Federal Government Should Leave Me Alone And Face The Hunger In The Land - Gov. Fayose

Mr. Ayodele Fayose, The Executive Governor of Ekiti State, has asked the Federal Government to steer clear his matter and focus on tackling the high rate of  hunger and suffering bedeviling the nation and its citizenry. While maintaining that the threats and desperate measures of the ruling government to nail him coupled with the use of anti-graft agency against him cannot deter him from delivering his promise of goodlife to the Ekiti people who voted him into power.

The Ekiti state Chief executive said these while reacting to media reports that a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, confessed to the EFCC that he gave him N2.3bn in the run-up to the Ekiti 2014 governorship election.

On the flip side, the anti-graft agency had alleged the money was part of funds received from the Office of the National Security Adviser under Col Sambo Dasuki (retd.) to fund his election.

In his words, Fayose said: “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 the governor today.”

“Those who arranged the dramatic and compromised return of Senator 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.

“However, if this is why they are intimidating judges and the judiciary, it won’t work as far as my own matter is concerned as no one can play God.

“As far as I am concerned, I am busy here in Ekiti attending to the welfare and well-being of my people. I won’t be distracted.”

The avowed Buhari critic went on to task the EFCC to also focus on the funding of the All Progressives Congress elections since financial assistance from Nigerians to fund elections is an offence as it were.

“The international community, especially those funding EFCC must insist that the commission probes the funding of APC elections before further funds are released to the commission,” he demanded.