Election funding: I stand by my story — Fayose

Ado-Ekiti—Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has reacted to the alleged denial of the involvement of a second generation bank in the funding of his election in 2014, saying the bank should come out with an official statement on the matter.

The governor was reacting to a news report in the media claiming that the bank had dissociated itself from the funding of his election. Speaking through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, in Ado Ekiti yesterday, the governor said, “I stand by my claim that the bank majorly funded my election in June 2014.

”Rather, I expect it to issue an official statement not as feeble as this one being peddled in the media so that I can begin the second stage of my revelations. ”My statement was made in the open and if I can accuse an institution like that in the open, I expect the institution to give official reply.

”All what have been claimed to have been said by the bank in the media can be situated in the realm of rumour. ”And I want to refer the All Progressives Congress, APC, the bank and the EFCC to John chapter 8 verses 6-7, which says;

“This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. “When they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said unto them, he that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

“Let those orchestrating this know that failure awaits them.” EFCC is harassing me over falsehood – Omisore Meantime, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday accused the EFCC of witch-hunting him and devising plots to nail him at all cost. Omisore also denied the fresh allegation by the EFCC that N1.3 billion Naira was stashed in his bank account.

Omisore in a statement said, “It is very unfortunate that the EFCC won’t stop at anything to blackmail all the opposition figures and I stand by my word that I never collected a penny or have any dealings with Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA. EFCC won’t stop at any height in its bid to blackmail the opposition.

‘’My appearance on a national television programme has provided another means of falsehood to harass me. ‘’Only yesterday morning, I accused EFCC of dodging court summons. I didn’t collect any money from ONSA.

I have not had any dealings with the ONSA. Last time, it was N700 million, today, it’s N1.3 billion.’’