Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose , has been implicated in a major fraud case.
Musiliu Obanikoro, the former minister of state for defence, revealed on Wednesday that N1.219 billion in cash was airlifted to Fayose, during the 2014 election.
“I was a minister under Jonathan’s administration. Sometime in 2014, we were going to have an election in Ekiti State. Some days before the election, I got a call from governor Fayose asking me if I received any message for him from ONSA, I told him I would call him later,” said Obanikoro.
“Then I had a phone conversation with the NSA and he told me that N2.2 billion was paid into the Sylvan Mcnamara Ltd account. And I handed over the N1.219 billion cash to Mr Agbele, the bank manager for onward delivery to Fayose. I didn’t take N19 million, contrary to a publication by a Lagos based online platform.”
When asked about his relationship with Sylvan Mcnamara Ltd, Obanikoro stated that “the account was created to deal with the issue of Boko Haram in Lagos.
