The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, is heading to the court against Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and his grouse is that the anti-corruption agency is yet to pay the N10 million awarded against it in his favour by the court since 2009.
Special Assistant to the governor on public communications and new media, Lere Olayinka, disclosed this on Wednesday when he revealed that the governor has prepared to file a writ of fifa against the EFCC.
Olayinka said his boss secured judgment against the EFCC for trespass and intrusion of his properties.
“Up till today, the N10 million damages awarded against EFCC since 2009 has not been paid and he is in the process of filing a writ of fifa against the agency,” Olayinka, who was reacting to calls by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti that Fayose should declare his assets publicly like President Muhammadu Buhari did days ago, said.
He also used the opportunity to rubbish Buhari’s assets declaration, calling it a deceit and adding that the president under declared his assets.
Olayinka thus counselled the APC in Ekiti State to tell President Buhari to properly declare his assets and publicly too as he promised Nigerians during the campaigns, rather than for the party to ask Fayose to declare his assets publicly.
The governor’s media aide said Fayose was comfortable before becoming a governor.
“He (Fayose) is not a deceitful person who goes about parading mud houses and cattle herds as assets for cheap political publicity,” Olayinka told the APC.
“Governor Fayose has declared his assets as provided by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and whoever that is not satisfied can approach the Court or the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) for copy of his assets declaration form.l
He said the APC was only raising issues on the governor’s already declared assets because of Fayose’s critical stand against Buhari.
“Unlike President Buhari, Governor Fayose will never shy away from what he owns, he will never deny his assets because he acquired them legitimately.
“The governor does not need the easy and cheap excitement of declaring mud houses or herds of cows as assets for the applause of the gullible.
“We know where everybody, including President Buhari wealth are hidden and the APC should not provoke the governor to such an extent that he will begin to reveal their hidden assets.
“Nigerians demanded that President Buhari must declare his assets publicly because that was what the President promised when he was seeking the people’s votes.
“It was part of President Buhari’s electoral promises that his assets will be declared publicly and up till today, he has not done that.
“We have only been told that the President, whom they said was poor to the extent that he had to take bank loan to buy his party’s nomination, is now the owner of a mini estate in Asokoro, Abuja that is worth over N3 billion.
“The APC should rather explain to Nigerians how a man they said had no houses anywhere apart from Daura and Kaduna suddenly become owner of houses and landed properties in Kano, Abuja and Port Harcourt.
“They should also tell Nigerians what happened when President Buhari headed Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and why they lied to Nigerians that the president was poor, thereby obtaining Nigerians votes by trick,” added Olayinka, who described Fayose as legally ‘clean’.
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“Therefore, the APC should tell President Buhari to come out clean to Nigerians because it is clear that he is not the poor man he was presented to be.”
