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| Governor Ayodele Fayose |
of making plans to rig the Ondo nation governorship election.
Governor Fayose in a announcement on Friday, alleged that “the Returning officials by means of INEC already have faux outcomes that they may announce to Nigerians as they did in Edo country,” adding that “The sad reality confronting the electoral method in Nigeria today is that aside from the APC, other political parties are actually contesting elections against INEC.”
The announcement read; “on the early hours of nowadays, facts got here in that the Vice Chancellor of the Federal university, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof Kayode Soremekun, who became the INEC Returning Officer in the lately concluded Edo nation governorship election this is nevertheless a topic of litigation, may even serve as the Returning Officer for the Ondo nation election.
“The questions that came to my mind have been; is Prof Kayode Soremekun the most effective Vice Chancellor in Nigeria? Is FUOYE the handiest federal college in Nigeria? Is Ekiti the most effective state in which INEC can discover Returning officers?
“virtually, INEC is up to a sinister game on the Ondo state election and it's miles apparent that the electoral fee is running with the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“This notion turned into in addition made take place by the response of Prof Soremekun to a SMS and a call, announcing that he turned into handiest being used as decoy via INEC.
“This become further corroborated via the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ondo country, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, who said on tv that identities of those for use as Returning officers are being stored secret.
“glaringly, it is clean past any doubt that INEC is handiest looking to make a volte-face, after its sinister motive of using the equal humans it used to rig the Edo kingdom election become uncovered.
“Electoral process should an open e-book that absolutely everyone can examine. alas, much less than 24 hours to the Ondo country election, INEC is telling Nigerians and the whole global that identities of these to serve as Returning officials are being kept mystery.
“Why have to those a good way to behavior election be hidden from Nigerians?
Is election now a mystery affair?
“The unhappy fact confronting the electoral method in Nigeria today is that other than the APC, different political parties are now contesting elections towards INEC.
“it's miles clear that the Returning officials have already got faux consequences that they'll announce to Nigerians as they did in Edo state.
“evidently, democracy in Nigeria has suffered a critical setback and it's going to take the insistence and resistance of the human beings of Ondo kingdom for his or her votes to remember day after today.
“furthermore, to sustain the planned rigging, names of a few judges seen as trusted sufficient to present the APC favourable judgment were compiled for use as individuals of the Election Petition Tribunal. In other phrases, the election tribunal has been constituted even earlier than the election is held.
“I therefore urge the people of Ondo country to be extremely vigilant. once they go out the next day to cast their votes, they should stand via their votes. They must observe their votes from the polling stations to the ward collation centres, local authorities collation centres and the kingdom collation centre.
“My expensive human beings of Ondo nation, if they tell you to depart the kingdom collation centre at any time that collation might be suspended as they did in Edo state, resist it. stay conscious all night time on Saturday until very last end result is introduced.
“INEC must be reminded this is has a responsibility to Nigerians and now not APC.
The humans of Ondo state need to be the one to decide on their very own governor, not INEC.
“therefore, the next day’s election ought to be unfastened, truthful and credible.
“Nigerians must don't forget there's no alternative to democracy, we should
salvage it together.”
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