Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of single-handedly identifying and prosecuting leading figures of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) without the required evidence.
According to the governor, Buhari has been operating as the accuser, prosecutor and judge, at the same time, “carrying on as if those he accused of corruption have already been convicted”.
In a release issued on Friday by Lere Olayinka, his special assistant on public communications and new media, Fayose challenged the president to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to charge Olisa Metuh, national publicity secretary of PDP, to court if the commission was sure of evidence of fraud against him.
“The EFCC appears to be operating a system in which an accused person is first arrested, detained endlessly while the anti-corruption agency goes about looking for evidence,” he said.