Posted by irohinodua ⋅ July 11, 2014

…….Panel may be set up next week
By Akinwunmi Ojuolape

Ayo-Fayose1-FayemiOverwhelmed with fresh post-election evidence pointing to alleged grievous manipulation of the electoral process, the All Progressive Congress, (APC) has filed an objection to the result of the June 21 election which saw the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) candidate, Mr Ayo Fayose winning in the heavily militarized poll.

In few days, the Election Petition Tribunal will be constituted by the judiciary to examine the claim of the APC in an election which outcome embarrassed the local and international communities.

The APC, according to a top source is challenging the results in the 16 local governments won by the PDP. The Independent Electoral Commission, (INEC) had declared Mr Fayose, a former governor who was impeached in 2006, as polling 203,000 votes as against Dr Fayemi’s 120,000 votes. The result was first greeted with shock, then disbelief and now doubt.

Following the outcome of the election, many observers had expressed bitterness and sometimes anger against the Ekiti electorate blaming them for voting in a man whose legacies speak of terror and savage guzzling of state resources. But now, following weeks of reflections and gathering of fresh evidence, there is a third theory: that the election was a product of high brow fraud, difficult, but not impossible to prove.
Though Dr Fayemi had earlier accepted the result, he however left the conditional cliché, “if this is the will of the people.” Sources told IrohinOodua that the APC regained its tempo following fresh evidence indicating that the election result was a product of high-pitched state sponsored manipulation and conspiracy against the people of Ekiti State.

Pointers to this were the complaints by thousands of shocked voters who claimed that during the voting exercise, ballot papers were of different make while many voters noticed that the ink disappeared minutes after thumb printing on the ballot papers, suggesting that photo chromic papers may have been used to manipulate the will of the people in what may turn out to be one of the world’s most heinous crimes. Days after the election too, the bulk of the civil servants and teachers in the state were said to have been thrown into a mourning, instead of the jubilation expected if indeed their preferred candidate was the winner of the election.

One source said Governor Fayemi has been receiving text messages “in the average of 50 per second” mostly from civil servants expressing disgust at the poll’s outcome. A Permanent Secretary, (PS) in the state told IrohinOodua that the election was an attempt to “criminalise Ekiti people” through a fraudulent manipulation of the people’s will. He said he saw many civil servants “cry their eyes out” following the declaration of Mr Fayose as the winner.
In what appears a reflection of the mood of many people in Ekiti state, the wife of the Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi said the Ekiti election was manipulated in favour of the PDP.

She said “in due course, the full and real story of how the Ekiti elections of June 21 were manipulated from source will be revealed. There are many implications of Ekiti people having voted the way the supposedly did.”
Yesterday, the APC Deputy National Chairman, Mr Segun Oni let an airpiece of the cat out of the bag when he said his party would challenge the outcome of the election.

“The result of the election in Ekiti State did not reflect the wish of the people of the state and we are going to court to challenge this in due course. What happened in Ekiti State was a new dimension to election rigging in Nigeria. We are, therefore, ready to challenge the Ekiti election in court.”
http://irohinodua./2014/07/11/june-21-election-apc-seeks-justice-at-tribunal-2/

The outcome of the tribunal will be thesame as earlier decleared by inec

The write-up is fraught with sentiments and depicts the cry of a frustrated man.

Though I wasn't a witness nor part of the election, there were no reported cases of irregularities.

the chrome (google) paper is a new dimensions that can also be test run (may be in Osun) to prove its viability or otherwise.

Overwhelmed with fresh post-election evidence pointing to alleged grievous manipulation of the electoral process

They are always overwhelmed. Ndi Ara

so they want Fayemi to go back to his vomit?..APC is really evil because they wanna destroy this man and his reputation

These people are shameless, they forgot so soon APC didn't win any local govt in Ekiti.

The embarrassment they're causing Fayemi is immense. Fayemi wants to close this chapter instead of being reminded he almost forfeited his deposit at the election. Fayemi won no local govt, if it was Europe he would automatically forfeit his deposit, complete failure.

APC please stop embarrassing Fayemi.

The judiciary is on strike.