The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele
Fayose, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of
conniving with the All Progressives Congress to rig the Ondo
governorship election taking place on Saturday (today).
The governor raised the alarm in a statement on Friday. Fayose, who said democracy had been
placed on trial in
Ondo State, urged the people to be vigilant, alleging
that “the INEC Returning Officers already have fake results that they
will announce to Nigerians as they did in Edo State.”
“The sad reality confronting the
electoral process in Nigeria today is that apart from the APC, other
political parties are now contesting elections against INEC,” he
claimed.
Fayose urged the people to go out and vote and stand by their votes.
“They must follow their votes from the
polling stations to the ward collation centres, local government
collation centres and the State collation centre.”
The governor said information available
to him indicated that the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye
Ekiti, Prof. Kayode Soremekun, who was the INEC Returning Officer in
the recently concluded Edo State governorship election, would serve as
the Returning Officer for the Ondo State election.
Querying the rationale, Fayose said,
“The questions that came to my mind were; is Prof Kayode Soremekun the
only Vice Chancellor in Nigeria? Is FUOYE the only federal university in
Nigeria? Is Ekiti the only state where INEC can find returning
officers?
“Definitely, INEC is up to a sinister
game in the Ondo State election and it is obvious that the electoral
commission is working with the APC.
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