EKITI PDP CHIEF -MY LIFE IS BEING THREATNED

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief who blew the whistle on the
alleged rigging of the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State
yesterday alleged that his life was under threat.
Dr. Temitope Aluko, who on Sunday spoke of how former President
Goodluck Jonathan allegedly gave Governor Ayo Fayose $37 million
to prosecute the election and directed that the military should
facilitate victory for the then PDP candidate, said he escaped from the
hands of “fake security men” on Sunday night.
He also indicted many politicians and military chiefs.
But Fayose described him as desperate and denied the allegations.
Also yesterday, All Progressives Congress (APC) urged the
government to prosecute all the people indicted by the ex-PDP chief.
A human rights lawyer, Morakinyo Ogele also called on the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the $37m allegedly
given to Fayose by Jonathan.
Aluko said yesterday: “After the live television interview on Politics
Today on Channels Television on Sunday at about 9.30 pm, my
attention was drawn to the presence of some operatives supposedly
from the office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), seeking to
effect my arrest.
“However, having passed though the same route before, my instinct
immediately told me that something was amiss. I made some calls
and found out that there was no such order to effect my arrest by the
office of the IGP or from any other security agency for that matter.
“I was later made to understand that the ‘fake’ security agents were
actually miscreants posing as security men and acting on the orders
of Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose to get rid of me at all cost.
“I must let Nigerians know that I have made a resolution to let the
whole world know what transpired during the Ekiti 2014 governorship
poll.”
The Ekiti APC, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo
Olatunbosun, called on the Attorney General of the Federation and
Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami (SAN) to prosecute all those
named in the Ekiti 2014 election rigging drama.
The party said it had twice petitioned the Office of the Attorney
General and Minister of Justice on the matter, stressing that the
revelations by PDP secretary had made it imperative that the nation’s
chief law officer must act now.
Olatunbosun said the election fraud crisis had refused to go despite
all shenanigans by Fayose, who he said was the biggest beneficiary of
the election fraud that created a blight on Nigeria’s international
image.
The APC spokesman said even though there was nothing new in the
PDP Secretary’s revelations, he noted, however, that it had become
pertinent to prosecute the suspects as the revelations were again
emanating from the insider who participated fully in what is now
known as Ekitigate.
“By Aluko’s revelations, we are justified in our claim that our
candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi, never lost that election, but was
criminally toppled by a coup d’etat orchestrated by Fayose in cahoots
with President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration that illegally
deployed money and the military to ensure victory for Fayose.
“It is interesting that more names are coming up in the biggest
election scam ever witnessed in Nigeria with the alleged participation
of Ifeanyi Ubah of the infamous Transformation Agenda for Nigeria
(TAN), a shadowy campaign group for former President Jonathan in
the fraud. No wonder Ubah was compensated with a honorary Fellow
by Fayose at the Ekiti State College of Education for a job well done.”
Ubah denied ever giving Fayose money for the election.
Olatunbosun went on: “It is in the light of this that we are calling on
the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation to
prosecute all the suspects in the election fraud for treasonable felony
to preserve the integrity of the Nigerian Constitution.”
The APC said President Muhammadu Buhari should use Ekiti election
“fraud” case to convince Nigerians that official impunity and fraud
would not have a place in Nigeria under his watch.
“We have seen the Army already tackling the military aspect of the
Army Probe Panel report. We expect the police and attorney general of
the federation to also toe the line in coming out with the civilian
component of the probe report and act accordingly.
“The military men were mere agents used by Fayose to rig the
election. Some of the officers implicated in Fayose’s crime had been
recommended for various sanctions, including losing their jobs while
others are to face prosecution by the EFCC and court martial,
according to the military rules and administrative procedure.
“These military men should not be made to suffer alone for the crime
committed in conjunction with Fayose and his fellow conspirators in
PDP who are still working free as if there is no law in this country,” he
said.
Olatunbosun berated Fayose’s media aides, Lanre Ogunsuyi and Lere
Olayinka, for claiming that Captain Koli’s audio tape was a forgery,
saying, however, that it was gratifying that Fayose, who also first
denied his voice on the tape, later admitted that it was his.
“If the Ekiti audio tape was a forgery as they alleged, were the
appearances of Koli and Tope Aluko also forgeries?” he said.
Noting that Fayose had always mouthed his readiness to wave his
immunity to face prosecution over alleged crimes, he said now was
the time to wave that immunity to face prosecution on the electoral
fraud.
He insisted that APC would not accept anything short of
comprehensive review of the Ekiti State election saga, even as he
urged Nigerians to prevail on the Minister of Justice to compel Fayose
to explain to the world what he meant by saying that he collected
INEC soft copies and got them printed as captured in Captain Sagir
Koli’s tape detailing all activities connected with Ekiti poll rigging.
“Besides Fayose talking on the tape about how INEC gave him soft
copies that he printed to win the election, the minister of justice must
also compel the governor, who spoke on election result collation in
the tape, to tell Nigerians which election result he was collating in
Efon-Alaye on June 19, 2014, two clear days before the June 21,
2014 governorship election,” Olatunbosun concluded.
Ogele urged Fayose to resign from office within seven days “because
the election that brought him to office was highly compromised”.
He vowed to approach the Federal High Court if Fayose fails to resign
to seek a declaration that the election is null and void by reason of
the latest facts and figures released by Fayose’s former right-hand
man.
The activist-lawyer also challenged the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) to explain its own side of the story following the
alleged sharing of N1 billion by its officials to compromise the Ekiti
poll.
“They have the statutory power to probe this fraud; they should look
into it to ascertain whether it is part of the arms money diverted and
shared among many people. If truly the Federal Government is
determined to fight corruption, EFCC, as a matter of urgency, should
comb Ekiti for this gigantic fraud.”source thenationonline