The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has on Sunday, June 19, obtained a master revealing plan by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, to destabilise the State, by arresting his Chief of Staff, Chief Dipo Anisulowo.
Fayose, said that four unnamed members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly are also slated for arrest, and indefinite detention for treason.
The Governor, spoke at a press conference which was held on Sunday, in Abuja, where he further alleged that the plot was being hatched by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal and an unnamed Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN.
“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 Governor of the State.
“Activities of these elements, who 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, 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 the State, as well as some associates of mine, have now been penciled 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 and 2015 Presidential elections.
“The game plan is to make those to be arrested and get detained indefinitely, forced to make statements incriminating me, while at the same time feeding members of the public with orchestrated fake reports, using their usual media organs.
“This is coming after their failure to use the Department of State Security, 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.
“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”.
He added: “I wish to state unequivocally, that no amount of intimidation, harassment, investigation, coercion would make me stop speaking on behalf of the common people, who freely gave their mandate to the APC, who are now daily failing them.
“Nigerians must therefore, begin to ask the EFCC, why it has refused to act on petitions against members. Why is EFCC only interested in how PDP funded its elections?” Fayose stated.