Former Minister of Aviation and Director General of Goodluck Jonathan Campaign organization in the 2015 General election, Femi Fani-Kayode has faced several ordeals in the hands of Anti- graft agencies, but nobody including the ex- minister ever thought his wife, Precious would one day be a guest at the Economic and Financial Crime Commission.
But Mrs Fani- Kayode practically spent the whole of Monday in the custody of EFCC.
Precious, who was in Ado-Ekiti together with her husband as guests of Governor Ayodele Fayose, had gone to Access Bank branch in Ado Ekiti around 3 p.m for transactions when she was
detained by officials of the bank acting on orders of the EFCC.
According to reports, she got a feeling that something awry was going on when she was not being promptly attended to, she inquired from officials what the problem was and was told she was being detained on the instruction of the EFCC.
It was then it dawn on the nursing mother, who had come to the banking hall with her eight month old baby that she had to call for help.
It took the intervention of Governor Fayose who stormed the bank with some of his supporters around 7 pm to secure her release.
Upon her release, she however, spoke to newsmen shortly after the incident lamenting who she was badly treated by the officials while her baby was denied food
“I’m not a politician and that account had been dormant for about five years. I only activated it last month in Port Harcourt.
“I decided to go to Access Bank to make some withdrawals when I was detained on the instruction of the EFCC.
“They told me account had been frozen and they were asked by the EFCC to arrest me on the spot". She concluded.
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