I’ll meet you in court by 2018, Fayose tells EFCC, APC

The embattled Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has asked the EFCC, and its ‘collaborators’ in the All Progressives Congress, APC, to wait till 2018 when he would confront their lies.

He said he would meet them in court by 2018 to challenge what he described as lies.

The governor, who said he is not moved by the current media trial adopted by the EFCC against him, said the anti-graft agency did worse things in 2006 but that he confronted their cooked up stories on the poultry project in court and the EFCC failed to justify the allegations.

Fayose, who spoke through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, alleged that the EFCC has been cooking up stories to tarnish his image.

He said: “If what the EFCC and its collaborators are now relying on is a driver or a source in EFCC that is speaking for Zenith Bank, and not the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) that they claimed gave the former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro money to give me, goodluck to them.

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“The EFCC and its spin doctors can continue to cook up stories and feed their collaborators in the media. The media trial can continue unabated, I am not moved. I am more focused, more resolute, I don’t lose battles. The one that they did in 2006 did not ultimately prevent me from having a second term as governor of Ekiti State and whatever they are doing now will also not stop me from handing over to a Peoples Democratic Party governor in 2018.

“I will meet them in court and the whole world will again listen to their feeble stories as it happened in poultry saga.”

The governor also queried why politicians from the state are now resuming in EFCC offices in Lagos and Abuja and writing stories for them if not that the APC was acting the script of the APC to force him out of office or discredit him before the 2018 governorship election.

“When you read reports in their newspapers, the words and presentation are always the same and one wonders whether the two national dailies and the online medium they are using to spew their lies usually get their stories from the same source and the source even writes the stories for them just for their reporters to put their names as bylines.”

By Timothy Enietan-Matthews …

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