Drama as Fayose withdraws N5million from Zenith Bank

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose

There was drama at the Ado Ekiti branch of the Zenith Bank Plc yesterday when Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state stormed the bank demanding to make withdrawal from his accounts recently unfrozen on the orders of a federal high court.

Fayose who arrived the bank at 1:20 pm and made straight for the office of the  manager, Mr.Mojeed Adekunle, presented a withdrawal cheque of N5 million, saying, “I am ready to wait in your office till you close for the day as I want my money in cash.”

Adekunle confirmed to the governor that his office already received a copy as reported and would act on the directive, and at 3:20pm, the governor left the bank with N5 million cash, saying, “I’m not closing the accounts but if they attack my accounts again, I will make trouble with them, big trouble.”

Fayose’s two accounts with the bank was on June 20 frozen on the orders of the EFCC through an exparte order received from Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos on the allegation that the money there were ‘proceeds of crime’.

Fayose had on June 28 challenged the seizure of the accounts in court, and on Tuesday, December 13, Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti, ordered that Fayose’s accounts be unfrozen with immediate effect.