I’m unmoved by EFCC media trial –Fayose
The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele
Fayose, has said that he remained unmoved by the media trial adopted by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against him.
He said the EFCC and its collaborators
in the All Progressives Congress should wait till 2018 after his tenure
when he would confront “their lies.”
Fayose 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, the governor
accused the anti-graft commission of concocting stories in an attempt to
tarnish his image.
He said, “If what the EFCC and its
collaborators are now relying on is a driver or a source in EFCC that
speaking for Zenith Bank, and not the former National Security Adviser,
Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) 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 Peoples Democratic Party 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.”
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 commission would 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.
“When you read reports in their
newspapers, the words and presentation are always the same and one
wonders whether the two national dailies and the online medium they are
using to spew their lies usually get their stories from the same source
and the source even writes the stories for them just for their reporters
to put their names as bylines.”
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