Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose (left), addressing a crowd, during
the Conference of Ekiti State Private Sector Union solidarity rally in
support of the governor, in Ado Ekiti... on Friday. Photo: Ekiti State
Government
A massive crowd of protesters on Friday took to the streets in Ado Ekiti to declare support for Governor Ayodele Fayose.
The protest held under the umbrella of
Ekiti State Private Sector Union came a day after the opposition staged a
similar rally asking the governor to waive his immunity and answer
corruption allegations against him.
The newly formed ESPSU is an amalgamation of all informal unions in the state.
The state Chairman of the National Union
of Road Transport Workers, Mr. Clement Adekola, his counterpart in the
Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria, Mr. Samuel Agbede, and
the leader of Okada Riders Association of Nigeria, Mr. Dahunsi Olaniyi,
were inaugurated as the Chairman, Secretary and Vice Chairman of the
union respectively.
Fayose, who inaugurated the executives,
boasted that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government would crumble
if it waged a war against him under the guise of anti-corruption war.
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has frozen the governor’s accounts with Zenith Bank and some
of his associates after allegedly tracing N4.7bn from the Office of the
National Security Adviser under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) to them and
two sons of a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro.
The governor complained that his current
travails in the hands of the EFCC and allegations of receiving
kickbacks from contractors was masterminded by the All Progressives
Congress for the purpose of dimming the chances of his party during the
2018 governorship poll.
He said, “They said I collected a sum of
N1.3bn from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Col.
Sambo Dasuki to fund my election. Some even said I collected it through
Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro. Let me put it on record that I did not know Col.
Dasuki and Obanikoro has not come out openly to indict me because he has
not returned from abroad.”
courtesy of punch newspaper
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