Browsing: All Progressives Congress (APC)

On October 26, 2010, exactly ten days after Governor Kayode Fayemi assumed office as the governor of Ekiti State based on what is now known as the ‘Salamic’ judgment, I wrote an article titled; “Ekiti: Between men and God.”

Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said the call by the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that he be arrested over recent political developments in the state was baseless, spurious and came from an ignorant mind.

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has told Nigerians to hold Mr. Ayo Fayose, the State Governor-elect, liable for the current crisis in the State; saying that the State has been relatively peaceful until Fayose’s attack on judges and disruption of court proceedings during the week.

“It is also as clear as daylight that the kind of money being dangled at the lawmakers to impeach Gov. Al-Makura at all costs could only have come from a deep purse or a war chest. With almost 30 million Naira and other perks being reportedly offered to each lawmaker just to take out an opposition Governor, it is clear in whose interest and at whose behest such is being done

“INEC has been painfully slow in processing the permanent voters cards, and one can only hope that the electoral body is not doing this deliberately to disenfranchise voters, especially in opposition strongholds,” the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

A press statement from the media office of the former Vice President noted that the action of the PDP-led federal government in stopping the governors of Kano, Rivers and Edo from attending the APC governorship campaign rally in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, in a Gestapo-like manner is capable of turning Nigeria into a Banana Republic where fundamental rights of citizens are trampled upon with impunity

In the statement signed by the party’s Director of Publicity and Media, Segun Dipe, APC alleged that it gleaned from a meeting held at Spotless Hotel owned by the PDP governorship candidate, Ayo Fayose the plan to use the PDP thugs to disrupt the APC rally, which is the final Mega Rally to be held by the ruling party before the
Saturday June 21 election and turn round to accuse APC of carrying out a reprisal action over the Sunday June 8 shooting and tear-gassing by the policemen, which culminated in the PDP thugs taking advantage to overrun the APC procession