Ekiti State
Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has told the Federal Government to pay attention to
hunger and suffering ravaging Nigeria and its people and leave him alone
to
concentrate on governance.
He said
desperate efforts by the Federal Government to implicate him at all cost using
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and other government agencies
would not prevent him from delivering good governance to Ekiti and its people.
The governor
said these while reacting to media reports that a former Minister of State for
Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, confessed to the EFCC that he gave him
N2.3bn in the run-up to the Ekiti 2014 governorship election.
The EFCC said
the money was part of funds received from the Office of the National Security
Adviser under Col Sambo Dasuki (retd.) to fund his election.
“This project
‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ will definitely not put food on the
tables of Nigerians and for all I care, the EFCC and its collaborators can keep
running from pillar to post while I keep delivering good governance to Ekiti
and its people.
“We have gone
pass this stage of media trial, EFCC should rather keep its
gun powder
dry, when we get to the bridge, we will cross it. They said more than this in
the 2006 poultry scam blackmail, despite that, I am the governor today.”
Fayose,
according to a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications
and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said he decided to react just to fulfil all
righteousness because Nigerians were more interested in having food on their
tables.
“Those who
arranged the dramatic and compromised return of Senator Obanikoro to Nigeria
obviously did so in continuation of their project ‘Fayose must be implicated at
all cost’ but I am not bothered because my election was legitimately funded.
“However, if
this is why they are intimidating judges and the judiciary, it won’t work as
far as my own matter is concerned as no one can play God.
“As far as I
am concerned, I am busy here in Ekiti attending to the welfare and well-being
of my people. I won’t be distracted.”
Fayose
challenged the EFCC to also beam its searchlights on the funding of the All
Progressives Congress elections since financial assistance from Nigerians to
fund elections was being criminalised.
“The
international community, especially those funding EFCC must insist that the
commission probes the funding of APC elections before further funds are
released to the commission,” he added.
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