The Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) has rejected in its entirety the results concocted by the All
Progressives Congress (APC), the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) and security agencies, in the governorship election in Ekiti state and
declared by INEC.
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| PDP GUBER CANDIDATE, PROF. OLUSOLA ELEKA |
The party rejects the
falsified results and declaration of APC candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to be
the winner of the election, as a daylight robbery, a brazen subversion of the
will of the people and a direct assault on our democracy.
From the authentic results
flowing directly from the polling centers across the state, it is clear that
the PDP candidate, Prof. Kolapo Olusola-Eleka, incontrovertibly won the
election, with a very comfortable margin over the APC candidate, only for INEC
to allow the alteration of results at the collation centers.
Painfully, the people of
Ekiti state were pillaged, openly brutalized, confronted with the worst form of
cruelty and intimidation from security agencies, and their mandate, which they
freely gave to the PDP, was snatched at ‘gunpoint’ by enemies of democracy, who
are parading themselves as icons of anti-corruption.
Nigerians are witnesses to
all manipulations by the APC, aided by security agencies and compromised INEC
officials, to rig the election, particularly, the audacious alteration and
substitution of election results in favour of the APC at the collation centers
amidst the brutalization of our agents.
The PDP has the details of
all the polling units where we won, mostly with very wide margin ahead of the
APC, only for the security agencies to chase away our agents, then aid the
alteration and swapping of such results with those smuggled in by the APC at
the collation centers.
We have the detail of the
discrepancies between the authentic results from the polling units and the
false figures eventually announced by INEC.
It is also instructive to
state that all the issues we raised ahead of the election, including the
conspiracy between the APC, some compromised INEC officials and security
agencies; the importation of thugs from other states by the APC; the use of
brute force against our members, the falsification and alteration of results in
favour of the APC, all manifested in the election.
We know how APC conspired
with INEC to bring in card reader machines belonging to Kogi, Lagos, Ondo, Oyo,
Ogun states into Ekiti state to enable APC members from these states to vote in
Ekiti election with ease.
Nigerians will recall the
irresponsible and inciting statement credited to the factional National
Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, where he threatened that the opposition
will be “crushed” in this election.
The APC governorship
candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, also vowed that they will “cage” the Ekiti State
governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose.
These threats were carried
out with the full collaboration of our security agencies.
Furthermore, the PDP has
details of how APC state governors and federal ministers diverted huge sums of
money from their states and ministries to bribe top officials of INEC,
particularly, those in the ICT Department as well as security agencies to
perfect the brigandage against the people of Ekiti state.
The PDP holds strongly that
there is no way our democracy can survive with an electoral process as
witnessed in Ekiti state under President Muhammadu Buhari and the current INEC
leadership.
This bare-faced subversion
of the will of the people is a clear recipe for crisis and we invite Nigerians
and the international community to hold President Buhari, the APC, the INEC
Chairman and heads of security agencies in Nigeria responsible should there be
any breakdown of law and order in Ekiti state as a result of this election.
This robbery of the
franchise of Ekiti people is a horrible rape of our democracy and it is most
uncharitable that it could happen under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari
as well as the participation of the APC, who hugely benefitted from the
credible electoral process midwived by the PDP in 2015.
It is shameful that APC and
President Buhari, who jointly won a pan Nigerian election in 2015, now rely
heavily on brute force to deliver their gubernatorial candidate in Ekiti state.
This, indeed, is very shameful!
Finally, let it be known to
all that, surely, this electoral banditry will not stand. The PDP is already
collating all the infractions in this election and within the possible
timeframe, we shall make our next step to reclaiming our stolen mandate public.
