To the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, it didn’t rain. It poured! Few days after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) leveled 11 count charges against him at a Federal High Court,Lagos, the anti-graft agency Thursday, sealed his properties in Ado_Ekiti, Ekiti State.
Fayose was arraigned by the anti-graft agency at the Federal High Court, Lagos, on October 22 on 11 counts over alleged N6.9 billion fraud. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges, and the court granted him bail in the sum of N50 million with one surety in like sum.
The former governor, while reacting to EFCC’s action, accused the anti-graft body of “sealing innocent people’s houses.”
“It is only in our country that an anti corruption agency will first go about sealing houses before determining the ownership, which can be done so easily by visiting relevant agencies,” Fayose said.
He also alleged that the anti-graft agency is working with the ruling All Progressives Congress government in Ekiti in another “wild goose chase and the usual media campaign” against him.
Fayose, in a statement released by him media aide, Lere Olayinka said none of the properties in question is owned by him .
“The EFCC is advised to stop going about lookimg for ways to malign my person just because of their hatred as a result of my uncompromising stance on national issues,” the statement read. “Even if the commission is being pressured from above to persecute Fayose at all costs, it should at least, do its job diligently to save itself from persistent embarrassment.”