Fayose slams INEC, police over Edo, Rivers States elections; Says; “APC has merged with INEC, police”

By Lere Olayinka

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party

(PDP) Governors Forum, Mr Ayodele Fayose has slammed the Independent

National Electoral Commission (INEC), security agencies, especially

the police on their roles in subverting the rights of Nigerians to

choose their leaders in free, fair and credible elections.

He said; “While we continue to watch with keen interest, revelations

coming from the Edo State Governorship Election Tribunal, the open

display of partisanship in the Rivers State rerun elections has made

it so obvious that INEC and police have become so shameless in their

open display of support for the All Progressives Congress (APC).”

Governor Fayose’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New

Media, Lere Olayinka, quoted the governor as saying in a release

issued in Ado Ekiti on Thursday that it was worrisome that INEC and

the Police are no longer hiding their alliance with the APC against

Nigerians.
He said; “We have seen the police and INEC going back and forth on

Rivers State rerun elections and I wish to ask the police; what

happened to that suspect, Christian Chukwuemela Ekikeme, who

reportedly confessed to the complicity of some APC top-shots in the

murder of DSP Mohammed Alkali?
"Shouldn’t the police be more interested in bringing those who

allegedly killed its officer to justice?
“Also, what has happened to that Yobe State INEC Resident Electoral

Commissioner (REC) that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission

(EFCC) established to have received N15 million bribe to rig the Yobe

State election?”
The governor warned that any attempt to rig the 2018 governorship

election in Ekiti State will be resisted by the people, saying; “Here

in Ekiti, we are waiting for them. If INEC and its ally, APC like,

they can print as many Form EC8A as it can, they will fail.”

He said; “It is sad that snatching of ballot boxes, hijacking of

voting materials, electoral violence and most importantly,

falsification of election results, which had become a thing of the

past have returned to our electoral process. INEC and security

agencies, especially the police have merged with the APC and the way

they are going, results of elections will one day be announced in

Abuja in favour of APC without casting a single
ballot.”
Governor Fayose, who called on the international community, especially

election observers to pay more attention to the conduct of elections

in Nigeria under the APC government, said; “Democracy is in danger in

Nigeria! God forbid, if Nigeria is allowed to sink beyond the level

that it is now, the entire continent of Africa will not be able to

control the consequences.”