A group, League of Patriots has challenged the Senate Committee Chairman on Ethics Privileges and Public Petitions, Senator Patrick Ayo Akinyelure to defend his ‘billionaire’ status which he claimed during a media briefing following a publication by LeadingReporters on how Senator Ayo leverages his office to curry favour from indicted individuals and organizations. The group has provided part of facts and figures which they challenged Senator Patrick to fault, as part of the numerous evidence in their disposal that Senator Patrick Ayo Akinyelure should be stripped of his Committee Chairmanship.
The group, in a communique signed by its Spokesman Femi Adekunle and exclusively obtained by LeadingReporters said it is giving the Senator seven days to put out all his financial records prior to becoming a Senator and now that he is a Senator, failure of which, all the financial and statutory records of the Senator would be availed the public to judge for themselves.
Senator Ayo, through his media aide, in defending his principal has posited that Senator Patrick Ayo’s shot at politics was stirred by his desire to serve humanity and not to amass wealth. The aide claimed that Senator Ayo was a billionaire in different currencies before coming to politics, a claim investigation by LeadingReporters has found to be manipulative, deceitful and aimed at misleading the public from the allegations against the Senator.
Recall that LeadingReporters, has previously reported in one of its publications that it is privy to information that could prove that Senator Ayo lacks the morality to head a committee that is morally demanding. In response, Senator Ayo addressed a press conference where he strived to play down the substance of the allegations against him by claiming that LeadingReporters is a faceless online platform that is hired to destroyed his ‘hard-earned reputation’.
The Senator claimed that the online never reached out to him for his own side of the story before publication. A claim that further validates the belief that Senator Ayo is a man empty in morals as the online, through its official line severally called the Senator and left series of messages on March 30. The texts delivered on 10:55am on same day. Texts he never replied to. (See attached for proof below)
Senator Ayo further challenged LeadingReporters to come out with facts and figures to buttress the claim. While we are not perturbed with Senator Ayo’s cleverness at downplaying the substance of the allegation by making mischievous and frivolous claims, we are putting a little fact forward as a proof that ours is a media outfit that does not make claims without substance.
Meanwhile, League of Patriots, an organization founded by Nigeria patriots in home and diaspora with thematic objective of bracing leadership morality, and accountability in leadership has demanded that Senator Patrick Ayo steps down as the Senate Committee Chairman on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition to give way for thorough investigation into the huge allegations of abuse of office, corruption, and betrayal of trust reposed on him by Nigerians.