Governor Ayodele Fayose has gotten a response from the presidency over his corruption allegations against Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari.
The Ekiti state governor had on Monday, June 20, mentioned Mrs Buhari’s name in the bribery scandal of US Congessman, William Jefferson, for which he (Jefferson) was convicted in 2009.
In a press statement on Tuesday, Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to President Buhari on media and publicity, stated that the presidency would have ignored Fayose because “he is a man childishly obsessed with the desire to grab the headlines and insulting people at will because of his incurably boorish instincts.”
According to him, the presidency however,“chose to respond on this occasion for the sake of innocent Nigerians who might be misled by Fayose’s shameless and blatant distortion of facts.”
Speaking further, he said ignoring Fayose carries the risk of giving credibility to the outright falsehoods inconsistent with the status of anybody that calls himself a governor or leader, adding that the president’s wife had no direct, indirect or the remotest connection with William Jefferson’s corruption scandal in the United States.
The presidency therefore challenged the governor to inform Nigerians if the so-called Aisha whose pictures he proudly, but ignorantly shared, was the same as the one married to the Nigerian president.
Meanwhile, prominent Nigerian lawyers and rights activists are expressing divergent views over the freezing of an account belonging Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Fayose has alleged that his rights have been trampled on by the anti-graft agency, but the EFCC says it has the power to investigate and carry out such actions in the course of its duties.
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