We’ll Resist Fayose’s Corruption Probe Of Fayemi – APC Chieftain

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has been warned by Mr. Bamidele Faparusi, a governorship aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, against probing his predecessor, Kayode Fayemi.

Governor Fayose had, on Monday, constituted a panel with the view of probing financial misappropriation allegedly perpetrated between October 2010 to October 2014 by Fayemi’s administration.

But Faparusi, in a statement on Wednesday, said any attempt by Fayose to ridicule the former governor and current Mines and Steel Minister, will be resisted.

The governorship aspirant further argued that the Fayose’s probe of Fayemi at this point in time was a “predetermined and well-orchestrated attempt to ridicule” Fayemi and the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“What have Fayose and assembly been doing for the past three years before waking from their deep slumber to know that Fayemi must be probed? Fayose is gradually turning Ekiti into a huge laboratory where all sorts of political experiments, shoddy ones for that matter were being carried out.”

Speaking on Fayose’s alleged third term bid, Faparusi said: “The governor should have known that he cannot be entitled to third term in office, neither can the oath of office be administered on him three times.

“What former Governor Nyako wanted to achieve was to finish the remaining nine months of his second term tenure before he was ousted and the Supreme Court was so unequivocal that since that dispensation had lapsed, he could only be entitled to the benefits and that has become a functus officio as far as this case is concerned.

“Governor Fayose should refrain from wasting the precious time of the court by wanting to engage in mere academic exercise that has no legal fecundity, having been earlier determined by the apex court,” he said.