I Called Wike, But DSS Doctored Our Conversation – Fayose
Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose has
blamed the Department of State Services for
leaking an edited copy of his telephone with
the governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike to
incriminate him and Wike.
“If the President and his hatchet men in the
DSS, EFCC and other federal government
agencies do not know what to do other than to
record phone conversations of their perceived
political foes, they should just resign and save the country from this harrowing experience,” Fayose said in a statement through Lere Olayinka, his special
assistant on public communications and new
media.
An online medium, Sahara Reporters, on
Thursday, published an audio tape in which a
person purported to be Wike confessed to how he
used his position as the governor of the state to
influence the outcome of the bloody December 10
Rivers rerun polls .
Though the Ekiti State governor did not
disclaim the leaked audio tape, he, however, that it
had been doctored.
“If the President and his hatchet men in the
DSS, EFCC and other federal government
agencies do not know what to do other than to record phone conversations of their perceived political foes, they should just resign and save the country from this
harrowing experience,” he said.
He insisted the federal government was threatened by his popularity and endorsement by notable religious leaders such as Enoch Adeboye and Pastor W. F. Kumuyi. The ruling All Progressives Congress thus resorted to using the DSS and other security agencies to intimidate him and other leading opposition figures, he said.
The governor described the DSS secretly recording his telephone conversations as the height of the political rascality, manipulation, oppression, suppression and irresponsibility by agents of the federal government that are trying so hard to cover up the crimes they perpetrated against the people of Rivers State.
“They should even go beyond taping of my lines
and come to live with me in Ekiti government house
so that they can do per seconds live recordings of
whatever I say because in the year 2017, by the grace of God, I will still say more without apology,” he said.
While maintaining that the APC led federal
government do not respect the laws of the
country, Governor Fayose said; “They know
that what they are doing is illegal and clear
contravention of Section 37 of the 1999
Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, which provides that; ‘The privacy of
citizens, their homes, correspondence,
telephone conversations and telegraphic
communications is hereby guaranteed and
protected.’
“However, because they are criminally
minded and are running a tyrannical
government, using the DSS, EFCC and other
agencies, one is not surprised at the current
development.”
