Fayemi: Your panel can’t stand legal scrutiny, APC tells Fayose

By Rotimi Ojomoyela

Ado Ekiti

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has said the report of panel of enquiry set up by Ekiti government to probe financial transactions during the administration of Dr Kayode Fayemi cannot stand legal scrutiny in the court of law.
In a statement in Ado-Ekiti, the party’s Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, dismissed the report of the panel describing it as a product of a premeditated script by a panel of Fayemi’s haters who were acting the script of Governor Fayose bent on ruining the reputation of Fayemi, the current Minister of Mines and Steel Development.
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry, while submitting it’s report to Governor Fayose on Wednesday had indicted Fayemi over misappropriation of the state funds, asking him to explain the whereabouts of N2.75 billion among other sundry alleged financial heists.
The said sum, according to the panel, was allocated from the N25 billion bond obtained by the government for the execution of contract for the construction of Ultra-Modern market in Ado Ekiti, which the body alleged was never executed.
But Olatunbosun said the report was nothing but a direct opposite of what the former governor represented in government but who Fayose had launched a satanic attempt to ruin his reputation.
“Fayemi ran transparent and people-oriented programmes targeted at making Ekiti greater with strong economic base.
“The predetermined politically orchestrated kangaroo panel of enquiry set up to implement a scripted blackmail can’t stand a judicial scrutiny that will throw it to a dustbin of history in Nigerian judiciary composed of people who value their integrity.
“Fayose’s government is a failure and therefore always looking for a distraction to deceive the public and particularly the people of Ekiti State. Fayose has impoverished Ekiti people by his refusal to pay ekiti workers and pensioners several months of salaries and pensions.
“Fayose is on daily basis committing heinous crimes against the people of Ekiti and I assure him the long arms of the law will catch up with him no matter how fast he thinks he can run.
“Dr. Kayode Fayemi is doing well as a Minister of the Federal Republic representing Ekiti State. We are proud of him as our son in Buhari ‘s cabinet who has been receiving awards of excellence for his unprecedented performance in making the dream of diversifying the nation’s economy in the area of mining a reality.
“It is not such a shining star that Fayose, who everyone knows is a rabble rouser and cloudy character, should rubbish because Fayose is only interested in denting the rising profile of Dr. Fayemi and hence wishes to create a wrong and misleading impression in the eyes of the public that Fayemi is a thief whereas he is not.
“The case in question is in three courts and what Fayose has done by going on with his kangaroo panel with a specific mandate to indict Fayemi is a contempt of court.
“Fayose has run the state aground through his many unexplainable and dubious financial transactions over which many of his officials have been invited for questioning by the EFCC.
“No amount of hit and run tactics which Fayose is known for can portray Fayemi in bad light in the eyes of Ekiti people who knew how life was meaningful to them under his glorious tenure.
“No amount of tactics will make Fayose escape the long arms of the law and we wish the men, both Fayemi’s haters and PDP members on the panel, who allowed themselves to be used for this thirty job good luck as history records them in where they rightly deserve in history books of Ekiti State”, part of the statement said.

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