Embattled Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has told the Federal Government to leave him alone and face the business of governance by assuaging the hunger ravaging Nigerians. The governor was reacting to the allegation that former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, admitted that he gave Fayose the sum of N2.3bn in the build up to the 2104 Ekiti State governorship election which produced him as governor.

Fayose, in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, advised Buhari to concentrate on solving the myriad problems confronting the nation rather than the arm-twisting to implicate him at all cost. The plot will fail, he said.

The statement read inter alia: “This project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ will definitely not put food on the tables of Nigerians and for all I care, the EFCC and its collaborators can keep running from pillar to post while I keep delivering good governance to Ekiti and its people.

“We have gone past this stage of media trial, EFCC should rather keep its gun powder dry, when we get to the bridge, we will cross it. They said more than this in the 2006 poultry scam blackmail, despite that, I am the governor today.

“Those who arranged the dramatic and compromised return of Senator Obanikoro to Nigeria obviously did so in continuation of their project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ but I am not bothered because my election was legitimately funded.

“However, if this is why they are intimidating judges and the judiciary, it won’t work as far as my own matter is concerned as no one can play God.

“As far as I am concerned, I am busy here in Ekiti attending to the welfare and well-being of my people. I won’t be distracted.

“The international community, especially those funding EFCC must insist that the commission probes the funding of APC elections before further funds are released to the commission,” he added.