Why FG wants to scuttle my presidential ambition – Fayose

Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has
said the imminent defeat of President
Muhammadu Buhari in a free and fair
election in 2019 is the major reason the All
Progressives Congress-led Federal
Government is harassing and intimidating
his aides and associates.

He also said the blunt truth he told
Nigerians during his declaration of interest
that Buhari and the APC had nothing good
to offer Nigeria has pierced the conscience
of APC leaders and given them wounded
heart.

He, however, said he won’t be intimidated
into abandoning a divine project of rescuing
the country from maladministration.
Fayose, who spoke through his Chief Press
Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, on Friday, said
notwithstanding needless harassment,
whoever thought he could stop a moving
train with bare hands would have himself to
blame in the end.

The governor described the arrest of two
officials of the state by agents of the
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) as the height of
impunity, as a court of competent
jurisdiction had kicked against such action.

The governor said the action of the EFCC
was in flagrant disobedience to the orders
of Justice Taiwo. O. Taiwo of the Federal
High Court, Ado-Ekiti in the case of the
Attorney General of Ekiti State versus EFCC,
IGP and 16 others granted on November 7,
2016.

While contending that the order of the court
had not been vacated or appealed by the
agency, the governor added that the
agency’s action showed desperation and
political partisanship, as it had earlier
petitioned against Justice Taiwo asking that
the case be transferred to Akure, Ondo
State.

“The new judge declined jurisdiction
because he held that the EFCC’s case
lacked merit and the case file was returned
to the Chief Judge of the Federal High
Court, who is yet to assign the case.”

“The latest action by the EFCC is therefore
premeditated, malicious, politically
motivated, contemptuous and
unconstitutional in all ramifications. It is
another clear and undisguised evidence of
gangsterism by an agency that derives its
power from the constitution but uses it for
political vendetta against the opposition.”