The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has printed and distributed 250,000 copies of audio and video recordings of the details of how the June 21, 2014 governorship election was rigged in favour of Governor Ayodele Fayose.
The APC said this was done in a grand conspiracy coordinated by some officers of the Nigerian Army.
According to a statement by the Ekiti State Publicity Secretary of the party, Taiwo Olatubosun, the party took the step to let the world know the truth about Ekiti State election miracle where a governor with unrivaled sterling performance failed to win a single local government out of the16 local governments of the state, including his own.
Olatubosun said it was an election that gave victory to Fayose who two years earlier lost a senatorial election in the state.
He added that details of the corrupt practices by soldiers as contained in the tape lent credence to the inclusion of the military as a defendant at the Ekiti State Election Petitions Tribunal challenging the return of Fayose as the winner of the election.
In the tape secretly recorded by Captain Sagir Koli of the Nigerian Army, voices of the participants in the election fraud were heard talking about operational details and giving instructions on how to help Fayose win the election.
Koli went on exile after releasing the tape.
Another group, an NGO, had two weeks ago produced 200,000 copies and distributed them around the world, with copies sent to the secretariats of the United Nations, the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States.
Olatubosun said in the statement on Thursday: “Nigerians and indeed decent people of the world will hear of how a Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army was thoroughly disgraced by brigands and lawless individuals in Peoples Democratic Party who should ordinarily quiver when an army corporal gives orders.
“Nigerians will hear a Brigadier-General talking of how he set up “Strike Forces” to be unleashed on APC leaders and supporters to cow them to submission to ensure victory for Fayose.
“It is a pity and tragedy of our history that a man who is supposed to be in chains and drilled in frog jump by a Nigerian Army recruit for his crime is the one assuring a serving Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army of promotion if he could help PDP in the dishonourable enterprise of poll fraud in favour of a man with several alleged criminal cases in courts.
“Nigerians will hear Fayose and other co-conspirators talking and boasting that the top echelons of the Nigerian Army and their Commander-In-Chief were the chief executioners of Ekiti poll fraud. The world will hear Fayose talking about how he collected soft copies of INEC’s sensitive election materials and got them printed to give him victory.”
The APC spokesman said the revelation by Fayose that he collected soft copies of the Independent National Electoral Commission sensitive materials and got them printed had confirmed the party’s claim that photochromic papers were used to fix the election in his favour.
Olatubosun called INEC’s and security agencies’ attention to the alarm raised by the APC two weeks ago over the night importation of thugs in six 18-seater buses hiding military uniforms in their luggage and lodged in the Afao-Ekiti country home of Fayose.
He claimed that after APC’s alarm, the thugs were relocated to the Government House, Ado Ekiti, where they were being drilled on their election rigging assignment.
He urged INEC to allow voters bring their cameras to polling centres on election day to record full election procedures to guard against those still bent of fraudulent practices at the polls.
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