EFCC Reacts To Accusation That Magu Said Nothing Will Happen If Fayose Dies In Custody

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has denied a leaked audio recording alleging the commission’s acting Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu, said nothing will happen if former Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State dies in the agency’s custody.

The denial is contained in a statement by the EFCC’s spokesperson, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, on Thursday.

The anti-graft agency cautioned Nigerians and the general public to disregard the fake audio file being circulated on the social media in which Magu was purportedly heard saying nothing would happen if Fayose died in custody.

The statement read in part, “The EFCC wishes to alert the general public to an audio recording of a conversation currently circulating in the social media in which the acting Chairman of the Commission, Ibrahim Magu, purportedly made comments to the effect that nothing will happen peradventure Ayo Fayose, former governor of Ekiti State, dies in custody.

“Interestingly, the audio tape did not disclose the place where the conversation occurred and the person that Magu was supposedly talking to.

“Members of the public are advised to disregard this disingenuous creation as it is the handiwork of mischievous persons intent on distracting the commission from the serious work of wrapping up the investigation into the corruption allegations against the former governor of Ekiti State.”

Fayose’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, in his reaction, questioned why the EFCC has refused to charge his principal to court.

“With the deafening noise that they made about the evidence of corruption in their possession and even going by the EFCC ignoble tweet of July 15, 2018, in which the commission expressed its
readiness to prosecute the former governor immediately he no longer enjoyed immunity, Nigerians had expected that by now, he will be facing trial in court.

“However, because the EFCC does not have any evidence against Fayose, the commission has opted to keep him in detention so as to satisfy its paymasters whose major agenda is ‘Fayose must be kept out of circulation by whatever means.’

“If not that they are just interested in keeping him out of circulation, why is the anti-graft commission not in court to prosecute him with the ‘overwhelming evidence’ it claimed to have?” Olayinka said.