Ekiti APC Wants AGF to Prosecute Governorship Poll Riggers…
Fayose warns Buhari against political persecution
Olakiitan Victor
Following confessional statement made by the embattled Ekiti State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dr. Tope Aluko, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has urged the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to prosecute all indicted persons in the election rigging scandal.
The party said it had on two occasions petitioned the Office of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice on the same matter, stressing that the latest revelations by PDP scribe had made it imperative for the nation’s chief law officer to act urgently.
Aluko, former Fayose’s political ally, had last Sunday on Channels Television, said the Governor Ayodele Fayose was rigged into power through the June 21, 2014, governorship poll, where he defeated the then sitting governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, noted in a statement yesterday that the election fraud crisis had refused to go despite all shenanigans of Fayose, whom he said was the biggest beneficiary of the election fraud that had created blight on Nigeria’s international image.
The APC said President Muhammadu Buhari should use the state election fraud case to convince Nigerians that official impunity and fraud would not have a place in Nigeria under his watch.
“By Aluko’s revelations, we are justified in our claim that our candidate, Fayemi, never lost that election, but was criminally toppled by a coup d’etat orchestrated by Fayose in cahoots with President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration that illegally deployed money and the military to ensure victory for Fayose.
“It is interesting that more names are coming up in the biggest election scam ever witnessed in Nigeria with the alleged participation of Ifeanyi Ubah of the infamous Transformation Agenda for Nigeria
(TAN), a shadowy campaign group for President Jonathan in the fraud. No wonder Ubah was compensated with an honorary Fellow by Fayose at the Ekiti State College of Education for a job well done.
“It is in the light of this that we are calling on the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation to prosecute all the suspects in the election fraud for treasonable felony to preserve the integrity of the Nigerian Constitution,” Olatunbosun said.
Meanwhile, Fayose has advised President Buhari against persecuting political opponents or working to emasculate the judicial arm.
The governor also urged the president to tell Nigerians the truth about the Boko Haram insurgency, saying,: “They keep telling us that they have defeated Boko Haram technically while Nigerians are still being killed daily by sect with over 100 people killed in Dalori, less than 12 kilometres to Maiduguri, Borno State capital.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications, Fayose said the president should have simply told the whole world that he hated the Nigeria judiciary
because he lost the petitions that he filed against his electoral defeats in 2003, 2007 and 2011 instead of hiding under the fight against corruption to ventilate his anger.
The governor, who said there was nothing wrong with the legal system in Nigeria, added that: “In recent times, politicians like President Buhari are the ones responsible for the wrath in the judiciary because of their desperation to use the courts to foist one party state on Nigerians with conflicting judgments from election tribunals.”
He said making noise in the media about discovery of fraud was different from being able to prove allegations of fraud in the court, adding that: “The President and his men should stop media trial and playing with bogus figures.
“This is because as it is today, President Buhari is not fighting any corruption, rather, he is engaging in political persecution in his bid to weaken opposition both in the PDP and within his own party, the APC.”