Barely hours after the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), winner of the Ekiti State gubernatorial elections, the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared its intention to prosecute
the incumbent Governor Ayodele Fayose of the state.
According to a tweet from the twitter handle of the
EFCC, the agency will prosecute Fayose over an alleged fraud at the Integrated
Poultry Project/Biological Concepts Limited to the tune of N1.3billion.
While the agency is raring to prosecute Fayose,
they will however have to wait for his immunity as governor to elapse in 60
days when he will hand over to Fayemi.
The EFCC handle fondly referred to as 'The Eagle'
on social media set twitter ablaze with this tweet accompanied with a purported
picture of the poultry farm; "The parri (party) is over; the cloak of
immunity torn apart, and the staff broken.
"#Ekiti Integrated Poultry Project/Biological
Concepts Limited N1.3billion fraud case file dusted off the shelves. See you
soon."
But some twitter followers did not particularly
find that tweet amusing, as they labelled it a witch hunt from an
unprofessional agency.
Tweeting from @YoungProf_MUFC, one of the
antagonists, said: "Rubbish. Why couldn't you start this investigation,
when he was the governor?
"You are just letting the world know that you
witch hunt the sitting president's political opponents."
To this allegation, the EFCC clarified: "This
case has been on since 2005, but became a pending case due to the immunity.
There's nothing new here. #NoWitchHunt."
Even with the explanation, many still did not buy
it as they maintained that it was nothing short of a witch hunt.
This is because going by EFCC logic, the case was
opened in 2005 and the file stayed dormant, meanwhile, Fayose was impeached in
2006 and re-elected in 2014, thus begging the question why nine years without
immunity and without being prosecuted.
@Jngwobia1 said: "Babachir David Lawal the
grasscutter...(sic) is walking free. This is Nigeria where anybody who doesn't
support the president is seen as a criminal.
Power always shifts. It has shifted against Fayose, one day it will
shift against Magu."
Victor Osolake asked: "But then what was the
@officialEFCC doing between 2006 when @GovAyoFayose was impeached and 2014 when
he was re-elected?
"Obviously, he didn’t have immunity for a
period of eight years and he was never charged to court. This is the kind of
sensationalism that many Nigerians detest."
While some were flaying the EFCC, there were yet
others who deemed their potential action as a welcome development for
democracy.
Sapere Audu who was apparently on the side of EFCC
said: "@YoungProf_MUFC You fell for scam. The case isn't new and it's not
the only one he has.
"Should they not continue their investigation
because he's the voice of the opposition as he made you believe? Lol."
However, going by the flak the agency received,
they were forced to delete the tweet, but not before several other
social media users screen-munched it.
Ogo Noroh
said: "It's unfortunate that @officialEFCC is acting in a shameless and
pre-judicial manner. Why delete this tweet if there is no witch hunt?
"The whole fight against corruption is politically
motivated and there is no real fight against corruption whatsoever in
Nigeria."
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