Breaking: EFCC declares this ex-deputy governor wanted, find out why

– Ex-deputy governor of Osun fingered in multi-million Ekitigate election scandal

– Reports say he received and misappropriated N700 million

– It was also gathered that Fayose and Obanikoro were at the meeting with security agents

Senator Iyiola Omisore has been reportedly declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over his role in the infamous Ekitigate election scandal.

Omisore, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the 2015 election in Osun state was said to have received and misappropriated over N700 million from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) in 2014, as part of the election scandal in Ekiti state.

The former deputy governor of Osun, alongside then minister of state for Defense, Musiliu Obanikoro and Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh were reportedly involved in the election rigging scandal which Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state also allegedly participated in.

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Reports say Omisore was at the meeting and was in a haste to test these methods on the gubernatorial election in Osun state, but the bubble burst when Captain Sagir Koli, regarded as a whistleblower, leaked the audio which ruined the group’s plans.

Accordingly, it was stated that ex-NSA, Sambo Dasuki stole the money with the excuse that it was national security funds, after which he gave out the money to Omisore, Obanikoro, Jelili Adesiyan  a former minister of police affairs and Governor Fayose.

The statement by the EFCC reads further that “instead of responding to the EFCC’s investigation Omisore had approached the Federal Capital Territory High Court for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights.”

Daily Trust gathered however, that Justice Husseini Baba Yusuf ordered that Omisore should only be arrested through a due and legal process.

Meanwhile, there are also rumours that EFCC is on the trail of Obanikoro (a major actor in the Ekitigate scandal), who has reportedly been hiding in the United States since 2015.

Early this year, Dr Tope Aluko, a former secretary of the PDP in Ekiti state, gave a breakdown of how the Ekiti governorship election was rigged in favour of the PDP governorship candidate, Fayose in an interview on Channels Television.

Explaining a process he alleged was used in rigging the election, Aluko said: “Before the primaries, we had this believe that because Jonathan was coming out for second term and because we are going to be the first election in the southwest, at a meeting, we told him (former President Goodluck Jonathan) that north-east, north-west and north-central may not be too sure for him because the Hausas are clamouring for presidency and that you now have south-east and south-south, you must manage the south-west.

“It was on the basis of that that we told him that he must manage south-west. Because of his interest, even before winning the primaries, we did so many security reports to tell Mr President then that he must make sure that we manage south-west zone and it was because of that that he gave us the head of security agencies.”

He further told Channels Television that the Minister for State for Defence and Minister of Police Affairs were made to give attention to the election because “we know that APC was everywhere in the southwest and we must naturally capture part of southwest if we want to balance what our brothers in the north were likely to bring on.”

Aluko had testified at the lower tribunal held to look into the election held last year, but he denied saying at the lower Tribunal that the election was not rigged.

He said that there was an agreement to take out some members of the All Progressive Congress to ensure that they do not give adequate support to their members.

His words: “There was a strike team, a mixture of the DSS, military, the mobile police… that is about all. We had a meeting at Aso Rock on security and funds. We were given security and funds. Those in the meeting include the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces the former PDP chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, Governor Fayose and himself (Aluko).

“At the meeting President Jonathan agreed that if he needed Ekiti, he would support us to ensure that we delivered. At the second meeting we had Obanikoro, Jelili, Omisore… It was a combination of Osun and Ekiti people and they were discussing how we were going to move to take the south-west.

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“Before the primaries, His Excellency, Ayodele Fayose, said that we can only win using the military. Then we came up with a plan about May.

“We swore on the arrangement that we had before we embarked on the political venture.

“Him (Fayose) becoming the Governor, myself becoming Chief of Staff and Honourable Femi Bamisile becoming the Deputy Governor,” he explained, dismissing claims that he was coming out with the truth because he could not get what was agreed.

“For the military to indict its members because of the election of a state you will know that what I am saying is not a lie,” he added.

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