Ekitigate: You can’t escape Justice, APC tells Fayose
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has
responded to Governor Ayodele Fayose’s allegations in his
press conference in Lagos purporting that APC was
planning to illegally use the Supreme Court to upturn his
mandate in favour of the party.
The party accused the governor of blackmail, saying his
fraudulent and pre-emptive tactics will not stop justice
from taking its course in the resolution of the biggest
electoral fraud in the history of Nigeria.
Publicity Secretary of APC, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in a
statement that Fayose’s alleged fraudulent attempt to draw
the support of the international community to poll fraud
was an impish attempt to legitimise fraud, stressing that
the same international community had since realized that
world leaders were also victims of Fayose and Peoples
Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) fraud by misleading them in
Fayose’s electoral victory in Ekiti State.
“Even though the international community declared that
Ekiti poll that produced Fayose was fair, the same world
leaders have since changed their position after listening to
Ekiti poll fraud tape as secretly recorded by Captain Sagir
Koli detailing how Fayose and PDP leaders rigged the
election, including Fayose himself talking in the tape on
how he collected INEC soft copies and got them printed to
win the election,” Olatunbosun explained.
He added that the governor was running away from his
shadow after failed bids to beg President Muhammadu
Buhari who he abuses daily.
“Why did Fayose try to pressurize members of the Military
Panel to rescue him? After his emissaries returned empty-
handed in their failed bids to achieve their aims, Fayose
has now resorted to blackmail, accusing the President of
trying to destroy democracy and we wonder who among
him and the President is the enemy of democracy.
“This is the man that sacked the court and beat up a judge.
This is a man that used seven members to impeach a
Speaker and closed the House of Assembly against 19
members of the Assembly for six months. This is a man
that ran all opposition politicians out of town during
elections and launched relentless attacks on opposition
candidates during election,” Olatunbosun said.
He said Fayose should explain to Nigerians and the
international community what he meant in the Ekiti poll
fraud tape where he said he collected INEC soft copies that
he printed to win his election.
He said: “Besides declaring in the tape that he collected
INEC soft copies that he printed, Fayose also said in the
tape that a collation was done days before the election in
Efon-Alaye and we want to ask whether Efon-Alaye was the
collation centre for Ekiti governorship election and
whether it is not a fraud to collate the result of an election
that had not been held.
“If a criminal case that is taken to court and the court
assumes jurisdiction to try that criminal case is what
Fayose would call illegality and destruction of democracy,
is it printing INEC soft copies and collation of results days
to the election that is legal and a boost to the practice of
democracy in Nigeria?”
The party said no amount of crocodile tears shed from one
television house to the other and blackmail of the ruling
party would make him escape justice in the resolution of
Ekiti State election fraud.