Fayose Replies EFCC, States Why He Won’t Honour Invitation Before Oct. 16

Ekiti state representative Ayodele Fayose says submitting himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for cross examination before October 16 would be an infringement of the 1999 Constitution.

The active representative, in his reaction to a letter from the commission, additionally blamed the counter join organization for contempt towards him.


Fayose had before kept in touch with the EFCC that he would be accessible for cross examination on the previously mentioned date.

The Ekiti senator is being examined for supposedly accepting more than N1.219bn offer of the store implied for buy of arms from ex-clergyman of state for barrier Musiliu Obanikoro amid the development to the 2014 governorship decision in the state.

Complimenting the representative's craving to introduce himself for scrutinizing, the EFCC, in its answer, said it would be happy on the off chance that he went to its central command on 20 September, taking note of that his resistance would not be undermined.

Be that as it may, Fayose, in his reaction on Tuesday, said that would be an infringement of Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (as corrected) which vested insusceptibility on him as a sitting senator.

In the letter routed to acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, the representative thumped the EFCC for "unjustifiable individual scorn and malignance against my individual."

The letter read to a limited extent, "This improvement, most definitely, is frustrating and sells out your bonus' unmerited individual scorn and noxiousness against my individual."

The representative said regarding occasions in the previous couple of months, the EFCC had "Assumed my blame even preceding the initiation of an examination."

"This brings up a difficult issue about the unbiasedness, autonomy or lack of bias of the commission in the issue," he included.