No One Can Stop Me From Talking Freely – Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose has said that no amount of intimidation can prevent him from speaking his mind.

Fayose also accused the Muhammadu Buhari administration of using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to persecute its enemies.

The governor made the comments while addressing journalists in Abuja on Sunday, June 20, 2016.

Read Fayose’s address below:

I called you here to intimate the public through your various medium, the new clandestine plot by the President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government to destabilise the Ekiti State Government, using the instrumentalities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Recall that a lot has been said about my election. First they said it was photochromic and later militarization. The election was challenged up to the Supreme Court and I came out victorious. Remember too that international observers including the US Govt applauded the election.

However, those who lost the election adjudged as free, fair and credible are yet to accept the will of God and the people of Ekiti State. A few days ago, we got it on good authority that there was a meeting with some politicians from Ekiti State, including an Ekiti born Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and self-professed human rights activist by agents of the Federal government, with the agenda solely, on how to bring down my administration as the governor of the state.

Activities of these elements that are obviously afraid of facing another electoral defeat in 2018 are being coordinated through the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal and the Attorney General of the Federation.

Certain top functionaries of the Ekiti State government and some important members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, and some associates of mine, have now been pencilled down for arrest and indefinite detention by the EFCC under the guise of investigating the funds spent by the PDP on the June 21, 2014 governorship election and the Presidential election.

The game plan is to make those to be arrested get detained indefinitely, forced to make statements incriminating me, while at the same time feeding the public with orchestrated fake reports, using their usual media organs.

This is coming after their failure to use the Department of State Services (DSS) to coerce members of the State House of Assembly to buy into the impeachment plot against me with a view to silencing me being a major voice of the opposition.

The plot to arrest and detain indefinitely my Chief of Staff, Chief Dipo Anisulowo and four honourable members of the state House of Assembly for treason. To achieve this sinister plot against the government and people of Ekiti State, we have been informed that some of their trusted allies in the EFCC have been mobilised to move to Ekiti any moment from now.

I, however, wish to advise them to keep their gun powder dry and should not be in a hurry, but rather, wait till the end of my tenure in 2018. As a man known to keeping to his words, I want to assure them that I will be available to answer any of their questions, no matter how unreasonable.

While we are not afraid of persecution from anyone or government agency, including the EFCC and DSS, I wish to state that the level at which the Buhari-led Federal Government is taking political vendetta and muzzling of opposition both in the PDP and within the APC, is dangerous to the survival of democracy in the country.