Both officials were arrested on September 28, 2017
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The NLC boss in the state, Ade Adesanimi, said the anti-graft’s continued detention of the commissioner and AG is delaying the payment of salaries to the hungry workers in the state.
The Ekiti State Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo, and the Accountant General of the State, Yemisi Owolabi, were on Thursday arrested by the operatives of the EFCC over alleged misapplication of resources that accrued to the state government.
The party admonished Adeyeye to purge himself of anger over his failure to secure Governor Ayodele Fayose’s support for his governorship ambition and do his job.
The Labour leaders described the allegation that the Bailout Fund given to the state last year was misappropriated as frivolous and unfounded.
In a statement on Thursday evening, the spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, identified the officials as the Commissioner for Finance, Chief Doyin Ojo, and the Accountant General of the state, Yemisi Owolabi
The arrest was carried out in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, as Fayose declared his presidential ambition in Abuja, the nation’s seat of power