Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has revealed that top management team of Zenith Bank Plcon the evening of Thursday, June 23, came to beg him over the involvement of the bank in the funding of the June 21, 2014, governorship election in the state.Their visit to Fayose followeda reported denial by the bank that it was not part of the funding of the election.The Zenith Bank team was reportedlyled by an executive director (ED), SolaOladipo. It also had two zonal directors of the bank and the Ado-Ekiti branch manager.Commenting on the development, Governor Fayose said the bank officials came to beg him over the issue.
“They were begging me and that the matter should not go beyond this level. I asked them why did they go tothe EFCC to tell lies. Why did they have to lie that money came from theOffice of the National Security Adviser? If the money is for me why did they have to link with me what is not,”he said in a news release circulated by his media aide.But the ED said they only came to seethe governor.Asked whether the bank really dissociated itself from the claim by the governor that it was part of the funding of the election, Shola said thespokesman for the bank was not on the team and could not say anything.The EFCC, on Monday, June 20, froze two personal accounts of the governor and one belonging to his company, Spotless Investments, in the course of its investigations into N4.7 billion Fayose allegedly receivedfrom the Office of the National Security Adviser during his election campaign in 2014.Fayose has since denied receiving any money, claiming it was Zenith Bank that majorly funded his campaign.
“They were begging me and that the matter should not go beyond this level. I asked them why did they go tothe EFCC to tell lies. Why did they have to lie that money came from theOffice of the National Security Adviser? If the money is for me why did they have to link with me what is not,”he said in a news release circulated by his media aide.But the ED said they only came to seethe governor.Asked whether the bank really dissociated itself from the claim by the governor that it was part of the funding of the election, Shola said thespokesman for the bank was not on the team and could not say anything.The EFCC, on Monday, June 20, froze two personal accounts of the governor and one belonging to his company, Spotless Investments, in the course of its investigations into N4.7 billion Fayose allegedly receivedfrom the Office of the National Security Adviser during his election campaign in 2014.Fayose has since denied receiving any money, claiming it was Zenith Bank that majorly funded his campaign.
