Fayose Writes EFCC: "I'll Surrender To You Next Month"

In a rather bold move, the governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Ayodele Fayose, has announced his decision to surrender himself to the anti-graft agency,

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), at the expiration of his tenure of office in October.

The EFCC had in July this year posted on its Twitter handle, @officialEFCC that it had dusted a N1.3 billion fraud case filed against Fayose.

In his Twitter post, EFCC had written;

"The parri (party) is over, the cloak of immunity torn apart and the staff broken.

“Ekiti Integrated Poultry Project/Biological concepts Limited N1.3 billion fraud case file dusted off the shelves. See you soon."

The post was accompanied with the photograph of what looks like a dilapidated poultry structure.

The EFCC post surfaced hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the results of the July 14, 2018 governorship election in the state in which Fayose’s candidate, Prof. Kolapo Olusola-Eleka of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost to Mr Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC). 

There had been rumours of planned arrest of Fayose by the EFCC as soon as his tenure expires and he no longer enjoys immunity from arrest.

Meanwhile, the governor, in the letter published above, notifies the EFCC of his readiness to make himself available on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 a day after the end of his tenure as governor 'to clarify issues or answer questions on issues within my knowledge'.

-Ademola Alade