It was like a movie series as the accusations
and counter accusation games of who sponsored Fayose’s Governorship election in
2014 grows thicker. The management of zenith bank categorically denied
sponsoring Gov. Ayo Fayose election and even made damning allegations against Fayose
that he was running helter-skelter to persuade the bank to perfect and hide all
his shady monies transferred to his accounts in the build up to the elections
and that the bank did not oblige which got him angry.
It was revealed and made public that
the same management team of Zenith bank sent
a team of “Executive beggers” to the embattled governor who is being
investigated by the Economic and finanacial crimes commission EFCC led by the Executive
Director of the bank south west Mr. Olusola Oladipo, Zonal Manager Akure zone Mr Abiodun Oshode and branch head of the bank’s
branch in Ado Ekiti Mr. Bunmi a.k.a Bumshaka. The Branch manager was seen knelling down like a
guilty child begging Fayose while the ED sits. This was supported by a video
posted on facebook and twitter by the Special Assistant to governor Fayose on
Media and Publicity Mr Olayinka Lere on his page. With this latest development
in the Fayose versus EFCC saga on one hand and Fayose versus Buhari and Aisha
on the other hand one can only wonder if there is imminent end to the story in
sight.
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has earlier in the week made a statement as regards the investigation
on Ayo Fayose in relation to freezing of his personal account with zenith bank
in which the anti graft agency said it has all it needed from zenith bank on
activities on the account. EFCC spokesman specifically said huge sums of money
were allegedly deposited into the accounts about 2 weeks to the Governorship
election of Ekiti State in 2014 by an individual who is the correspondence
between Fayose and Zenith Bank on running of the account. According to EFCC
huge sums of cash up to 100m were deposited in the bank’s branches in Lagos and
Ibadan which the agency claims are funds from the Office of the National Security
Adviser (ONSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki.
It was however reported on Wednesday
that the management of Zenith bank denied ever funding or bank rolling governor
Fayose’s election noting that all monies deposited into the governor’s personal
account were documented and cases of suspicious transactions on the account
were reported to the appropriate authority in charge of anti money laundry unit
of the Central bank of Nigeria. The bank also maintained that governor Fayose
wanted the bank to cover all loop holes in the account documentation of man who
was the middle man who runs the account and subsequently deposit monies into
the governor’s account which the bank claimed it turned down as all documents
relating to the account has already been submitted to the EFCC. On Fayose part,
the governor said it was about two weeks ago that the bank came to him to ask
for basic customer information details and passport photograph of the said man
to perfect the account which was hastily done as at the time of opening the
account.
Nigerians awaits the outcome of
the investigation by the EFCC and position of the EFCC on Zenith bank on this
new development. The fact that the bank could send its staff on “Go and manage
the aggrieved Customer” syndrome took this dimension is pathetic and uncalled
for. That fellow popularly displayed knelling down all in the name to keep his
job is a reflection of what the economy and society has turned an average
reputable man who wants to do all it takes to keep his job. It is unprofessional
and demeaning to a father and head of a house. The bank needs to be told the
truth even though they might deny ever sending them such an errand we all know
what it means to a bank when a relationship of such magnitude is lost to a
competitor as might have been the case in this Fayose case, because he would
eventually pulled out the state and his
personal funds away from the bank in a matter of days of the bank denial of his
funding.
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