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The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) to settle political scores.
The governor said his current travails in the hands of the EFCC and the alleged startling revelations by the agency that he procured N1.5 billion multi-billion property using phoney companies was masterminded by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the purpose of dimming the chances of his party during the 2018 governorship poll.
Fayose said this in Ado Ekiti yesterday during a well-attended rally organized by a newly formed Ekiti State Private Sector Union, which was an amalgamation of all informal unions in the state.
The Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Mr Clement Adekola, his counterpart in the Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria(RTEAN) , Mr Samuel Agbede, and the leader of Okada Riders Association of Nigeria, Mr Dahunsi Olaniyi, were inaugurated as the Chairman, Secretary and Vice Chairman
respectively, among other executive members.
Fayose, who inaugurated the executive of the newly formed association, said the Buhari’s government will crumble if it wages war against him under the guise of anti-corruption war.
According to him, “They said I collected a sum of N1.3 billion from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki to fund my election. Some even said I collected it through Mr Musiliu Obanikoro. Let me put it on records that I did not know Col Dasuki and Obanikoro has not come out openly to indict me.
“They said similar thing in 2006. It was all about second term then, because they didn’t want me to contest for second term. They said the N1.3b project which I initiated was a scam, but God brought me back. The APC and EFCC conspirators took me before a Judge and I got justice.
