Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti, says governors
deserve some respect from Ibrahim Magu, acting
chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), “and his gang”.
In a statement by Lere Olayinka, special assistant on
public communications and new media to the
governor, Fayose accused the EFCC of blackmailing
the governors over Paris Club refund.
He said the anti-graft agency had been attacking
Abdulaziz Yari, his Zamfara counterpart in an attempt
to ridicule all the governors.
Yari is the chairman of the Nigerian governors’ forum
(NGF).
“The EFCC is obviously blackmailing state governors
on the Paris Club refunds,” the statement read.
“Governors in Nigeria deserve some level of respect
from Magu and his gangs in the EFCC. Rushing to
court to seek forfeiture of property on which no one
had been convicted and maligning the NGF chairman
is to say the least, irresponsible.
“This persistent media trial is the reason EFCC has
lost most of the high-profile corruption cases at the
law courts.
“For instance, EFCC was the one that investigated and
it was the one that went to court to file ex-parte
application, seeking interim forfeiture of N500m and
$500,000 it claimed was looted from the Paris Club
refunds. No defence from any of the accused.
“Yet, governor Yari is already being presented to the
public as a thief by the EFCC. This irresponsibility
must stop because these attacks on the person of
NGF chairman by Magu and by extension the entire
governors in Nigeria must stop.”
Fayose said it it was absurd that the federal
government which “illegally used money belonging to
the states and local governments for its own
purposes” was the one giving conditions as to how the
refund must be spent.
TheCable
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