The
Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has issued a statement
following new allegations by Musiliu Obanikoro that he gave him billions
for the 2014 election.
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has urged Muhammadu Buhari
led federal government to allow him focus on his people instead of
distracting him with speculations and media drama.
He said this while replying allegations that Musiliu Obanikoro gave him N4.7billion
to prosecute his election in 2014, the Governor’s Special Assistant on
public communications and new media, Lere Olayinka, said that Fayose's
election was legitimately funded.
Fayose urged the Federal Government to focus more on alleviating
the hunger threatening to kill the Nigerian people, as project “Fayose
must be implicated at all cost” will not put food on the table.
The governor was responding to reports making the waves revealing
that Obanikoro gave him N4.7billion to prosecute his election in 2014.
He said, “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.”
The governor also stated that those who arranged Obanikoro’s return to the country obviously did so in continuation of project “Fayose must be implicated at all cost”.
Speaking further, Fayose dismissed the claims that his elections
were funded by the former Minister of State for Defence through the
office of Colonel Sambo Dasuki, who was the National Security Adviser at
the time of the election, reiterating that his election was
legitimately funded.
Fayose went further to state that if the arrest and intimidation of
Judges and the Judiciary had anything to do with him, it will surely
fail as “no man can play God”.
“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,” he said.
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