Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has said former minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro has been compromised, after his alleged confession to the Economic and Fianacial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

There had been reports that Obanikoro told the anti-graft agency that he gave Fayose N2.23bn cash to campaign for the Ekiti governorship election.

In a statement by Fayose’s Special Adviser on Public Communication and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said the Federal Government was finding every means possible to implicate him.

“This project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ will definitely not put food on the tables of Nigerians and for all I care, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and its collaborators can keep running from pillar to post while I keep delivering good governance to Ekiti and its people,” he said.

“We have gone past this stage of media trial, EFCC should rather keep its gun powder dry, when we get to the bridge, we will cross it. They said more than this in the 2006 poultry scam blackmail, despite that, I am the governor today.”

He also said “those who arranged the dramatic and compromised return of Senator Obanikoro to Nigeria obviously did so in continuation of their project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost.”

“As far as I am concerned, I am busy here in Ekiti attending to the welfare and well-being of my people. I won’t be distracted,” the governor said.

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