Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti
State has alleged that the administration of President Mohammadu Buhari and his
ruling party, All Progressive Congress (APC) have killed democracy in Nigeria
with the outcome of what he described as electoral fraud in Osun State on
Thursday.
He was reacting to the
declaration of APC ‘s Gboyega Isiaka Oyetola as the winner of the September 27
re-run governorship poll in the state by the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC). He described the conduct of the poll as a show of shame to democracy,
adding that Nigeria will now become a laughing stock before democracy adherents
and lovers in the international community.
Fayose said: “With the show of
shame that happened in last Saturday’s Osun state governorship election in
general and the Thursday rerun in particular, there is no other conclusion to
draw than that democracy is now dead in our beloved country”, he said.
The governor who spoke through
his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, decried the conduct of the
governorship poll in Osun as well as its outcome, alleging that it is a
perversion of the will of the people rather than an encouragement of democracy.
“It was obvious even to the blind
that the Osun election, as was the case with Ekiti, was a contest between the
PDP and the security agencies supervised by a compromised INEC.”
Fayose added that the University
professors also used as returning officers by INEC have, ab initio, been
compromised and only serve the interest of those he described as their pay
masters.
“Therefore, we want to believe
that conscionable Nigerians and the survival of this country as a whole are at
the mercy of God and of the judiciary. And if the judiciary fails to rise up to
the occasion, Nigerians will be among men the most miserable”
Reviewing previous elections,
Fayose said the ruling APC has perfected various forms of what he called
“rigging plans, beginning with Edo, going forward to Ondo and Ekiti and now
Osun state”.
The Ekiti governor commended
Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke for having fought a good fight: “You did not
lose but your mandate has only been stolen.”
Fayose then condemned the
violence that attended the election, sympathised with the families of those
killed and enjoined PDP members to refrain from taking the law into their own
hands, assuring that: “Help will come soon”.
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