The Ekiti state chapter of the All
Progressives Congress, (APC) on Wednesday night reacted to claims by Governor
Ayo Fayose that some of its aspirants
planned to monetise Saturday’s governorship primary, describing it as figment
of his imagination.
The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN)
reports that the party, through its State Publicity Secretary, Chief Taiwo
Olatunbosun said what the governor had
just displayed by raising “false alarm” was a sign that he was afraid of an
impending loss by his party of the July gubernatorial election.
” Fayose is frustrated and
jittery, let him mind his business. He is not a member of our party so I don’t
know where he is picking his information from.
” APC is not like his own party,
the Peoples Democratic Party that has stolen our commonwealth and plunged the
nation into a state of coma
“Yes, we will mobilise our
members for the primary but the allegation that we are sharing that kind of
money by the governor is laughable
” We will do everything that is
right and within the constitution to send him out of the Government House, so
let him start packing.
“No amount of blackmail will stop
or derail us. The Ekiti people are set for the APC and we will make sure we
produce a candidate that is acceptable to the people.”he said.
At a press conference earlier on
Wednesday, Fayose raised the alarm over alleged movement of heavy cash into the
state by some unidentified aspirants of
the APC.
He said such monies were meant to
compromise the delegates.
He claimed that the governorship
election slated for July 14 in the state might also be compromised by the use
of cash, going by the alleged desperation of the aspirants who are jostling for
the ticket of the APC.
According to him, the way the
exercise was being compromised in the build up to ordinary primary, showed that
the APC was merely paying lip service to the war against corruption.
The Governor wondered where the
money being spent by the alleged and unidentified aspirants was coming from.
Fayose claimed that one
particular aspirant gave each delegate
N250,000, and another gave N500,000, with a promise to offer them N1million
each onSaturday, the day of the party primary.
He urged the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) and other relevant agencies to beam their searchlight
into the alleged monetisation of the electoral processes in the state and avoid
a repeat of same scenario when it comes to the gubernatorial election proper.
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