I Drove Election Cash To Fayose's Spotless Hotel – Driver
A bullion van driver has admitted to passing on the N1.219bn, which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission asserted was conveyed to the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, in the development to the June 2014 governorship race in the state, which Fayose won. Fayose is being researched by the EFCC for professedly accepting the N1.219bn through the Office of the National Security Adviser for his battle in 2014, a sum said to be a piece of the N4.7bn purportedly occupied from the ONSA under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).
A bullion van driver has admitted to passing on the N1.219bn, which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission charged was conveyed to the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, in the development to the June 2014 governorship decision in the state, which Fayose won.
Fayose is being researched by the EFCC for purportedly accepting the N1.219bn through the Office of the National Security Adviser for his battle in 2014, a sum said to be a piece of the N4.7bn professedly occupied from the ONSA under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).
EFCC examinations had uncovered that the N4.7bn was paid into a ledger of Sylvan McNamara, an organization in which the children of a previous Minister of State for Defense, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, are said to be executives.
About N1.219bn was supposedly traveled to Akure on a private plane amid the development of the Ekiti State governorship race.
Fayose was affirmed to have gotten the N1.219bn through his chest companion, Abiodun Agbele.
The bullion van driver, Mr. Olaoluwa Omotoso, apparently drove the bullion van to the Akure air terminal landing area on June 17, 2014, to transport the N1.219bn supposedly flown from Lagos by Obanikoro.
Omotoso told EFCC analysts that he made two separate outings to the air terminal due to the substantial volume of money.
The driver told the counter join organization that part of the cash was taken to a bank in Alagbaka, Akure, in the direction of Fayose's companion, Agbele, while the remaining cash was taken to Spotless Hotel, Ado Ekiti, which is claimed by Fayose and his better half, Feyisetan.
An investigator in the commission, who addressed our reporter on Thursday, said, "Omotoso clarified that on June 17, 2014, he was given the mandate to go to the Akure airplane terminal to pass on a few assets. He said he went to the air terminal twice to move the cash. He said a portion of the cash was taken to a bank while he, alongside Agbele, moved the remaining money to Spotless Hotel, Ado Ekiti.
"He said the cash was moved in three vehicles, including one bullion van and two Toyota Hilux vans. The two Toyota Hilux vans had a few troopers inside for security while Agbele was with him in the Hilux van.
"He said he didn't know precisely what amount was passed on. He clarified that Agbele held the keys to the vault in the bullion van. On getting to Spotless Hotel around evening time, they offloaded the money and Agbele entered the vehicle to seek and guarantee that no cash was deserted. Agbele then gave back the keys and Omotoso drove off."
In the mean time, the Managing Director of Zenith Bank, Mr. Diminish Amangbo, has denied that the bank supported the governorship crusade of Fayose in 2014, as opposed to the representative's case.
Amangbo told the EFCC that the bank had to stand out the branch in Ekiti State, asking why the bank would put resources into Fayose when the state government had no record with the bank.
Fayose had guaranteed that his battle was financed by the bank and a couple of private people.
The bank MD said at no time did he hold a meeting with Fayose and his companion, Agbele.
A source at the EFCC expressed that Amangbo said at no time did he meet with Abiodun Agbele or any illustrative of Fayose. He said the claim that the bank subsidized the Ekiti State governorship decision was false.
"He assists expressed that at no time did Fayose and the executive of the bank, Mr. Jim Ovia, and himself hold a meeting.
"He said the bank, as an issue of approach, did not support political gatherings or races."
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