Embattled Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, on Thursday shared pictures and videos showing how Zenith bank management allegedly visited him to beg him over reports that the bank denied funding his election campaign in 2014.
Gidibase recalls that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) closed in on the governor after two personal accounts of Governor Fayose and one belonging to his company, Spotless Investments were frozen on Monday in the course of its investigations into N4.7billion Fayose allegedly received from the Office of the National Security Adviser during his election campaign in 2014.
Fayose has since denied receiving any money, claiming it was Zenith Bank that majorly funded his campaign.
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According to Special Adviser to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications & New Media, Lere Olayinka.
Read the statement below..
‘A management team from Zenith Bank Plc visited Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, over the involvement of the bank in the funding of the June 21, 2014 governorship election of the governor.
Their visit to the governor followed a reported denial by the bank that it was not part of the funding of the election.
The team was led by an Executive Director, Sola Oladipo. It also had two zonal directors of the bank and the Ado-Ekiti branch manager. When accosted by newsmen, the ED said they only came to see the governor. Asked whether the bank really dissociated itself from the claim by the governor that it was part of the funding of the election, Shola could only mutter some inaudible words. He eventually said the spokesman for the bank was not on the team and could not say anything.
While commenting on the development, Governor Fayose said the bank officials came to beg him over the issue. “They were begging me and that the matter should not go beyond this level. I asked them why did they go to the EFCC to tell lies. Why did they have to lie that money came from the Office of the National Security Adviser? If the money is for me why did they have to link with me what is not.”