Ekiti State Government has said that the Economic and Financial Crimes
\nCommission (EFCC) has promoted its vendetta against opponents of the
\nAll Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Mohammadu
\nBuhari, especially the State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose to the level
\nthat the anti-corruption agency was now carrying out investigations by
\ntrial and error.<\/p>\n
The government disclosed that \u201cofficials of the EFCC stormed a popular
\nGuest House on Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja today to seal off the
\nproperty believing that Governor Fayose owned the Guest House only for
\nthe EFCC officials to be confronted with the fact that operator of the
\nGuest House leased the property from its owner for ten years.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement signed by the Special Assistant the State Governor on
\nPublic Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the government
\nsaid it was only in Nigeria that anti-corruption agency will first
\narrest suspect first before looking for evidences to prosecute the
\nsuspect.<\/p>\n
The statement read; \u201cToday, the EFCC demonstrated that it has been
\nlying against Governor Fayose and other Nigerians all along by the
\nfailed attempt it made to seal off a property located on Gana Street,
\nMaitama, Abuja that is being used as Guest House just because the
\ngovernor used to lodge there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was at the point of sealing off the property that the owner of the
\nGuest House told the EFCC officials that he only leased the property
\nfor ten years from its owner, a former Chief of Defence Staff, who was
\nalso a one-time Minister of Defence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe EFCC operatives moved to the next building to the Guest House,
\nwhich is the residence of the retired army general and they were told
\nby the general\u2019s wife that the building being used as Guest House as
\nwell the one next to it belonged to the general and not Governor
\nFayose.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is shocking that in its desperate bid to nail Governor Fayose so
\nas to satisfy their paymasters, EFCC is going about claiming that
\nproperties owned by other law abiding Nigerians are owned by the
\ngovernor and the result of this investigation by trial and error by
\nthe EFCC is the embarrassment it faced at Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja
\nwhen its operatives went there to seal off a property belonging to a
\nretired army general thinking that it belonged to the governor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the same way they told Nigerians that they discovered
\nmansion in Asokoro, Abuja owned by the governor. Unknown to the EFCC,
\nthe mansion being referred to is a property rented by the Ekiti State
\nGovernment and being used as Governor\u2019s Lodge.\u201d<\/p>\n
While insisting that whatever properties owned by Governor Fayose were
\nacquired thorough legitimate means, the government said like every
\nother Nigerians, the governor reserved the rights to own properties
\nand can also receive money from people to fund his election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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