The former Speaker’s father alleged that he had it on “he has it on good authority that a plot is being perfected to ensure that his son does not come out of his present ordeal alive.”
Chief Bankole said this in a statement by the former Speaker’s Special Adviser on Communications, Chief Kayode Odunaro, on Monday.
He explained that “unanimous intelligence sources both within and outside the country have contacted him(the father) to reach out to anybody that can help safeguard the ex-speaker while in detention,” saying his son’s case was “not a judicial matter but political.”
The father of the embattled former Speaker claimed that his sources had pointed out “the desperate attempt of the EFCC to ensure that the erstwhile Speaker remains in detention as even when he secured bail from a Federal High Court, EFCC lawyer Barrister Festus Keyamo quickly filed other charges and opposed bail while asking the court for a long adjournment to hear the new bail application.”
Hesaid, “The fear is that Bankole may succeed in proving his innocence, a situation likely to embarrass EFCC and the nation.
“As if that was not enough, Keyamo told journalists outside the court that even after this second case filed, the EFCC is still going to bring more charges against Bankole apparently to ensure a long stay in detention.”
Chief Bankole called on well meaning Nigerians to come to his aid in ensuring that his son, “who served the nation meritoriously and has pleaded not guilty to all the charges brought against him so far is not harmed while in detention.”
By Agency Reporter Courtesy Of: Punch
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