Breaking: EFCC freezes Fayose's personal accounts
- Governor lambasts anti-graft agency over recent act on a sitting governor
- Reminds President Buhari of corruption allegations against his (Buhari's) wife
- Says he is not running away from the EFCC, but that they should only come back in 2018
Daily Post reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) has frozen the personal account of Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state.
A source was also said to have disclosed that the governor's account in Zenith Bank in Ekiti as well as those of some of his associates were also frozen by the anti-graft agency.
After visiting the bank at Onigari, GRA area of the state capital, Fayose described the action as illegal and while citing section 308 of the 1999 constitution, the governor stated that the federal government should fight corruption within the ambit of the law, since he enjoys immunity as a sitting governor.
He said: "I got mind of the fact that the EFCC had placed restriction order on my personal account and that of my associates. I came here today and I have been able to see it. This action shows that this government has no respect for the constitution because I enjoy immunity under Section 308.
"I support government fighting corruption, but it has to be within the ambit of the law. You can investigate me, it is their right, but they have to wait till 2018, because I will be done by then. They should not be in a hurry because I will personally come to them for investigation.
"I have become figure in this country that I don’t have anywhere to run to. This rascality of EFCC must stop. If they like, let them investigate the whole world. Is it because they are sitting government now that nobody can ask them question? We will take every legal procedure to get things right.
"I am not leaving this bank until they give meant statement of account. They must put it into writing because EFCC has no right under the law to freeze my account.
"They did not communicate me. They want to destabilize the state and we will use all legal means to make them obey the constitution. They can investigate me, but they can’t coerce me."
The governor therefore urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to see himself as a saint, alleging that his wife, Aisha's alleged involvement in the Jefferson’s Halliburton Scandal in United States under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration has not been forgotten.
Fayose said: "Mrs Buhari was accused of wiring $170,000 to Jefferson’s account and the man has been convicted. So Buhari and APC should not see themselves as saint."
This recent incident is coming following an attack on the President Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop harassing his government by threatening functionaries of the government with arrest and looking for how his election was funded.
He declared: "My election was not funded with public fund and President Buhari and his APC should also tell Nigerians how their own elections were funded."
"Certain top functionaries of the Ekiti State government and some important members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, and some associates of mine, have now been pencilled down for arrest and indefinite detention by the EFCC under the guise of investigating the funds spent by the PDP on the June 21, 2014 governorship election and the Presidential election."
Source: Legit.ng
