Ekiti State
Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has told the All Progressives Congress (APC) to
stop chasing shadows on the June 21, 2014 governorship election in the State
and wait for 2018.
Fayose dismisses
Ekiti APC 102 petitions against 2014 guber election, says; “IGP should be
mindful of desperate paper-weight guber aspirants”
He said…………..
“Writing over
100 petitions to the office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) on an
election conducted two years ago and was adjudged as free, fair and credible
even by the international community, including the United States of America
government is a demonstration of the APC desperation to throw Ekiti State into
chaos just because the party lost power.”
Special
Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to the governor, Lere Olayinka,
in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, wondered how many petitions
should have been written against the Presidential Election if APC could write
over 100 petitions against an election held in just 16 out of the 774 Local
Councils in the country.”
The governor,
who advised the new IGP not to allow himself to dragged into the Ekiti State
APC blinded show of political desperation, added that; “the IGP should maintain
the culture of professional policing and maintenance of rule of law as done by
his immediate predecessor, Mr Solomon Arase. He should be mindful of being
drawn into needless political fights orchestrated by some APC governorship
aspirants in Ekiti State just because of fear of 2018.”
He pointed
out that; “assuming but not conceding that offences were committed by anyone
before, during and after the election held two years ago, the Ekiti State
Police Command would have carried out its investigation and made anyone found
culpable to face the law.
“It should
also be pointed out that it is the duty of the Attorney General of Ekiti State
to prosecute anyone that committed any offence in Ekiti State and not that of
the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF).
“Most
importantly, the IGP should be mindful of the reality that writing over 100
petitions to the police, two years after an election was won and lost and
expecting the police to embark on wanton arrest of innocent Ekiti people is a
clear invitation to anarchy and it is hoped that the new IGP won’t begin his
career as the number one police officer in Nigeria with the ridiculous action
of running after PDP members in Ekiti State instead of focusing on the growing
insecurity in the country.”
Speaking
further, the governor said; “If the APC bad losers in Ekiti State are still
making noise over an election they lost in all the 16 Local Councils in the
State two years ago, Nigerians should ask questions as to whether it was
through the use of security agents that the PDP won the Presidential, National
Assembly and State House of Assembly elections last year.
“The IGP
should be mindful of the fact that as at today, dispute on the governorship
election has become functus officio because as a general rule, once a tribunal
has reached a final decision in respect to the matter that is before it in
accordance with its enabling statute, that decision cannot be revisited.
“The IGP
should also be reminded that the US Department of State and other International
Observers, which observed the election, praised security forces (including the
police) for collaborating effectively in providing a safe environment free of
major incidents.
“Therefore,
these petitions, which are obviously meant to orchestrate the harassment and
intimidation of PDP members in Ekiti State and notable functionaries of the government
should be ignored by the IGP while the police boss focusses on the greater task
of resolving the security problems being faced by the country.”
The election was rigged and Fayose knows it. Nobody is fooled by the okada ride and market visits any more
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