Why PDP lost Ondo election – Fayose
*Says INEC rigged Ondo election in advance for APC
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has alleged that the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) connived with the All
Progressives Congress (APC) and other collaborators in the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) to rig the Ondo Governorship election.
He said; “Just as I would have loved to congratulate the
winner, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), because in every contest, there must
be a winner and a loser, the role of INEC in awarding victory to him in
the election left much to be desired.”
The governor in a statement issued by his Special Assistant
on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayina, said INEC gave
the APC victory in the election by deliberately replacing the name of Mr
Eyitayo Jegede, the PDP candidate, thereby creating legal logjam that
lasted till three days to the election.
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He said that the PDP went to the election with its hands
tied to the back because of the uncharitable actions of INEC, which has
no doubt become an arm of the APC.
He maintained that apart from the APC, political parties in Nigeria are now contesting elections against INEC.
Governor Fayose said that, “to sustain the ‘see and buy’
strategy and legalise money politics, the APC-led federal government
deliberately created poverty in the country so as to continue to enslave
the minds of Nigerians with peanuts to get their votes on election day,
saying; “Dibo ko sebe (vote and collect money to cook soup) was the
slang used by the APC in the Ondo State election and that only worked
because the APC federal government have put Nigerians in abject poverty.
“Even though INEC allowed what appeared like a free and
fair atmosphere on the election day, the election had been won and lost
before it was held.
“For instance, INEC that witnessed the PDP primary election
that produced Mr Eyitayo Jegede succumbed to pressure from the APC
cabal to replace him with Jimoh Ibrahim, who did not take part in any
primary election known to the Electoral Act.
“What could anyone have done under 72 hours in an election that was heavily monetised by the APC?
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