The Ekiti State Government yesterday accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of conducting investigation by “trial and error”.It alleged that “officials of the EFCC stormed a popular guest house in Abuja on Tuesday to seal off the property believing that Governor Ayodele Fayose owned the guest house only for them to be confronted with the fact that the operator leased the property for 10 years.”

In a statement yesterday by the Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to the Governor, Lere Olayinka, the state government said it was only in Nigeria that an anti-corruption agency would first arrest a suspect before looking for evidence to prosecute him or her.

“Today (yesterday), the EFCC demonstrated that it has been lying against Governor Fayose and other Nigerians all along by the failed attempt it made to seal off a property located on Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja that is being used as a guest house just because the governor used to lodge there.

“It was at the point of sealing off the property that the owner told the EFCC officials that he only leased the property for 10 years from its owner, a former Chief of Defence Staff who was also a Minister of Defence,” the statement read.