Allegedly according to Sahara Report there is a secret
recording of how a Nigerian minister colluded with an army Brigadier General to
rig the 2014 governorship election for Ayodele Fayose in Ekiti State.
The audio recordings depict
the meeting as being attended by the eventual “winner” of the election,
Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti; Senator Iyiola Omisore; a man identified as
Honorable Abdulkareem; the Minister for Police Affairs Caleb Olubolade; and
Senator Musiliu Obanikoro who was at the time the Minister of State for
Defence. Mr. Chris Uba came to Ekiti with huge stash cash and soldiers from the
East to carry out the assignment.
SaharaReporters received
credible intelligence that President Goodluck Jonathan had instructed the Chief
of Defense Staff, Alex Badeh, to use the army in arresting and intimidating
opposition politicians before and during the election. The audio recording
provides exact details of the plot, with the collaborators almost degenerating
into physical combat.
The 37-minute recording
details the conversation between these men as they bribed Brigadier General
Momoh with a promotion for his assistance in carrying out election fraud in
Ekiti. In it, Obanikoro is clearly heard informing the group of men, “[I] am
not here for a tea party, am on special assignment by the President.”
The meeting was held at the
Spotless Hotel in Ekiti.
The audio recordings were
analyzed and authenticated by Guardian Consulting, an independent US-based
security consulting company.
During the conversation
strategies to intimidate voters and perform electoral fraud
were discussed in detail.
The key points are as follows:
The use of the Nigerian
military by the PDP to assist in electoral manipulation. This includes;
* The creation of a list of
APC members to arrest
* The use of stickers to be
used to identify persons not to be harassed and detained by the army
* Deployment of “Special
Team” including a “Strike Force”
* The Minister of state of
Defence bribing military personnel with the offer of promotion if he carries
out the “strategy”
* A gubernatorial candidate
admitting to electoral fraud by copying voting material provided by the INEC
* The reprimanding of
military personnel for mistakenly detaining PDP members engaged in electoral
fraud
* The Minister explicitly
states he was instructed by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to
execute this plan.
* The Candidate Fayose
explicitly states he was given assurances by the Chief of Army staff to execute
this plan.
Transcripts of Personality
voices are as follows
Musiliu Obanikoro
“Am not here for tea party,
am on a special assignment by the President.”
“Then that Daramola (APC
Fayemi Campaign Manager) I want him picked up in the morning!”
“Look here, you can’t get
promotion without me sitting on top of your military council. If I am a happy
man tomorrow night, the sky is your limit”
Ayo Fayose
“We agreed in Abuja on the
modalities to work, we agreed on a sticker, that any vehicle
you see that sticker, you
allow that sticker. That sticker is on those vehicles his own was
sent to him, mine was sent
to me. The one by SSS was given to me to give to them there is
no vehicle that left this
place without that sticker. The people you just dis-armed had that
sticker clear and clean.”
“Today they went to “efon”
they carry all the ….. Where we are supposing to be collating,
the thing INEC gave to us,
soft copies we now printed and everything, because they see
INEC thing on top of it,
why is my contact man not with them, i said my contact man would be sitting in
the check point permanently. I convince this man to leave this people,
they were said to sit in
the sun. They packed all the computers, it’s took me more than 2
hours to get this man to
release this people.”
“Chief of army staff called
me he told me, you are in safe hands, he [General Momoh]
would perform and if you
have any issues, call me. He told me that i have made it clear to
him that I am Jonathan for
this election.”
Meanwhile, Fayose has been
a staunch supporter of Goodluck Jonathan and very critical of his major
opponent Muhammadu Buhari of the APC. For instance, Governor Fayose published a
series of advertisements criticising Buhari‘s age and his ill-fated spell as
military head of state of Nigeria.
Operatives of the National
Drug Law Enforcement Agency have recovered 19.8 kilogrammes of dried weeds,
said to be cannabis sativa, from two friends; 30-year-old Sandra Ebere and
Maureen Obidike, 33.
Punch Metro gathered that
the suspects were arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos
State during the screening of passengers on an Etihad flight en route to Dubai,
United Arab Emirate.
It was learnt that the drug
was packaged into about 80 parcels and concealed inside foodstuffs and bottles.Our
correspondent gathered that Ebere, who studied Economics, told investigators
that her travel agent in Dubai directed her to smuggle the drug as a
prerequisite for a free visa.
She said,
“I used to export
foodstuffs to Dubai since 2012. Each time I go to Dubai, I stay for two months
and come back because I have no permanent visa. I came to Nigeria since
December 2014 to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays at home. While I was
preparing to go back, my travel agent in Dubai called me that somebody will
give me a parcel to bring to him. He promised me that if I could bring it to
him he will prepare my next visa for free. That was how I agreed to take it.”
Obidike, in her statement,
described her arrest as the backlash of keeping a deceitful friend.
“My friend did not tell me
that she had drugs in the luggage before she checked in in my name. She told me
that it was foodstuffs, but it turned out to be cannabis. I feel very sad,” she
said.
The NDLEA Commander at the
Lagos Airport, Mr. Umar Hamza, said the case was under investigation.
He said,
“We found 78 parcels of
dried weeds that tested positive for cannabis sativa weighing 19.8kg inside
foodstuffs and bottles of local alcoholic beverage. The case is under
investigation and the suspects are assisting our team of investigators.”
The agency’s Chairman, Mr.
Ahmadu Giade, called on travellers to be sure of the content of their luggage
before travelling.
“Members of the public must
take necessary preventive measures to ensure that they have no drugs in their
luggage. They must also not collect luggage from people when travelling. This
is very important because such luggage may contain drugs,” Giade said.
Both APC and Pdp must stop playing dirty.
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