Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti
state, says the All Progressive Congress (APC), will be disgraced during the
July 14 governorship election in the state.
In a statement on Thursday,
Fayose alleged that the APC is planning to rig the election.
He said he had uncovered a plot
to recruit APC members from neighbouring states and “arm them with identity
cards” of students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), then, use them
as INEC presiding and returning officers to “perfect the rigging”.
The governor alleged that Kayode
Soremekun, vice chancellor of FUOYE, is a card carrying member of APC and a
close ally of Kayode Fayemi, the APC candidate.
He alleged that over 2000
supposed FUOYE students have been registered; with a ”curious condition” that
they should provide bank account details of their close relations, ”apparently
to avoid tracing any payment into their own accounts”.
He recalled that the president
had ”categorically” said that Ekiti state must be taken by APC at all cost.
”Let me tell the president and
his men that they will be disgraced here in Ekiti because the power of the
people is greater than the power of those in power,” Fayose said.
”The question is, with over 9000
Youth Corps members in Ekiti state, what is the need for FUOYE students in an
election that is holding in less than 2,200 polling units?”
”INEC must come clean on this. The electoral umpire
must tell the public the rationale behind the plot to jettison Youth Corps
members for supposed FUOYE students,” he said.
”We hereby call on all men of
good conscience to stand up and be coubted in the fight against dictatorship,
election rigging and plot to subvert democracy in Nigeria.
”2019 general elections is close
by and Ekiti as well as Osun elections are prelude to what to expect in 2019.
”The international community must
prevail on INEC and the Buhari administration to allow free, fair and credible
election in Ekiti state.”
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