incarcerate, indefinitely, the outgoing governor of Ekiti State, Mr.
Ayodele Fayose.
In a statement issued today in Abuja, the National Publicity Secretary,
of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said information at the party’s
disposal and all over the social media indicate that the Presidency has
put the commission on alert to arrest the governor at midnight today and
detain him indefinitely.
The alleged directive by the Presidency is not unconnected with the plot
to use the EFCC and other security agencies to incarcerate the governor
owing to his persistent criticism of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led
APC government.
This uncompromising stands of the outgoing governor against the present
administration was the reason Ekiti State was invaded and taken by force
during the last governorship election.
By 12 midnight, the governor’s residence is expected to be surrounded by
armed men of the EFCC under the pretense that they had information of
his plot to escape. This is to achieve their plan to humiliate the
governor and portray him in bad light to the public by dramatising his
arrest.
Nigerians can recall that it was the governor who offered to submit
himself to the EFCC despite the commission’s clear display of bias and
partisanship as demonstrated in its various actions, especially its
tweets and putting the governor on security watch-list.
The EFCC even unprofessionally showed its bias in deriding the governor,
making light of a very serious matter by mocking him and asking him to
come before his tenure elapsed, which the governor declined in line with
the constitutional immunity.
It is now beyond dispute that Governor Fayose is not a scoundrel running
away from justice. Whatever the EFCC, APC, and the Presidency’s
spin-doctors may say, it is also clear to everyone that Fayose is not a
coward; neither is he afraid of the EFCC.
Fayose is prepared and ready to defend himself in the court of law.
Neither the Presidency nor EFCC is a court of law. Since the EFCC said
it had dusted up Fayose’s files, it should be ready to take him to court
once he presents him at the agency’s office on Tuesday.
Governor Fayose has offered to walk to the EFCC office by himself and
nothing must happen to him tonight. The PDP condemns this resort to
fascism by the APC government, saying the whole world should be at alert
to see another demonstration of crude disrespect for the rule of law and
rights of Nigerians.