EFCC Should Have Delayed Arrest Of Fayose’s Finance Team – Omokri

Former New Media Aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) should have waited a couple of days before arresting Governor Ayodele Fayose’s Finance team.

The EFCC on Thursday arrested the Ekiti state Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo, and the Accountant-General, Yemisi Owolabi over allegations of the mismanagement of bailout funds.

Reacting to the arrest on his Facebook page, Omokri alleged that the anti-graft agency is trying to cripple Fayose because he declared his ambition to run for presidency.

He wrote: “So Governor Ayo Fayose declares for the 2019 Presidential election today and within hours his finance commissioner and Accountant General are arrested.

”The EFCC could not even pretend and wait a couple of days after Fayose declared before arresting his finance team to cripple him.

”Is this what we should expect as 2019 approaches? Is there still democracy in Nigeria? What type of administration is this?

”If Goodluck Jonathan had done this to Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, would they have been where they are today?

”The APC got to where it is by free and fair elections and they must not remove the ladder that others left intact for them.”