{"id":11926,"date":"2018-09-16T17:04:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11926"},"modified":"2018-09-16T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T17:04:06","slug":"efcc-writes-immigrations-put-fayose-on-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11926","title":{"rendered":"EFCC writes Immigrations, puts Fayose on watch list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With just a few weeks to the end of his tenure, it is clear that Ekiti Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has troubles awaiting him from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as a leaked memo from the commission to the Comptroller-General of Immigration shows.<br \/>\nIn the memo (as attached), the commission&#8217;s acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu, pointed out that Fayose was under investigation for corruption-related matters.<br \/>\nHe said there was reasonable suspicion that the Governor would make a go for the borders and should be watch listed and arrested, if he did.<br \/>\nAsked if it was appropriate to ask a sitting Governor to be watch listed and arrested while still in office, the Commission&#8217;s spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, declined to comment because he had not seen the memo.<br \/>\nUnder the Constitution, a governor enjoys immunity from arrest until after his tenure.<br \/>\nFayose is notorious for vitriolic attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11927\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG-20180916-WA0054-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The EFCC memo putting Fayose on watch list<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just a few weeks to the end of his tenure, it is clear that Ekiti Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has troubles awaiting him from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as a leaked memo from the commission to the Comptroller-General of Immigration shows. In the memo (as attached), the commission&#8217;s acting chairman, Ibrahim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}