Ekiti State governor, Ayodele
Fayose, has said the imminent defeat of President Muhammadu Buhari in a
free and fair election in 2019 is the major reason the All Progressives
Congress-led Federal Government is harassing and intimidating his aides
and associates...
He also said the blunt truth he told
Nigerians during his declaration of interest that Buhari and the APC had
nothing good to offer Nigeria has pierced the conscience of APC leaders
and given them wounded heart.
He, however, said he won’t be intimidated into abandoning a divine project of rescuing the country from maladministration.
Fayose, who spoke through his Chief Press
Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, on Friday, said notwithstanding needless
harassment, whoever thought he could stop a moving train with bare hands
would have himself to blame in the end.
The governor described the arrest of two
officials of the state by agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) as the height of impunity, as a court of competent
jurisdiction had kicked against such action.
The governor said the action of the EFCC
was in flagrant disobedience to the orders of Justice Taiwo. O. Taiwo of
the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti in the case of the Attorney General
of Ekiti State versus EFCC, IGP and 16 others granted on November 7,
2016.
While contending that the order of the
court had not been vacated or appealed by the agency, the governor added
that the agency’s action showed desperation and political partisanship,
as it had earlier petitioned against Justice Taiwo asking that the case
be transferred to Akure, Ondo State.
“The new judge declined jurisdiction
because he held that the EFCC’s case lacked merit and the case file was
returned to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, who is yet to
assign the case.”
“The latest action by the EFCC is
therefore premeditated, malicious, politically motivated, contemptuous
and unconstitutional in all ramifications. It is another clear and
undisguised evidence of gangsterism by an agency that derives its power
from the constitution but uses it for political vendetta against the
opposition.”
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