I Drove Election Cash To Fayose's Spotless Hotel – Driver

Gov. Ayodele Fayose

A bullion van driver has admitted to passing on the N1.219bn, which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission claimed was conveyed to the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, in the development to the June 2014 governorship race in the state, which Fayose won.


Fayose is being researched by the EFCC for professedly getting the N1.219bn through the Office of the National Security Adviser for his crusade in 2014, a sum said to be a piece of the N4.7bn purportedly occupied from the ONSA under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).

EFCC examinations had uncovered that the N4.7bn was paid into a ledger of Sylvan McNamara, an organization in which the children of a previous Minister of State for Defense, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, are said to be chiefs.

About N1.219bn was purportedly traveled to Akure on a private plane amid the development to the Ekiti State governorship race.

Fayose was charged to have gotten the N1.219bn through his chest companion, Abiodun Agbele.

The bullion van driver, Mr. Olaoluwa Omotoso, purportedly drove the bullion van to the Akure airplane terminal landing area on June 17, 2014, to transport the N1.219bn professedly flown from Lagos by Obanikoro.

Omotoso told EFCC criminologists that he made two separate outings to the air terminal as a result of the expansive volume of money.

The driver told the counter join office that part of the cash was taken to a bank in Alagbaka, Akure, on the direction of Fayose's companion, Agbele, while the remaining cash was taken to Spotless Hotel, Ado Ekiti, which is possessed by Fayose and his better half, Feyisetan.

A criminologist in the commission, who addressed our journalist on Thursday, said, "Omotoso clarified that on June 17, 2014, he was given an order to go to the Akure airplane terminal to pass on a few assets. He said he went to the air terminal twice to move the cash. He said a portion of the cash was taken to a bank while he, alongside Agbele, moved the remaining money to Spotless Hotel, Ado Ekiti.

"He said the cash was moved in three vehicles, including one bullion van and two Toyota Hilux vans. The two Toyota Hilux vans had a few officers inside for security while Agbele was with him in the Hilux van.

"He said he didn't know precisely what amount was passed on. He clarified that Agbele held the keys to the vault in the bullion van. On getting to Spotless Hotel around evening time, they offloaded the money and Agbele entered the vehicle to look and guarantee that no cash was abandoned. Agbele then gave back the keys and Omotoso drove off."

Then, the Managing Director of Zenith Bank, Mr. Subside Amangbo, has denied that the bank supported the governorship crusade of Fayose in 2014, in spite of the senator's case.

Amangbo told the EFCC that the bank had one and only branch in Ekiti State, asking why the bank would put resources into Fayose when the state government had no record with the bank.

Fayose had guaranteed that his crusade was supported by the bank and a couple of private people.

The bank MD said at no time did he hold a meeting with Fayose and his companion, Agbele.

A source at the EFCC expressed that Amangbo said at no time did he meet with Abiodun Agbele or any illustrative of Fayose. He said the assertion that the bank subsidized the Ekiti State governorship decision was false.

"He facilitate expressed that at no time did Fayose and the director of the bank, Mr. Jim Ovia, and himself hold a meeting.

"He said the bank, as an issue of strategy, did not support political gatherings or decisions."