Gov. Fayose, Ekiti State Governor Lands In Trouble As His Account Is Seized .

The out spoken Governor and President Buhari's core opposition, the Governor of Ekiti state lands in fresh trouble as the government sizes his bank account.

The seizege of the account was done by the court of appeal in Ekiti state as a implementation of the appeal filled by the EFCC against the judgment of Taiwo of the federal high court.
A court of appeal sitting in Ado Ekiti has directed the freezing of the account of Ayo Fayose, governor of Ekiti state. The court allowed the appeal filed by EFCC against the judgment of Taiwo Taiwo of federal high court, Ado Ekiti division.

In 2016, a federal high court sitting in Ado Ekiti set aside an earlier order of a federal high court in Lagos empowering the EFCC to freeze two Zenith Bank accounts of Fayose. The court had ordered the EFCC to immediately lift the freeze order on the two accounts belonging to the governor, saying the anti-graft agency did not follow due process.

Taiwo had given the order while delivering his judgment, which lasted more than two hours, in a suit filed by the governor through Mike Ozekhome, his counsel. The judge said the rights of the governor had been infringed upon, considering the circumstance of his office.

He declared that apart from the immunity which Fayose currently enjoys as a sitting governor under section 308 of the constitution, it was wrong for EFCC to freeze his two accounts in apparent perpetuity without first investigating him or making him a party.

He described Fayose as “a genuinely deprived person who rushed to the court to seek constitutional protection”. The judge said it was also the duty of any presiding judge to protect the said constitution and its interpretations whenever the need arose.

“The plaintiff is entitled to be heard before his property or money can be seized; doing otherwise will amount to denying him fair hearing and constitutional rights,” he said.

Speculations had it the the Governor is deeply in trouble because of this recent development. Because it all happens when the Governor's demonstrated interest in the Governorship race of the state.
According to source , the government of the day is doing all this to frustrate the good intention of the people's Governor, but he will not relent effort because the people of Ekiti state is solidly behind him says PDP chieftain in Ekiti state.