The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has queried the source of former president Olusegun Obansanjo’s wealth, claiming that he siphoned public funds and also said President Muhammadu Buhari is clueless about the state of Nigeria’s economy.
Speaking in an interview with Osasu Igbinedion on ‘The Osasu Show’, Fayose, he said “I am the longest-serving governor; I’ve served in Obasanjo’s administration. I told everybody, when Obasanjo left prison, did he declare his assets?
The library now today, where did the money come from,” he asked. “His house that he built in Abeokuta, where did the money come from? Even Buhari himself, he declared cattle herds and mud houses, he said he doesn’t have money. “From which account did the money for the campaign come from?
We are fooling ourselves, because he’s in power today, to say he’s the one prosecuting; somebody else might be there tomorrow. It’s unfortunate that men of honour of yesterday are quiet today.”
He said Obasanjo shared money to senators from his state during his failed third-term plan, adding that, he is a veteran who cannot be scared of Buhari’s anti-corruption war.
“During the third-term agenda that money was given to senators and reps, they were given in my state. It is good for Obasanjo to come on the television every day and celebrate himself, or go to prostrate at the villa. Let me tell you expressly, the truth would find all of us out at some point.”
Quoting Hebrews 13:6, Fayose said he could not be afraid of whatever Buhari could do to him, saying: “…because we have God, we fear not what man would do to us.” Fayose subsequently called on Buhari to “stop the noise about corruption and concentrate on the economy,” saying the president seems to have no plan for diversification while investing billions in the search for oil in the north.
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