APC to Fayose: Disclose your share of diverted N1.4b arms cash

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has challenged Governor Ayodele Fayose to tell the people of the state how much he got from the N1.4 billion allegedly collected from the Office of the National Security Adviser by a  former minister from the South West, now at large, to prosecute the controversial Ekiti State gubernatorial election of June 2014.
In a statement by the Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party said it was clear that Fayose collected part of the arms cash that was mindlessly diverted by former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), to prosecute the last fraudulent governorship election in the state.
Olatunbosun said: “We are aware that Fayose at that time acquired a N750 million building in a choice area of Abuja from the proceeds of this fund.
“We are equally aware that Fayose submitted a bill of N30 billion to the then President Goodluck Jonathan as the amount he would require to unseat then Governor Kayode Fayemi.
“A certain amount was approved for the project out of which the soldiers, who were used to rig the election, were paid as well as INEC officials who released the soft copies of sensitive materials to Fayose to enable him have advantage over other candidates.
“It is curious that when a newspaper reported that N1.4billion was traced to a former minister to prosecute Ekiti and Osun elections, it was the same time the said minister sneaked out of the country to pursue further education while his accomplice, Governor Fayose, also travelled out about the same time.
“We are demanding that Governor Fayose should come out and tell Ekiti people how much he received from the Armsgate money and the property he acquired with the fund while we also call on the EFCC to beam its searchlight on Fayose to know how much is traceable to him and a governor in a  neighbouring state who coordinated the disbursements of the funds with which the Ekiti election was rigged with the connivance of the military.”
The APC spokesman said the party was aware that the governor had become paranoid and jittery since the newspaper reported about the amount traced to the former minister, stressing that the development had confirmed the party’s earlier alarm that Fayose was a major beneficiary of the arms cash diversion scam.
He added that all those who shared the arms money, which resulted in the deaths of soldiers over dearth of arms, should be investigated and prosecuted.