The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) mocked Governor Fayose on Twitter and also hinted at a possible arrest yesterday.
The anti-graft did this in reaction to PDP’s defeat in the Ekiti elections which saw Fayemi win in 12 out of 16 local governments areas
The EFCC Twitter account posted a picture of a failed poultry project of Fayose’s in which he was accused of syphoning money from the project. This was before his second stint as governor, however, he was protected by his immunity as a governor and could not be arrested while he was in office as governor.
They captioned the post on Twitter with: The parri is over; The cloak of immunity torn apart, and the staff broken. #EkitiIntegrated Poultry Project/Biological Concepts Limited N1.3bn fraud case file dusted off the shelves. See you soon.
Meanwhile, the deputy governor of the state and PDP aspirant, Professor Kolapo Olubunmi Olusola, rejected the results of the elections stating that he won 70% of the votes.
Speaking to newsmen after his defeat, Olusola said: “PDP and I won the election overwhelmingly, receiving more than 70 per cent of lawful votes cast and winning in almost all of the State’s 16 local government areas.
“I therefore reject the falsified results being bandied by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which purportedly gave the election to the All Progressives Congress and its Candidate, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi.”
He claimed that the elections were manipulated by the APC to favour them adding: “the APC leveraged on its well-advertised but patently obnoxious and anti-democratic “Federal might” to intimidate, harass, victimize, oppress, and brutalize PDP leaders, members, and the voting public all over Ekiti.
“This brutal and barbaric process, which started well before the election, did not spare Governor Ayo Fayose and me; as the whole world had seen and had condemned. It is quite unfortunate that the harassment has continued even after the election.
“On Saturday, July 14th, the security agencies and INEC upped the ante, threw all caution to the wind, went back on their promises to be impartial and to conduct credible elections; they sided with APC and Fayemi to the chagrin of our party, myself, and the good people of Ekiti State.
“Despite the alarm we had earlier raised, the security agencies not only supported but also supervised the indiscriminate arrest of our party leaders and agents; the harassment and brutalization of voters on a massive scale, especially in Ado-Ekiti, Ikere and the suburbs.
“Giving cover, tacit as well as active support to thugs imported into Ekiti by APC to snatch ballot boxes, create confusion, cause mayhem, and drive away voters in PDP strongholds; giving cover to APC agents as they financially and openly induced voters and bought votes at polling stations; and driving away our polling agents from collation centres and illegal seizure of documents and materials in their possession, among many other infractions.”
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