Fayose to be discharged and acquitted in the alleged N1.3bn poultry project

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose
The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State
has debunked claims by Governor Ayodele
Fayose that he had been discharged and
acquitted by the Federal High Court in the
alleged N1.3bn poultry project.
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission filed the fraud case against the
governor in 2005.
The state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo
Olatunbosun, said in a statement on
Thursday that the governor had been
misleading the public for long about the
status of the case still pending in the
Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti.
According to him, the matter was only
transferred from Lagos to the Ado Ekiti
division of the court for jurisdiction.
He challenged the governor to provide the
court’s enrollment order discharging him on
the poultry project case to convince the
public.
Olatunbosun said the party’s reaction to
the governor’s claim became necessary to
draw public attention to the true position of
the matter.
“It is regrettable that Fayose has made lies
and falsehood a major plank of the state
policy of his government.
“There is no iota of truth in Fayose’s claim
of acquittal as no court has delivered
judgment on the matter, which is still
pending before the Federal High Court, Ado-
Ekiti.
“The case was last heard by Mr Justice
Adamu Hobon of the Federal High Court,
Ado-Ekiti, where EFCC gave a blow-by-blow
incontrovertible evidence of how Fayose
used Biological Concepts Limited owned by
his friend, Gbenga James, to defraud Ekiti
State of N1.3bn to build houses and
purchase a car for his mother.
“After that sitting, what Fayose did was to
approach the Supreme Court for an
interlocutory injunction to frustrate the trial.
This is not the same thing as being
discharged and acquitted over a matter that
judgment is yet to be given,” he explained.
Olatunbosun said that the matter had
reached the stage of exchange of
addresses to be followed by judgment
shortly before Fayose emerged as the
Governor elect in June 2014.

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