Nelson A.Osuala[16 July 2016] 10:13AM
The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said that he is unperturbed about the cooked up stories of the media trial adopted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission which is aimed at tarnishing his reputation.
The no nonsense and courageous Governor argued that the EFCC and its collaborators in the All Progressives Congress(APC) should wait till the year 2018 after his tenure when he would confront all “their lies.”
Mr Fayose ,while speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, accused the anti-graft commission(EFCC) of concocting unfounded stories in an attempt to bring him to disrepute.
Laying credence to Punch Online News, the Governor argued thus:
“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, good luck 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.”
Nelson A.Osuala
is a Blogger & the Associate Editor of Negroidhaven.org (Negroidhaven).