Just hours
after Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state declared his intention to run for
president come 2019, EFCC operatives stormed the state to arrest the duo
of the Accountant-General of Ekiti State and Ekiti State Commissioner of
Finance.
The
anti-graft agency, EFCC, has arrested two top officials of Ekiti State.
The Ekiti State Commissioner for Finance and
the Accountant General were arrested on Thursday and are currently in the
custody of the EFCC, a top official confirmed.
“They were picked up today following their
refusal to honour previous invitations for interrogation in relation to pending
investigation on the misuse of bail out funds by the Ayodele Fayose
administration,” an EFCC spokesperson said in an email to Premium Times.
The officials were arrested on the same day the
state governor, Ayodele Fayose, formally declared his intention to run for the
2019 presidential election on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP.
Mr. Fayose has also been investigated for
alleged corrupt practices but cannot be arrested or prosecuted while in office
as governor based on the constitutional immunity he enjoys.
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