Posted on: 07:55 Sat, 09 Jul 2016



The deputy National Chairman
(South) of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, Engr. Segun Oni, has
urged Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti
State to explain how he came about
the billions of naira found in his
bank accounts.

The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, had frozen the
Ekiti governor’s personal bank
accounts with Zenith Bank after it
traced multi-billion naira payments
from the Office of the National
Security Adviser (ONSA) to the
accounts.

Oni, who spoke on a live interview
programme “Heart of the Matter”
on ADABA 88.9 FM monitored on
Friday, berated Fayose for
attempting to hide under immunity
to “play games” with the
commonwealth of Ekiti people.

The APC chieftain, himself a former
governor of the state, insisted that
Gov. Fayose has a lot of
explanations to give on the
management of public funds.

He described the emergence of
Fayose as the governor in the June
21, 2014 governorship election as a
“very costly mistake” for all Ekiti
people, stressing that the state
needs to be rebuilt as soon as the
incumbent’s tenure ends in 2018.

Mr. Oni also absolved Ekiti people
of blame for electing Fayose as
their governor for a second term,
saying the June 21, 2014
governorship poll in the state was
not ordinary as latest revelations
have not only proved that it was
neither free nor fair, but it was
massively rigged.

He also queried what the governor
was doing with N250million
monthly security vote when
according to him, “the state is not
at war”.

The ex-governor also said the EFCC
was empowered by law to freeze
accounts where slush funds and
other funds which do not pass the
integrity test are kept to sanitize
the system and to show to the
whole world that nobody is above
the law.

He said: “I cannot imagine where
he (Fayose) got the money (in the
frozen accounts), does he have an
oil well? Anybody who cannot
explain his wealth; that I have this
so so amount in this account and
this is how I got it, must be made to
account for such funds.

“He is shouting about immunity,
immunity what? Immunity to
continue to steal? Let him address
the issue of stealing, people may
call it various names like
embezzlement of what have you but
theft has no other name. If
somebody wears a good cloth and
he was discovered to have stolen,
he is wearing the cloth of a thief.

“Immunity was put in the
Constitution so that elected chief
executives can do their jobs without
distractions but not to the extent of
stealing, immunity does not say the
person in question cannot be
investigated. Let him be
investigated, his prosecution is
waiting for him when he finishes
his tenure.

“Talking about the IGR accounts,
those accounts are only known to
Fayose and this is wrong. Fayose
should come out and tell the people.

This guy cannot be transparent
because he is dubious and that is
why everything is shrouded in
secrecy. He cannot be transparent
because he is dubious.

“Fayose was a very costly mistake
for all of us, whatever we didn’t do
right, he is the least qualified
person to rule any state. His
education and work experience are
too low to be considered for the
office of the governor and all of us
are now paying for that mistake.

“I believe the elite will learn from
the mistakes, people should not be
talking on the social media only,
they should go to the grassroots to
back their words with action and
that was what the Osun people did”.