Ayodele fayose transferred to Lagos for trial

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has transferred former governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose transferred from his Abuja office to Lagos state where he will be tried at a Federal High Court on Monday October 22nd 2018.

Ayodele Fayose payed a visit to the anti-graft agency's office on Tuesday, October 16th 2018, to response his interrogations regarding his connection to the $2.1 billion arms procurement funds. He is supposed to have received N1.3 billion from the office of the former National Security officer, Sambo Dasuki, through Musiliu Obanikoro for the rigging of the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti state.
The Nation reports that EFCC representative, Wilson Uwujaren, who established the filing of charges against Ayodele Fayose, said

“Fayose has been served with charges alongside his company, Spotless.”

Reacting to the development, the spokesperson of the former governor, Lere Olayinka, said Fayose is waiting to be charged to court, whenever the EFCC is ready. He claimed that the EFCC does not have evidence to prosecute the ex-governor.


“With the deafening noise that they made about the evidence of corruption in their possession and even going by the EFCC ignoble tweet of July 15, 2018, in which the commission expressed its readiness to prosecute the former governor immediately he no longer enjoyed immunity, Nigerians had expected that by now, he will be facing trial in court.


“However, because the EFCC does not have any evidence against Fayose, the commission has opted to keep him in detention so as to satisfy its paymasters whose major agenda is ‘Fayose must be kept out of circulation by whatever means.’


“If not that they are just interested in keeping him out of circulation, why is the anti-graft commission not in court to prosecute him with the ‘overwhelming evidence’ it claimed to have?” he said