A fact check by ALEDEH, has revealed that the governor of Ekiti state and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors’ forum, Ayodele Fayose reportedly predicted the victory of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
Recall that the Code of Conduct Tribunal sitting in Abuja, the nation’s capital today, Wednesday, June 14, dismissed all 18-count charges of false asset declaration leveled against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
In December 2016, Fayose released twenty two (22) prophesies of the events that would occur in the country in the year 2017.
Number 8 of his 22 predictions for the year 2017 had predicted that the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) will absolve Saraki.
” Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) will absolve Senate President Bukola Saraki” Fayose had predicted.
Reacting to his prediction after the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) judgment, the governor said he was happy that he predicted that the CCT will absolve Saraki in his predictions made in December 2016 and “it has come to pass.”
In the statement, the Chairman of the PDP governors’ forum, said the judgment was another lesson for President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration that criminal cases are not won on the pages of newspapers.
According to him, “I am happy that I predicted that the CCT will absolve the Senate President in my 2017 predictions and it has come to pass.”
“I said it categorically that the Code of Conduct Tribunal will absolve Senate President Bukola Saraki and today, the prediction came to pass.”
“I have maintained that the government of President Buhari is not fighting any corruption. Rather, what is being done is hiding under anti-corruption fight to persecute, humiliate, harass and malign perceived political enemies.
“They go about trying their perceived political foes in the media, with the aim of destroying their names when they do not have any evidence that can sustain court trial and it is for this reason that they have been losing corruption cases.
“Look at all the noise they made when they started Senator Saraki’s case, it was as if he will be sent to jail the following week. But when it was time for them to prove their allegations, they could not.
“Even the case of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), that they said stole $2.1 billion arms money and that destructive weapons capable of disrupting the peace of any city in Nigeria were found in his possession, why are they the ones seeking for secret trial while Dasuki that they accused is insisting on open
trial?
“Up till today, they have not brought any evidence against Dasuki. They have not even been able to commence his trial. Instead, they have continually disobeyed court orders that he should be released from detention,” Fayose said.
