EFCC Under Instruction to Carry out Sting Operation against Fayose, PDP Alleges

Daura lobbied me twice to support Buhari, says former gov

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the Presidency had directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to carry out a sting operation to arrest and incarcerate indefinitely the former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose.

This is coming as Fayose has alleged that the former Director General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura, asked him on two occasions to support President Muhammadu Buhari-led government in order for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to retain the control of the state, saying that he turned down the request on both occasions.

The National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement yesterday said that the information at the party’s disposal and all over the social media indicated that the presidency had put the commission on alert to arrest the governor and detain him indefinitely.

He stated: “By 12 midnight, the governor’s residence is expected to be surrounded by armed men of the EFCC under the pretence that they had information of his plot to escape. This is to achieve their plan to humiliate the governor and portray him in bad light to the public by dramatising his arrest.

“The EFCC even unprofessionally showed their bias in deriding the governor and making light of a very serious matter by mocking him and asking him to come before his tenure elapsed, which the governor declined in line with the constitutional immunity.

“The alleged directive by the presidency is not unconnected with the plot to use the EFCC and other security agencies to incarcerate the governor owing to his persistent criticism of the President Buhari-led APC government.”

Meanwhile, Fayose has said that the former Director General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura, asked him on two occasions to support President Muhammadu Buhari-led government in order for PDP, to retain the control of the state, saying that he turned down the request on both occasions.