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| Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State |
Appeal Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has dismissed the
application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for
injunction restraining the Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose from operating
his accounts in Zenith Bank Plc.
The Appeal Court described the application as
lacking in merit, adding that EFCC did not come with clean hands on the
application for injunction it filed because it suppressed material facts.
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Ado
Ekiti On December 13, 2016 ordered the EFCC to immediately unfreeze the
accounts of Governor Fayose, saying the action of the EFCC was against due
process.
Dismissing the appeal, the Appeal Court in a
unanimous ruling delivered by Justice Fatima Akinbami said that the EFCC did
not attach notice of appeal and the Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti judgment of
December 13, 2016, which ordered the anti-graft agency to unfreeze the
governor’s account that the EFCC appealed against.
The court said the alleged intelligent report, which
the EFCC claimed to have received concerning money purportedly paid into
Governor Fayose’s account by Senator Musiliu Obanikoro was not provided nor
attached for the court to see.
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