Ekiti State
Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
and its candidate in the Edo State governorship election, Pastor Osagie
Ize-
Iyamu contested against the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), not the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing the APC victory in
the election as “victory only made possible by the use of federal government
agencies to subvert the will of the people.”
Governor
Fayose, who lamented that the win at all cost attitude of the APC was inimical
to the sustenance of democracy in the country, said it was sad that instead of
the people of Edo State electing their own governor, the APC conspired with
INEC to foist its own governor on the people.
Speaking on
the outcome of the election through his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said it was
unfortunate that those whose change was made possible because the then PDP
government allowed the people the freedom to make a choice have now eroded the
independence of INEC.
Governor
Fayose said; “the stage for the manipulation of the election was set by the use
of security agencies to postpone the election, even when there was no single
security threat and what was witnessed in Edo State last Wednesday was the
execution of the rigging plans perfected after the postponement.”
He said it should
be obvious to all lovers of democracy in Nigeria and the international
community that the APC led federal government will never allow free and fair
election in the country as the PDP and other opposition parties now contest
elections against INEC.
He noted that;
“the power of the people to choose their governor was completely robbed at
gunpoint in Edo State. Unfortunately too, these elements have even murdered the
rights of Nigerians to protest against the subversion of their will and it is
now obvious that only the insistence of Nigerians can save democracy in the
country.
“Like I have
said before, we are already seeing signs of what to come in 2019 and Nigerians
should know by now that it will only take their insistence for their votes to
count as long as these APC elements remain in power.”
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