NIGERIANS ARE MORE INTERESTED IN HAVING FOOD ON THEIR TABLES NOT MEDIA TRIALS - FAYOSE TELLS FG
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has dismissed former minister of state for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro’s alleged confession to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that Fayose received money from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) to fund his election in 2014.
The governor said for the sake of equity, the 2015 campaign funds of the All Progressives Congress (APC) must be probed.
In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said he was only reacting to fulfil all righteousness because Nigerians are more interested in having food on their tables and added, “those who arranged the dramatic and compromised return of Obanikoro to Nigeria obviously did so in continuation of their project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ but I am not bothered because my election was legitimately funded.
Fayose, who said the Federal Government should stop an alleged media trial against him, urged government to pay attention to hunger and suffering ravaging Nigerians.
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The ex-minister was still with the commission. He had earlier admitted giving N1.2 billion to Fayose for his re-election in 2014.
Obanikoro was confronted with evidence of N4.6 billion wired to his son’s firm, Sylva MacNamara from the Office of the National Security Adviser( ONSA) when Col Sambo Dasuki(retrd) was in charge.
He was shown proof of how moved part of the money to Akure, the Ondo state capital en- route Ekiti state for the election of Governor Fayose and to Osogbo, the Osun state capital, where the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore lost to Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
But Obanikoro, it was gathered denied the allegation but claimed that the money from the Office of the National Security Adviser(ONSA) was “to ward off Boko Haram aggression in Lagos and the South West in general.”
Since we are now in the era in which financial assistance from Nigerians to fund elections is being criminalised, the international community, especially those funding EFCC must insist that the commission probes funding of APC elections before further funds are released to the commission.
This project, ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ will definitely not put food on the tables of Nigerians and for all I care, the EFCC and its collaborators can keep running from pillar to post while I keep delivering good governance to Ekiti and its people.
We have gone pass this stage of media trial; EFCC should, rather, keep its gun powder dry. When we get to the bridge, we will cross it. They said more than this in the 2006 poultry scam blackmail. Despite that, I am governor, today.
The ex-minister was still with the commission. He had earlier admitted giving N1.2 billion to Fayose for his re-election in 2014.
Obanikoro was confronted with evidence of N4.6 billion wired to his son’s firm, Sylva MacNamara from the Office of the National Security Adviser( ONSA) when Col Sambo Dasuki(retrd) was in charge.
He was shown proof of how moved part of the money to Akure, the Ondo state capital en- route Ekiti state for the election of Governor Fayose and to Osogbo, the Osun state capital, where the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore lost to Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
But Obanikoro, it was gathered denied the allegation but claimed that the money from the Office of the National Security Adviser(ONSA) was “to ward off Boko Haram aggression in Lagos and the South West in general.”
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