On Tuesday, the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, made an unexpected appearance at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) office in Abuja to visit the detained former Minister of Aviation and Director of the now-defunct Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode.
Fayose, who spoke with journalists after the visit, condemned the continued detention of Fani-Kayode despite the fact that he had earlier been granted bail by the court, saying that the action of the EFCC was a vendetta.
Governor Fayose, however, disclosed that Fani-Kayode was in good spirits when he met him but declared that he could not attest to “how the state of his accommodation is” as they only met inside an office within the EFCC.
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He called on the Federal Government and the EFCC to stop playing god and allow the former minister to enjoy the bail earlier granted to him by the court.
According to Fayose, “The continued detention of the former minister was to demoralize him, but unfortunately, the man was in high spirits when I met him.
“He is not worried, after all, a man must be brave. We shared prayers together that this persecution will come to pass and it will surely come to pass”.
Speaking On his mission to the Commission, said, “I am here to visit and identify my friend, Chief Fani-kayode. I came into Abuja yesterday, and I am being my brother’s keeper, and I felt that within the 24 hours that I will spend in Abuja I have to visit him.
“I met him in an office. They brought him into an office to see me. He is in good spirits. But when you said the state he was in when I met him, there are two different issues. If you say state of mind, he is in good spirits. But I don’t have access to where he sleeps and the condition in which he is kept but speaking with him, he is in good spirits.
The governor hinted that the former Minister would be charged to court on November 10.
He said, “It is obvious that the commission has made up their mind on charge him on the November 10. And it shows that they have made up their mind even before I visited him. He has been granted bail before, and I would have expected them to allow him to go and come back since he didn’t run away. So I just believe that this over zealousness will cease and get better.”
Speaking on his concerns over recent spates of high-profile visits to the anti-graft facility, he said, “These people are only accused. An accused person is at liberty to be visited; even people convicted are to be visited. They are human beings. It is their right to be visited.
“Are you saying that people should be locked away without access to family and friends? That would be abuse to human rights. There is a difference between being accused and found guilty. After from that, even if you are found guilty, people still have a right to visit you”, he stated
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