Speaking at a press conference in
Abuja, Mr. Fani-Kayode said his team
had listened to and reviewed the
recording and that it came to the
conclusion that the opposition All
Progressives Congress turned fact on
its head by claiming that Governor
Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state; former
Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu
Obanikoro; and the Minister of Police
Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, who featured in
the recording, planned how to rig the
election. Contrary to President Goodluck
Jonathan’s dismissal of the Ekiti rigging
audio recording as a fabrication that is
not worth his attention, the
spokesperson for his campaign, Femi
Fani-Kayode has admitted that the tape
is genuine but that the characters
involved in the meeting captured in the
recording were not discussing how to rig
the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti
state.
Speaking at a press conference in
Abuja, Mr. Fani-Kayode said his team
had listened to and reviewed the
recording and that it came to the
conclusion that the opposition All
Progressives Congress turned fact on
its head by claiming that Governor
Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state; former
Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu
Obanikoro; and the Minister of Police
Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, who featured in
the recording, planned how to rig the
election.
“We have listened to the audio clip and
we make bold to say that the discussion
that took place in it did not make any
mention of any form of rigging in the
Ekiti state governorship election and
neither did it contain any evidence of
any conspiracy to rig,” he said.
Mr. Fani-Kayode also said rather than
attempting to orchestrate rigging, what
the audio clip clearly revealed was
Governor Fayose expressing concerns
that a military commander was not
acting on information about illegal
movement of weapons into certain parts
of the state.
“The Governor and others were
apparently worried that safety of the
voters and INEC officials could be
compromised if security measures were
not strictly enforced,” he said.
Mr Fani-Kayode’s admission of the
authenticity of the tape is another
chapter in the series of contradictory
responses from the ruling party and
those at the centre of the vote rigging
plot.
In an interview with the Wall Street
Journal, last Friday, Mr. Jonathan said
he would not investigate the
authenticity of the audio recording
because it was a “fabrication.”
“It’s all fabrications. Why should I
investigate things that are not real?” he
asked.
Using forensic analysis that compared
the voices in the recording with public
record samples of the individuals in the
recording, Guardian Consulting, The
New York-based security firm, that
helped authenticate the recordings,
confirmed that the tape was genuine.
“The voices from the recording were
subjected to a Forensic Voice
Frequency Comparison against known
samples and were found to match to a
98 per cent degree of certainty,” the
firm said.
Mr Jonathan’s dismissal of the tape as a
fabrication came after Mr Obanikoro
denied taking part in the meeting and
threatened to sue PREMIUM TIMES
and Sahara Reporters for their vigorous
reporting on the matter.
Mr. Adesiyan confessed that the
recording was genuine but that it was
more of an altercation between Mr.
Fayose and Mr. Momoh after the former
accused the later of favouring the then
governor of the state, Kayode Fayemi.
“Fayose accused the General who
supervised the Ekiti election of taking
bribe from Fayemi and APC, that was
two days before the election. They
called me because they said the General
disarmed policemen and I told him to
allow the policemen to do their job,” he
told the Sunday Punch newspaper.
After initially claiming his voice was
manipulated using speech software such
as Natural Voices, Mr. Fayose later
admitted during a political event in Ekiti
that it was his voice that was captured
in the tape but claimed he was rebuking
Mr. Momoh for favouring the APC.
“If you listen to the tape about military
rigging in Ekiti. Listen to the tape you
will see that I was the one accusing the
army of compromise. Listen, take time
to listen. But they would come back with
propaganda and saying it all as if the
whole world of propaganda belongs to
them,” he said.
Counter Allegation
While challenging the APC to do a
critical content analysis of the
discussions in the audio clip, Mr. Fani-
Kayode said it was the APC that rigged
the governorship election in Osun state.
“During the course of those elections,
some of their agents gathered in secret
locations where they thumb-printed
ballot papers in favor of their
governorship candidate, Ogbeni Rauf
Aregbesola,” he said.
Mr. Fani Kayode also played a video tape
he claimed proved the APC rigged the
election in Osun state.
“It is ironic that instead of purging
itself of its own insatiable appetite for
rigging and cheating, the APC, through
its Presidential candidate, General
Muhammadu Buhari, chose to call a
press conference in which he alleged
that our leaders were ordering soldiers
to rig in Ekiti state.
“This is a clear case of the pot calling
the kettle black,” he said.
APC, Buhari calling for violence At his
press conference, Mr. Fani-Kayode also
accused the APC and its presidential
candidate of veiled attempts to
instigate violence in the country, while
also undermining the nation’s armed
forces.
“It is now very clear to us that the APC
is determined to cause security
breaches in the next few weeks. This
has been confirmed by their vigorous
campaign of calumny against the military
and their consistent demand that
soldiers must not be deployed for
security surveillance at the polling
booths in the forthcoming elections,” he
said.
Mr. Fani-Kayode also alleged what he
termed subtle threat of violence by Mr.
Buhari at an APC leadership meeting in
Abuja on Tuesday.
“General Buhari said that the patience
of the APC and its leaders were on test.
One wonders what he means by that and
what he and his supporters intend to do
once that patience runs out.
“In an AFP news report of Friday,
February 6, 2015, he was asked if he
would accept the outcome of the
presidential election no matter how
unfavourable. Listen to his answer: “I
am not going to lose; so I won’t answer
that question.”
“Again, only yesterday, Wednesday,
February 18, 2015, in an interview on
ARISE Television, General Buhari was
asked what his reaction would be if he
loses the election. His answer was: “We
shall see.”
“As far as we are concerned, these are
ominous and subtle threats to unleash
violence on the Nigerian people and all
those that he perceives are his enemies
in the event of his losing the election,”
he said.
Mr. Fani-Kayode said Mr. Buhari has
succeeded in inflaming the destructive
passion of his supporters in the
northern part of the country on many
occasions in the past.
“We recall his unacceptable remarks on
May 15, 2012 when he said “if what
happened in 2011 should happen again in
2015, the dog and the baboon would be
soaked in blood”.
“We witnessed the orgy of violence
that they unleashed shortly after the
announcement of the results of the
2011 presidential election, which the
Sheik Lemu Committee, in its report to
the Federal Government, said was
caused by Buhari’s inflammatory
statements.
“We recall with sadness the massacre
of some of our vibrant youth corps
members who participated in the 2011
election as INEC’s ad-hoc staff in
Bauchi State.
“We are concerned that the same thing
may happen again given General Buhari’s
divisive and inciting comments coupled
with the APC’s violent disposition,” Mr.
Fani-Kayode said.
He said the attempt by the APC to
discredit the use of soldiers by
promoting some “misleading audio
footage of the so-called rigging during
the Ekiti governorship election, in which
one Captain Sagir Koli was the dramatis
personae, is childish and absurd”.
He said the Nigerian Government
deployed soldiers in the Anambra, Edo,
Ondo, Ekiti and Osun gubernatorial
elections and all those elections were
devoid of violence.
“Remarkably, the APC won in Edo and
Osun; APGA won in Anambra, Labour
Party won in Ondo while PDP won only in
Ekiti State,” he said.
He added that the basis on which the
APC is agitating for the exclusion of
soldiers from the election by sponsoring
court cases is patently dubious and
untenable.
“The reason that the APC and its
leaders do not want soldiers deployed is
to be able to intimidate voters and
unleash violence on the polity once they
lose the elections.
“They know that it would be far more
difficult for them to do that when
soldiers are on the streets.
“With these dishonourable tactics and
desperate acts by the APC, we are the
ones who should be worried and who
should be complaining but, unlike Buhari
and the APC, our patience is not running
out because we are committed to a
peaceful election and we completely
reject the option of violence,” he said. www.saharareporters.com/2015/02/20/fani-kayode-counters-president-jonathan-says-ekiti-rigging-tape-authentic

Gbam! Denial by the master and acceptance by the piper. Lets see what the presidency has to say this time around.

[b]FAMOUS SAYINGS OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN

1. CNN has said our Economy is growing. The best Economists are at the World Bank. Now you have all these Nigerian Economists talking nonsense. Do they know better than CNN or World Bank?

2. Nigeria is not poor. Come and see the amount of private jets Nigerians parked at Kenya Airport when we went to Nairobi for Conference. Kenyans were just looking at us with envy. How can you say Nigerians are poor

3. Nigerians need jobs. Vote for me and i will create Unemployment

4'. We are giving special Scholarships to our First Class Graduates.......in ten years time, they are going to take us to the Moon

5. How can you jus say $20 billion is missing. If that kind of money is missing, the Americans will know. They know everything

6.Corruption is not stealing. If you put yam where a goat is, the goat will eat the yam.

7. If you go to Lagos and shout "ole ole" they will stone you well well. But if you shout "corruption", people will jus be looking at you.

8.Why should i declare my assets? I don't give a damn!

9.People are just raising false alarm. How can 200 children go missing jus like that? It is our enemies trying to cause confusion. But we are investigating the matter

10. We are going to rebuild the Chibook school. And we are going to build high fences round the school to protect them next time . Yes Yes.

11. People keep saying,why don't we go to Chibook, why don't we go to Chibook. Aaah, we can't go to Chibook jus like that. The Boko Haram people will fire at us.

12. This Abuja bombing is not by MEND. We know it is by Boko Haram. They are everywhere. Boko Haram is even in my Government.

13. Boko Haram are our siblings. You can't set the Army to go and wipe out your family

14. Mend tried to kill me. They came to bomb me in Abuja. That is why we jailed Henry Okah in South Africa

15. I did not plan the Election postponement. Even my Service Chiefs did not consult me.

16. If i knew Election was going to be postponed, why will i waste my time and Federal Government money to go and campaign in Bayelsa.

17. I am the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. You don't expect me to go and be fighting in Sambisa forest. People jus talk anyhow.

18. We are going to buy Guns and give good Pensions to our Brave Soldiers, so that when they are killed, their families will not suffer

19. Some people jus call themselves Statesman for nothing. They jump about and talk like motor park touts.

20. After God and my Parents, the third person i thank most for my life is President Olusegun Obasanjo.

21. I want to apologise to the people of Rivers State for not bringing any Projects here. It is because i don't want people to say i am doing favouritism. Vote for me and in the next 4 years you will see my hand

22. I am the sitting President. If there is any trouble, it is me that the United Nations Secretary General calls. Everything is on my head.

23. May 29 Swearing in Day is sacrosanct. Definitely, a new President will be sworn in on that day.
..........and so on and so forth.

[/b]

Even his 'paid parrot' calls him clueless! Then what stops me that doesn't benefit from calling him names?!

I dont get this fanny guy o. One moment he is behind gej tge next he is shouting sai buhari

A house divided against itself cannot stand...

HUNGRY MAN FFK

That was how the President and Abati contradicted themselves during the president's wife's medical trip saga. Even the president's wife herself contradicted what Abati said by admitting she "died and resurrected while in the hospital". . Abati had denied she never went to any hospital but rather went to take a "moment's rest in Germany due to fatigue from the elections brouhaha of 2011"

Believe whatever comes out of the presidency at your own peril.

ZACHIE:
[b]FAMOUS SAYINGS OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN

1. CNN has said our Economy is growing. The best Economists are at the World Bank. Now you have all these Nigerian Economists talking nonsense. Do they know better than CNN or World Bank?

2. Nigeria is not poor. Come and see the amount of private jets Nigerians parked at Kenya Airport when we went to Nairobi for Conference. Kenyans were just looking at us with envy. How can you say Nigerians are poor

3. Nigerians need jobs. Vote for me and i will create Unemployment

4'. We are giving special Scholarships to our First Class Graduates.......in ten years time, they are going to take us to the Moon

5. How can you jus say $20 billion is missing. If that kind of money is missing, the Americans will know. They know everything

6.Corruption is not stealing. If you put yam where a goat is, the goat will eat the yam.

7. If you go to Lagos and shout "ole ole" they will stone you well well. But if you shout "corruption", people will jus be looking at you.

8.Why should i declare my assets? I don't give a damn!

9.People are just raising false alarm. How can 200 children go missing jus like that? It is our enemies trying to cause confusion. But we are investigating the matter

10. We are going to rebuild the Chibook school. And we are going to build high fences round the school to protect them next time . Yes Yes.

11. People keep saying,why don't we go to Chibook, why don't we go to Chibook. Aaah, we can't go to Chibook jus like that. The Boko Haram people will fire at us.

12. This Abuja bombing is not by MEND. We know it is by Boko Haram. They are everywhere. Boko Haram is even in my Government.

13. Boko Haram are our siblings. You can't set the Army to go and wipe out your family

14. Mend tried to kill me. They came to bomb me in Abuja. That is why we jailed Henry Okah in South Africa

15. I did not plan the Election postponement. Even my Service Chiefs did not consult me.

16. If i knew Election was going to be postponed, why will i waste my time and Federal Government money to go and campaign in Bayelsa.

17. I am the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. You don't expect me to go and be fighting in Sambisa forest. People jus talk anyhow.

18. We are going to buy Guns and give good Pensions to our Brave Soldiers, so that when they are killed, their families will not suffer

19. Some people jus call themselves Statesman for nothing. They jump about and talk like motor park touts.

20. After God and my Parents, the third person i thank most for my life is President Olusegun Obasanjo.

21. I want to apologise to the people of Rivers State for not bringing any Projects here. It is because i don't want people to say i am doing favouritism. Vote for me and in the next 4 years you will see my hand

22. I am the sitting President. If there is any trouble, it is me that the United Nations Secretary General calls. Everything is on my head.

23. May 29 Swearing in Day is sacrosanct. Definitely, a new President will be sworn in on that day.
..........and so on and so forth.

[/b]

REALLY, did Jonathan make all these statements and some people still want us to vote for him?

fools contradicting themselves. The problem is no one will probe the video clips.

Jonathan is damn clueless!

Confusion..... in living colours.

That tape Should be listened to along with the Koli/Sowore interview.

and so.......?

danot1030:
REALLY, did Jonathan make all these statements and some people still want us to vote for him?

He even forgot to add that in which Jonathan said in a news conference in Paris that he would build taller fences around the schools in Chibok to secure students from incessant attacks from terrorists.

@ 1toRtoiSe1. Edit your post to make it more legible. As it stands, everything appears too damn jumbled up.

Thanks.

The earlier Gej shuts down sahara reporters the better


Gej till 2019

and the source is Saharareporters.
Well, trust FFK wit a response.
GEJ till...........

Pdp, still unable to coordinate their lies!

#change
#GMB
#APC

This is what is called politics...it is supposed to be a sincere thing not all about denial and lying

Stick and carrot approach to politics huh

Somebody should pls ask dis hungry Ashawo man if the Constitution supports using Soldiers for election. We know he is hungry, but we also know he is educated.
As for Jona, let his cluelessness continue. He keep getting bursted by his supporters still.

Donphillopus:
The earlier Gej shuts down sahara reporters the better


Gej till 2019

In your dream!

PDP should @least try to be organized in their lies. I don't fancy this amateurish way they are handling these lies. It will only get messier as they keep denying.

GMB/PYO is our choice for the next four years.

“We have listened to the audio clip and
we make bold to say that the discussion
that took place in it did not make any
mention of any form of rigging in the
Ekiti state governorship election and
neither did it contain any evidence of
any conspiracy to rig,” he said.
Mr. Fani-Kayode also said rather than
attempting to orchestrate rigging, what
the audio clip clearly revealed was
Governor Fayose expressing concerns
that a military commander was not
acting on information about illegal
movement of weapons into certain parts
of the state.

counter response;

There was no mention of the word 'rig' or 'rigging' neither was it mention in the alledged tape that 'welcome to the rigging meeting' or 'Guys our meeting here is purely to rig' so anything outside these ''primary-indicting-statements-not-mentioned-as-stated-in-the-quotes-here'' amounts to 'forcefull assertion and open the alledged 'audio meeting' to all sorts of forcefull assertions as 'imposition or fabrications' which amounts to nothing because the alledged audio lacked important substances that can stand court trials, it is filled with many holes, the army man has done a shabby job.

Mr Fani-Kayode’s admission of the
authenticity of the tape is another
chapter in the series of contradictory
responses from the ruling party and
those at the centre of the vote rigging
plot.
In an interview with the Wall Street
Journal, last Friday, Mr. Jonathan said
he would not investigate the
authenticity of the audio recording
because it was a “fabrication.”
“It’s all fabrications. Why should I
investigate things that are not real?” he
asked.

https://www.nairaland.com/2155260/ministerial-nominee-obanikoro-confesses-he

Prior to admitting his involvement to the Senators, the former minister met with President Jonathan to discuss the tape and his role. A presidency source said Obanikoro told President Jonathan he was present at the meeting but that a part of the audio-recording was “doctored”. 

counter response;

[size=14pt]part of the audio-recording was “doctored”[/size] this statement is yet to be denied till now, especially where Tinubu's name was alledgedly mentioned, sahara reporters 'refused to translate that part' and it was edited out fast the full conversation that actually culminate the mention of Tinubu in that alledged tape
The alledged tape was Altered, ......[size=14pt]Alteration on result certificate...renders same(certificate) invalid![/size] the accused have the right to deny an invalid tape; as fabrication and unreal because of its 'invalid status'

ZACHIE:
[b]FAMOUS SAYINGS OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN

1. CNN has said our Economy is growing. The best Economists are at the World Bank. Now you have all these Nigerian Economists talking nonsense. Do they know better than CNN or World Bank?

2. Nigeria is not poor. Come and see the amount of private jets Nigerians parked at Kenya Airport when we went to Nairobi for Conference. Kenyans were just looking at us with envy. How can you say Nigerians are poor

3. Nigerians need jobs. Vote for me and i will create Unemployment

4'. We are giving special Scholarships to our First Class Graduates.......in ten years time, they are going to take us to the Moon

5. How can you jus say $20 billion is missing. If that kind of money is missing, the Americans will know. They know everything

6.Corruption is not stealing. If you put yam where a goat is, the goat will eat the yam.

7. If you go to Lagos and shout "ole ole" they will stone you well well. But if you shout "corruption", people will jus be looking at you.

8.Why should i declare my assets? I don't give a damn!

9.People are just raising false alarm. How can 200 children go missing jus like that? It is our enemies trying to cause confusion. But we are investigating the matter

10. We are going to rebuild the Chibook school. And we are going to build high fences round the school to protect them next time . Yes Yes.

11. People keep saying,why don't we go to Chibook, why don't we go to Chibook. Aaah, we can't go to Chibook jus like that. The Boko Haram people will fire at us.

12. This Abuja bombing is not by MEND. We know it is by Boko Haram. They are everywhere. Boko Haram is even in my Government.

13. Boko Haram are our siblings. You can't set the Army to go and wipe out your family

14. Mend tried to kill me. They came to bomb me in Abuja. That is why we jailed Henry Okah in South Africa

15. I did not plan the Election postponement. Even my Service Chiefs did not consult me.

16. If i knew Election was going to be postponed, why will i waste my time and Federal Government money to go and campaign in Bayelsa.

17. I am the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. You don't expect me to go and be fighting in Sambisa forest. People jus talk anyhow.

18. We are going to buy Guns and give good Pensions to our Brave Soldiers, so that when they are killed, their families will not suffer

19. Some people jus call themselves Statesman for nothing. They jump about and talk like motor park touts.

20. After God and my Parents, the third person i thank most for my life is President Olusegun Obasanjo.

21. I want to apologise to the people of Rivers State for not bringing any Projects here. It is because i don't want people to say i am doing favouritism. Vote for me and in the next 4 years you will see my hand

22. I am the sitting President. If there is any trouble, it is me that the United Nations Secretary General calls. Everything is on my head.

23. May 29 Swearing in Day is sacrosanct. Definitely, a new President will be sworn in on that day.
..........and so on and so forth.

[/b]

Cluelessness on point and at its peak.. Madman with a lighter at fuel station