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Zenith Bank Officials came to beg me, they funded my election – Fayose claims [PHOTOS/VIDEO]

The embattled Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, on Thursday evening claimed that the “top management” of Zenith Bank Plc came to beg him over the involvement of the bank in the funding of the June 21, 2014 governorship election that threw him up.

Before the visit, Fayose had in a statement on Thursday insisted that the Bank bankrolled his election, though sources in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said there was no proof of this.

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In a statement on Thursday night, Fayose said the Zenith Bank team that came to beg him was led by an Executive Director, Sola Oladipo.

He said it also had two Zonal Directors of the bank and the Ado-Ekiti Branch Manager.
However, none of the Bank officials stated their mission to the Government House in Ado-Ekiti.
But Fayose said: “They were begging me and that the matter should not go beyond this level.

“I asked them why did they go to the EFCC to tell lies.
“Why did they have to lie that money came from the Office of the National Security Adviser?
“If the money is for me, why did they have to link with me what is not?”
In an earlier statement, Fayose said the bank should come out with an official statement on the matter.
The governor was reacting to a news report in the media claiming that the bank had dissociated itself from the funding of his election.
Speaking through his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado Ekiti on Thursday,  the governor said: “I stand by my claim that Zenith Bank Plc majorly funded my election in June 2014.
“I don’t expect an organisation like Zenith Bank to stay in a corner in matter of national concern like this and be talking.

“Rather, I expect the Zenith Bank to issue an official statement not as feeble as this one being peddled in the media so that I can begin the second stage of my revelations.

“My statement was made in the open and if I can accuse an institution like Zenith Bank in the open, I expect the institution to give official reply.

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“All what have been claimed to have been said by the Zenith Bank in the media can be situated in the realm of rumour.

“And I want to refer the APC, the Zenith Bank and the EFCC to John chapter 8 verses 6-7, which says: ‘This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

“‘When they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said unto them, he that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone‎.

“‘Let those who are orchestrating this know that failure awaits them.’”

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