The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of involvement in several illegal fund transfers.
The APC chapter asked Governor Ayodele Fayose to explain how he got N650m to purchase a land allegedly transferred to the retired chief of defence staff, Air Vice Marshal Alex Badeh.
A witness in the trial Alex Badeh, disclosed to the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, May 23, that Fayose was the owner of a N650m land that was purchased by the former chief of defence staff, who is facing criminal trial over division of money meant for the purchase of arms.
Taiwo Olatunbosun, the spokesman for the APC Ekiti state chapter, said the several allegations of illegal fund transfers included the $35 million he allegedly got from the Office of the national security adviser to fund his election.
He said: “Fayose has refused to tell Ekiti people the details of his assets after he was sworn in and of course we have been vindicated in our claim that the governor was involved in the arms purchase fraud through which billions of naira were ferried to Ekiti to rig his election.
“This is also a confirmation of alleged keeping of billions of naira in alleged specially-designed save made in South Africa where proceeds of frauds are kept in Afao-Ekiti.
“In his first term, anti-crime agencies discovered that the governor made anticipatory declaration of assets, including his Iyaganku mansion in Ibadan.
“The site of that property was a thick forest when Fayose became a governor as discovered by the EFCC and DSS in their reports on the governor’s assets declaration form,” Olatunbosun explained.