultry project case to convince the public.

    He said it was regrettable that a governor, who is supposed to be a role model for the youths, lied “shamelessly to score cheap political points”.

     

  • APC: Fayose wasting Ekiti funds on EFCC case

    APC: Fayose wasting Ekiti funds on EFCC case

    •Governor denies allegation

    THE Ekiti State All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused Governor Ayo Fayose of wasting the state’s scarce resources on the court case he filed against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to challenge the freezing of his bank account.

    The party said it was wrong, immoral, illegal, unconstitutional and criminal for Fayose to dip his hands into the treasury to prosecute his private case against the anti-graft agency.

    APC’s Publicity Secretary Taiwo Olatunbosun, in a statement yesterday, said the party was in possession of documents showing that Fayose spent N22 million to charter a plane that flew his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, from Lagos to Akure Airport for the journey to Ado-Ekiti, when he last appeared at the EFCC case.

    The matter was last heard at the Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti, on December 27, but it was adjourned to September 30 by Justice Taiwo Taiwo.

    EFCC froze the governor’s account on May 24  for alleged fraudulent diversion of cash from the Office of the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, to finance Fayose’s election.

    About N1.21 billion of the cash was traced to the governor’s accounts and those of his friends and family, including Abiodun Agbele.

    Fayose denied collecting money from Dasuki for his election, saying his election was financed by Zenith Bank, which had denied the claim.

    But APC kicked against the governor for allegedly drawing from the state’s finances to hire a lawyer to prosecute the case in court.

    Olatunbosun alleged that Ozekhome had flown  from Lagos to Akure twice since the beginning of the case, all at the expense of the state.

    “We gathered from a reliable source that a warrant for the payment of N22 million being the cost of chartered aircraft that flew Ozekhome twice from Lagos to Akure was issued and the money released almost immediately by the Office of the Accountant General.

    “The N22 million is besides the legal fee, which has been reportedly paid to Ozekhome by the government, to pursue a personal matter for the governor, whose private account was frozen.

    “Fayose is fond of using state’s funds for his personal affairs as is the case with his latest matter with the EFCC, the same way he has been spending state’s money on adverts in several newspapers to abuse President Muhammadu Buhari,” Olatunbosun explained.

    He accused Fayose of appropriating the state’s funds as his personal money, citing IGR cash balances allegedly kept in secret accounts that were only known to the governor.

    “Fayose has taken corrupt practices in government to a ridiculous height by renting out his personal house in Abuja to the state government to be used as Abuja Government House for eight years at N50 million per annum, even though Ekiti State Government has a befitting guest house and hotel, called the NANET  SUITES in the Federal capital.

    “Fayose and his counsel should be reminded that it is a financial crime to use state’s funds for personal matters and we wish to invite the EFCC to quiz the accountant general and the Cabinet Office for  this abuse of office and flagrant violation of financial regulations,” he concluded.

    Fayose has challenged the APC to come out with evidence to substantiate its claims that he is spending state’s funds on his case against the EFCC.

    Speaking through his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose advised the APC to forward any evidence at its disposal to the EFCC, warning the opposition to keep silent since “Ekiti people have not complained that their money is missing”.

    He said: “That kind of allegation can only come from the dirty mind of APC members in Ekiti.

    “There is nothing like that and if they have strong evidence, the EFCC, which has become a department of the APC, is there for them to do their bidding.

    “Or has Ekiti people complained that their money is missing? By the way, the APC governors, whose elections were challenged in the court, where did the money spent on litigation came from?

    “The APC was in government in Ekiti from 1999-2003 and 2010-2014, the PDP did not disturb them as they are waging war, fabricating lies every day to disparage this government.

    “By the grace of God, their noise will be like that of dog before mankind? The APC should stop disturbing the sensibility of Nigerians and face the myriads of problems confronting the people.