No Shaking...I Remain Unintimidated – Governor Fayose

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state has insisted that he "remain resolute in making his opinions known on national issues and will not be intimidated,” despite the cases against him.

He made this known in an angry reaction to the arrest of some men, who allegedly aided and abetted him in laundering part of the cash taken from the office of the former National Security Officer.

The men were said to have been arrested and detained by the EFCC on Monday in Lagos. One of them, whose name was given as Abiodun Agbele, was picked up at a location in Lagos while trying to doctor vital documents relating to property he had bought for Fayose.

Sources disclosed that some officials of a bank, which the governor said had helped him with funds to run his election, were also picked up and moved to Abuja by the operatives of the commission.

Mr Agbele, EFCC sources said, had been on the watch list of the EFCC in the past week following discovery he was the arrowhead in the receipt and laundering of huge sums of money from a former Defence Minister, Musiliu Obanikor.

But the arrest of Agbele and others has not gone down well with Governor Fayose.