The Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission has lampooned Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti
State after the failure of his preferred candidate, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, at
the polls.
The EFCC
said in a tweet that with Fayose’s tenure ending in less than three months
coupled with the loss of his immunity, he should begin to prepare to visit the
commission.
The
commission hinted that investigation into Fayose’s alleged N1.3bn poultry project
during his first term from 2003 to 2006, would be reopened and the prosecution
would be able to continue
The tweet
read, “The parri (party) is over; the cloak of immunity torn apart and the
staff broken.
“Ekiti
Integrated Poultry Project/Biological concepts Limited N1.3bn fraud case file
dusted off the shelves. See you soon.”
However, a
large section of Nigerians on Twitter accused the EFCC of being unprofessional
and fighting a one-sided anti-corruption war.
The
anti-graft agency subsequently deleted the tweet.
Fayose has
been having a running battle with the EFCC since 2007 but it intensified in
2016 after it was discovered that the governor, while running for office in
2014, allegedly received over N1.3bn from the then Minister of State for Defence,
Musiliu Obanikoro, who is now a member of the All Progressives Congress.
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