‘EFCC Invitation Won’t Allow Me To Attend Fayemi’s Swearing-In’

Outgoing Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose has said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) invitation will not allow him to attend Tuesday’s swearing-in of the governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. Fayose said his scheduled appearance at EFCC’s Abuja Headquarters falls on the same day Dr Fayemi will be sworn in at Ekiti Parapo Pavilion, Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. He also vowed to attend any commission or panel of enquiry anywhere on how he managed the state’s treasury during his four-year tenure. Addressing reporters at a valedictory briefing, tagged: State of…

Fayose Threatens To Dump PDP

The outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has threatened to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after the National Convention held on Saturday in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. Punch reports that the governor hinted the paper’s correspondent on Monday that he would renounce his “membership of the PDP anytime from now.” He added, “After consultations, I will speak clearly to Nigerians”

Kalu To Fayose: You’re My Boy, You Can’t Stop Me From Campaigning For Buhari In Ekiti

A former governor of Abia State and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the National Movement for the Re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has described the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, as his boy. Kalu said this in response to the position of Fayose that he should not visit Ekiti State as part of his scheduled tour of the South West to campaign for a second term for Buhari. Kalu, who defied Fayose and showed up in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Sunday, told…

Ekiti 2018: Your stolen N8bn can’t buy Ekiti people’s votes, PDP tells Fayemi

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has said no amount of stolen money deployed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) will buy the votes of the people in the July 14 governorship election. The State Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Jackson Adebayo, made this known on Thursday, while reacting to media report that Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi had boasted of providing N8 billion from his own pocket and the assurance of N20 billion from the Presidency to buy one vote at N20,000.…

Fayose: God Directed Me To Pick My Deputy As Successor

Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose, at a PDP rally on Monday in Ado Ekiti, declared that God directed him to support his Deputy, Kolapo Olusola-Eleka, to succeed him. “Olusola never said he wanted to be deputy governor, but God instructed me to pick him. I said we will go together after our tenure, but God said I should allow him to stay; that what I said was my own opinion,” Fayoe told the huge crowd. A former minister of state for works, Dayo Adeyeye, a serving senator, Mrs. Biodun Olujimi,…

Ekiti Govt Denies plan to Close Adeyeye’s radio station, says Station’s mast built without approval

The Ekiti State government has denied a report on its plan to shut down a Radio station belonging to a governorship aspirant and Chieftain of People Democratic Party, PDP,Prince Dayo Adeyeye. In a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Environment, Hon (Chief) Bisi Kolawole, the state said the report was not only false, but baseless, irresponsible and a calculated attempt to whip up unnecessary sentiment against the State government to prevent it from carrying out its responsibility of protecting the lives of the people. The statement reads “The attention…

Falana: EFCC Replies To Fayose

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reacted to an attempt by the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, to impugn the integrity of its Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, over the management of assets recovered from pension fraud suspects. The governor, who addressed the media today in Ado Ekiti, was quoted as saying that respected Lagos lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, “was one of many highly placed Nigerians who allegedly were compensated by the EFCC and Ibrahim Magu with properties retrieved from corrupt government officials.” This is the…