Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose was on Monday said to be connected to the alleged N1.2bn received from the National Security office a month to his second term election. This was confirmed by the Zonal Head of Zenith Bank Plc, Mr Lawrence Akande.
The revealing of this fact has now led to the trial of Mr Abiodun Agbele who has been arraigned in court before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The case began in 2016 when the EFCC arraigned Agbele and three companies for an 11 count charge all revolving around the money laundering of N4.68 trillion claimed to have been taken by Col Sambo Dasuki (retd) from ONSA’s account managed by CBN.
According to EFCC, Agbele, Obanikoro and other suspects had on June 17, 2014, taken about N1.21 billion of the N4.68 trillion which according to EFCC were proceeds of Dasuki’s unlawful activities.
Akande, one of the prosecution’s witness said he had received a call from Fayose on June 17, 2014, regarding a deposit to be made into his bank. Akande said Abiodun Osode had approached him to help approach Mr Peter Ayodele Fayose to patronize their bank in preparation for the 2016 state election.
Following his contact with Fayose for the first time, he received a call from Mr Ayodele Fayose who said a deposit would be coming to Akure.
After Fayose won the election, Akande said he had approached the governor for the sole purpose of patronizing their bank.
The visit was unfruitful as Akande’s team could not reach an agreement with Fayose based on the governor’s request for the bank’s financial support in exchange for the patronage.
Hence, he never went back to meet Fayose with the patronage request.
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