Fayose gave me N75m - Ozekhome says after EFCC froze his account

Fayose gave me N75m - Ozekhome says after EFCC froze his account

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome, has revealed that the N75 million in his GTB account was actually paid to him by Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state.

Fayose gave me N75m - Ozekhome says after EFCC froze his account
Ozekhome says the money found in his account was paid to him by Fayose

He however insists that the money was not a proceed from crime but his legal entitlement for working for the governor who he called his client.

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Ozekhome’s account was frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after the anti-graft agency got a judgement through a motion ex-parte from a Federal High Court, Lagos.

This was after the EFCC’s lawyer, Idris Abdulahi Mohammed, asked the court for a 120-day freezing of the account to allow for thorough investigation of an alleged money laundering case against the lawyer.

But the New Telegraph reports that in his reaction to the judgement, Ozekhome said: “For the records, the N75 million was paid into my account by my client, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state, as part payment of professional fees for the numerous cases my chambers is currently handling for him (in his personal capacity) and his aides across Nigeria.

“On the 13th day of December, 2016, I defeated the EFCC in a judgment delivered by the Honourable Justice Taiwo O Taiwo, sitting at the Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti.

“In his judgment dated 13th December, 2016, the court ordered the EFCC to immediately defreeze two accounts belonging to Governor Fayose and domiciled with Zenith Bank Plc, which accounts EFCC had, illegally, unconstitutionally, an in a most uncouth and cavalier manner frozen and blocked in Zenith Bank Plc.

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“The court described the action of the EFCC as ‘illegal, wrongful, unconstitutional and unlawful’.

“Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, the same lawyer who was said to have obtained the ex-parte order blocking my account from Honourable Justice Abdulazeez Anka, is the very counsel for the EFCC in the case I won for Governor Fayose before the Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti.”

Source: Legit.ng

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