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<\/p>\nIn a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary, of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP claimed that the \u201cinformation at the party\u2019s disposal and all over the social media indicate that the Presidency has put the commission on alert to arrest the governor at midnight today and detain him indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n
PDP alleged that the directive by the \u201cPresidency is not unconnected with the plot to use the EFCC and other security agencies to incarcerate the governor owing to his persistent criticism of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement added, \u201cThis uncompromising stands of the outgoing governor against the present
\nadministration was the reason Ekiti State was invaded and taken by force during the last governorship election.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy 12 midnight, the governor\u2019s residence is expected to be surrounded by armed men of the EFCC under the pretense that they had information of his plot to escape. This is to achieve their plan to humiliate the governor and portray him in bad light to the public by dramatising his arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerians can recall that it was the governor who offered to submit himself to the EFCC despite the commission\u2019s clear display of bias and partisanship as demonstrated in its various actions, especially its tweets and putting the governor on security watch-list.<\/p>\n
\u201cEFCC even unprofessionally showed its bias in deriding the governor, making light of a very serious matter by mocking him and asking him to come before his tenure elapsed, which the governor declined in line with the constitutional immunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is now beyond dispute that Governor Fayose is not a scoundrel running away from justice. Whatever the EFCC, APC, and the Presidency\u2019s spin-doctors may say, it is also clear to everyone that Fayose is not a coward; neither is he afraid of the EFCC.<\/p>\n
\u201cFayose is prepared and ready to defend himself in the court of law. Neither the Presidency nor EFCC is a court of law. Since the EFCC said it had dusted up Fayose\u2019s files, it should be ready to take him to court once he presents him at the agency\u2019s office on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cGovernor Fayose has offered to walk to the EFCC office by himself and nothing must happen to him tonight. The PDP condemns this resort to fascism by the APC government, saying the whole world should be at alert to see another demonstration of crude disrespect for the rule of law and rights of Nigerians.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday alleged that the \u201cPresidency has directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to incarcerate, indefinitely,\u201d the outgoing governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose. In a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary, of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP claimed that the \u201cinformation at the party\u2019s disposal and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[592],"class_list":["post-52537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ayodele-fayose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}