According to Fayose in a statement by his media aide, Lere Olayinka on Wednesday, the report was a plot by the Federal Government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to implicate him “at all cost.”
The statement reads: “This project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ will definitely not put food on the tables of Nigerians and for all I care, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and its collaborators can keep running from pillar to post while I keep delivering good governance to Ekiti and its people.
“We have gone past this stage of media trial, EFCC should rather keep its gun powder dry, when we get to the bridge, we will cross it. They said more than this in the 2006 poultry scam blackmail, despite that, I am the governor today.
“As far as I am concerned, I am busy here in Ekiti attending to the welfare and well-being of my people. I won’t be distracted,” the governor said.
He said the EFCC should also beam its searchlights on the funding of APC elections.
“Since we are now in the era in which financial assistance from Nigerians to fund elections is being criminalised, the international community, especially those funding EFCC must insist that the commission probes the funding of APC elections before further funds are released to the commission”.
It will recalled that Obanikoro voluntarily presented himself before the EFCC when he arrived Nigeria on Monday.
Obanikoro has been in EFCC custody since then facing interrogation on allegations of corruption and receipt of funds from the Office of the National Security Adviser without contract awards.
He was alleged to have facilitated the disbursement of the funds to Mr. Fayose in the build up to the 2014 election in Ekiti through Biodun Agbele, an associate of the governor.
A report by Punch Newspaper on Wednesday said Mr. Obanikoro had owned up to the EFCC on the transfers.
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