President Muhammadu
Buhari’s wife, Aisha, has stated that the Governor of the Ekiti state Ayodele
Fayose cannot hide from prosecution from several alleged criminal crimes. First
Lady in her statement of claims filed before an FCT High Court said that
immunity won’t help Fayose.
The defamation suit
challenging the governor’s accusation linking her with the Harliburton bribery
scandal in the United States.
Buhari’s wife quoted
criminal charges on the murder of one Tunde Omojola, diversion of N1.2bn state
funds in 2004 and the invasion of the Ekiti High Court with hoodlums who
reportedly beat up a judge in 2014 as some of the governor’s ‘indiscretions’.
“The
first defendant (Fayose) is a well-known coward who is scared of facing the
consequences of his numerous indiscretions and sheer acts of criminality by
timidly hiding under the cloak of immunity to want to evade prosecution,” she claimed.
However, Justice
Olukayode Adeniyi has accepted the service of the court papers to Ekiti
governor and his two assistants- his chief press secretary, Idowu Adelusi and
his spokesman, Lere Olayinka at the Government House, Ado Ekiti as the legal
dispute proceeded in the week.
The judge ordered
service of the processes on the perpetrators by DHL courier service and
publication in an online media platform. Aisha Buhari, who has invited up 205
witnesses against Fayose, is looking for N5bn as damages over his comments.
Ekiti governor had on
June 20, supposed that Aisha Buhari, who allegedly transferred $170, 000 to USA
congressman, William Jefferson, who was convicted in November 2009 over the
bribery scandal, was Buhari’s wife. Fayose’s lawyer, Mike Ozekhome had in a
reply to Mrs Buhari’s pre-action notice on July 8, noted that under Section 308
of the 1999 Constitution, no civil or criminal action may be brought against
the governor while in office, urging her to wait till 2018.
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