The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) on Monday alleged that the “Presidency has directed the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to incarcerate, indefinitely,” the outgoing
governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose.
In a statement issued by the
National Publicity Secretary, of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP claimed that
the “information at the party’s disposal and all over the social media indicate
that the Presidency has put the commission on alert to arrest the governor at
midnight today and detain him indefinitely.”
PDP alleged that the directive by
the “Presidency is not unconnected with the plot to use the EFCC and other
security agencies to incarcerate the governor owing to his persistent criticism
of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government.”
The statement added, “This
uncompromising stands of the outgoing governor against the present
administration was the reason
Ekiti State was invaded and taken by force during the last governorship
election.
“By 12 midnight, the governor’s
residence is expected to be surrounded by armed men of the EFCC under the
pretense that they had information of his plot to escape. This is to achieve
their plan to humiliate the governor and portray him in bad light to the public
by dramatising his arrest.
“Nigerians can recall that it was
the governor who offered to submit himself to the EFCC despite the commission’s
clear display of bias and partisanship as demonstrated in its various actions,
especially its tweets and putting the governor on security watch-list.
“EFCC even unprofessionally
showed its bias in deriding the governor, making light of a very serious matter
by mocking him and asking him to come before his tenure elapsed, which the
governor declined in line with the constitutional immunity.
“It is now beyond dispute that
Governor Fayose is not a scoundrel running away from justice. Whatever the
EFCC, APC, and the Presidency’s spin-doctors may say, it is also clear to
everyone that Fayose is not a coward; neither is he afraid of the EFCC.
“Fayose is prepared and ready to
defend himself in the court of law. Neither the Presidency nor EFCC is a court
of law. Since the EFCC said it had dusted up Fayose’s files, it should be ready
to take him to court once he presents him at the agency’s office on Tuesday.
“Governor Fayose has offered to
walk to the EFCC office by himself and nothing must happen to him tonight. The
PDP condemns this resort to fascism by the APC government, saying the whole
world should be at alert to see another demonstration of crude disrespect for
the rule of law and rights of Nigerians.”
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