The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has reacted to claims made by Governor Ayodele Fayose that the ruling party is planning to use the Supreme Court to twist his mandate to the benefit of the party.
Fayose had made this accusation on Tuesday, while speaking at a press conference in Lagos.
Responding to Faye’s allegation, the APC said his fraudulent and pre-emptive tactics will not prevent justice from taking its toll in the case of the biggest electoral fraud in the history of Nigeria.
In a statement released by the Ekiti state chapter of the party, Taiwo Olatunbosun said the governor’s attempt to garner help from the international community was a bid to make fraud legal.
“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 how he collected INEC soft copies and got them printed to win the election.”
The statement also said that the governor’s bid to plead with President Muhammadu Buhari has failed repeatedly, which is why he attacks him everyday.
“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.”
“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?”
