I find it unbelievable that some people on nairaland are pdp sympathisers.A.C. Obviously won ekiti.i'm just praying they dont declare false result.

Obviously they would. The woman resigned because she didnt want to announce doctored results. Now the coast is clear for them, but they are playing with fire.

Doctored results? I suspect that even if they were not doctored, we would somehow claim they are.

@Poster, so what if there are PDP supporters out there? Anywho, I have asked this question so many times now. Is there proof to support all the claims made so far of elections being rigged? I mean we seem to jump to conclude that the elections were rigged if our candidate of choice were to loose, but knowing now that there are actually people who support the other side, do you still believe this?

@ Kobojunkie

Please read this:


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Ekiti INEC Boss Quits, Tenders Letter To Presidency
April 28, 2009 16:18 (22 minutes ago), 22 views

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of INEC in Ekiti state, Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo, this morning, stunned the presidency and the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission when she tendered her letter of resignation in Abuja.

Mrs. Adebayo, who the INEC boss, Maurice Iwu, erroneously claimed yesterday, was ill, surfaced in Abuja, today, from Abeokuta, her hometown, hale and hearty. According to sources, her journey to Abuja followed an invitation by the director-general of the State Security Service, SSS. Her resignation may have been because she decided not to succumb to pressure to announce the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party as the winner of the weekend re-run election in Ekiti state.

A copy of her letter, according to sources, has been dispatched to Maurice Iwu. Iwu told a news conference yesterday, in Abuja, that one of the reasons the winner of the Ekiti state governorship re-run has not been declared was because Mrs. Ayoka broke down on Sunday as a result of the hectic activities involving the re-run election held last Saturday. The other reason Iwu gave for the stalemate was that the election in Oye must be conducted and the result known before a winner would be announced.

However, family sources of Mrs. Adebayo’s told P.M. NEWS, this morning, that the woman INEC commissioner is hale and hearty. The sources debunked the official line by INEC headquarters that the woman took ill on Sunday. ‘’Her health is sound. Since Sunday she has been talking to her family members to explain the situation in Ekiti. Mama is not ill at all. She is okay.’’

Indeed, to put a lie to the claim by the INEC chairman that Mrs. Adebayo was indisposed, the woman left for Abuja, today, to answer a summon by the State Security Service. P.M NEWS can confirm that she was sighted in Abuja today. She was summoned to give her report on the Ekiti election imbroglio. Said sources close to her: ‘’the woman intends to tender all the documents in her possession about the election and give her official report. So far, the woman remains adamant that the election in Ido-Osi and Oye are inconclusive. She also does not intend to cave in to pressure that she announces the PDP candidate, Engr. Segun Oni, as the winner of the election based on the falsified result from Ido-Osi.’’.

P.M. NEWS also learnt that Mrs. Adebayo will see her boss, Maurice Iwu, to tender the same documents. According to family sources, Mrs. Adebayo maintains that, as a christian, she will not indulge in anything that will soil the family name. ‘’She will rather resign than succumb to pressure’’, said the sources. Mrs. Adebayo disappeared from the INEC radar, Sunday, to safeguard herself, following pressure being piled on her to announce fake results in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Segun Oni.

The 74-year-old Adebayo left Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, a day after the election, following disputes over the results of the elections in Ido-Osi and the twice-postponed election in Oye, marred by violence unleashed by thugs suspected to be loyal to the Peoples Democratic Party. Ido-Osi is the hometown of Oni. In spite of the controversy surrounding the outcome of the Ido-Osi poll, Iwu, yesterday, gave a hint that INEC has endorsed the result when he announced that only the Oye election was outstanding, adding that election had been concluded successfully in nine out of the 10 local government areas where the re-run was to take place.

“In all, election was concluded in nine out of the 10 local government areas and in 61 wards of the 63 registration areas. Results from the polling centres were signed off by agents of the political parties as required by law,” Iwu said, at yesterday’s news conference in Abuja. No date has been fixed for the rescheduled election in Oye even as president Umaru Yar’Adua has ordered Iwu to set a definite date for the election.

Yar’Adua met with his deputy, Jonathan Goodluck; the president of the Senate, David Mark and the speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, yesterday, over the stalemate in Ekiti. Instructively, all the people at the meeting are PDP members, who actively campaigned for Segun Oni. Mrs. Adebayo’s resignation may have disrupted the game plan of the PDP over the heavily militarised election in Ekiti state and their determination to claim the trophy ‘’by all means’’ possible. Meanwhile, fresh demonstrations broke out in Ado-Ekiti this afternoon. It was carried out by members of the Artisans Association of Nigeria. They want the result of the election released immedaitely.

http://thepmnews.com/2009/04/28/ekiti-inec-boss-quits-tenders-letter-to-presidency

nope that is not good enough proof to Kobo.

She will ask you to produce a Presidency MEMO stating the election was rigged.

She can be so annoyingly out of touch, ask her whether elections conducted in columbus Ohio take 3 days before the results are released.

For all her brilliance her views are always distorted by INTRESTS.

Kobojunkie:

Doctored results? I suspect that even if they were not doctored, we would somehow claim they are.

@Poster, so what if there are PDP supporters out there? Anywho, I have asked this question so many times now. Is there proof to support all the claims made so far of elections being rigged? I mean we seem to jump to conclude that the elections were rigged if our candidate of choice were to loose, but knowing now that there are actually people who support the other side, do you still believe this?

I speak for Ekiti and not the rest of Nigeria -  It is clearly known fact that the people choice in Ekiti is Kayode fayemi.

That News brings little hope.

@desgiezd, there is nothing new in that report. We do not know the very reason why she chose to step down. In fact, she could have easily announced the real results, and then stepped down. So again, the media in not helping us here as they are not giving us detailed information on what really happened.


@Blacksta, I can claim to speak for the people of my own town but even I know that there are those in that same group that do not stand where I do on so many issues, so your word does not count for much in this case. If Ekiti folks were really united, this election would have gone on more smoothly than it has so far. Should I also take the word of someone else from the opposing party when he comes in to claim he is speaking for the same group of people? The poster tells you here that there are PDP folks out there as well so to assume all Ekiti people who voted legally did so for AC is quite prepostrous, considering we are speaking of Nigerians at the end of the day.

you dont know the real reason she stepped down

Maybe you will like to tell us what business she has being invited by SSS

or why the INEC chief claimed she was ill when she is not

Or why another REC from another state was drafted to release the result on her behalf.

Hellloooooooooooooo  . . . . . wake up!!!!!! the woman is under pressure to announce a doctored result that had been magnified by 12,000 votes and did not have the signatures of electoral commissioners on ground.

You want citizens to take responsibility and somebody is putting their life on the line for the sake of the truth and you sit in your corner and throw all sorts of arguments seeking proof.

http://thenewsng.com/cover-story/obasanjos-protege/2009/03



Obasanjo's Protege:



Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo, a 74-year-old widow and Independent National Electoral Commission’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti state, is to oversee the conduct of the governorship election re-run in the state. However, her more-than-just-friends relationship with former president Olusegun Obasanjo puts a question mark on her credibility


Mrs. Oluremi Obasanjo, first wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, still admires many of her estranged husband’s qualities. In her recently published biography, Bitter Sweet: My Life With Obasanjo, Oluremi lists such as humour, intelligence and attention to details among others. The same book bristles with Obasanjo’s less appealing sides: chronic inability to forgive, deceptiveness, notoriously explosive temper as well as out-and-out womanising.

Obasanjo’s relentless philandering riled Oluremi as much as it delighted her husband’s numerous mistresses, with whom she frequently fought. Just how she classifies Ayoka Adebayo, a 74-year-old widow and current Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Ekiti State, is unknown. On page 114 of her book, Oluremi recalls a near-explosive encounter with Mrs. Adebayo. The encounter was a passable imitation of a long-suffering woman meeting a woman she believed was sharing her man.

It was after Obasanjo was released from prison, where he was committed on spurious coup-plotting charges by the Sani Abacha regime. That was the first time she was meeting her husband after his release and, writes Oluremi: “He hugged me and you could see the joy in his eyes as his face lightened (sic) up on seeing me.” But the sudden rush of excitement evaporated the moment Oluremi saw Mrs. Adebayo, who was seated beside Obasanjo. Oluremi, a veteran of numerous physical clashes with her husband’s mistresses, ordered Mrs. Adebayo to vacate the seat. She resisted. Confrontation loomed. “As I was getting angry, Obasanjo stood up and moved to another seat to avoid a commotion,” writes Oluremi.But in an interview with this magazine, Mrs. Adebayo denied that anything was written about her in the book, which she claimed to have, and sees Oluremi as a sister. “I have the book you are talking about and I have read it. I also know that my picture is there. But it is the picture we took during my birthday. Nothing was said about me in the book,” she claimed somewhat inaccurately.

That was not the first meeting of the two women. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Adebayo’s late husband, Oluwole Adebayo, was Obasanjo’s cousin. Adebayo, an engineer and manager with West African Portland Cement, WAPCO, was killed by unknown gunmen in front of Owu Baptist Church, Abeokuta, in 1990. He was one of the two persons who witnessed the wedding between Oluremi and Obasanjo at Camberwell Street Registry, South East London, on 22 June, 1963.

Obasanjo and Mrs. Adebayo are said to be very close. However, it is not known whether the closeness began after her husband’s death or before. It is also unclear whether it was her husband’s reputation with women that pushed Oluremi close to confrontation with Mrs. Adebayo. The hint provided is about Dr. Onaolapo Soleye, a former finance minister, who is said to be Obasanjo’s school mate and friend. Soleye is a cousin to Mrs. Adebayo. The former minister, who hails from Owu as Obasanjo and Mrs. Adebayo, is not well regarded by Oluremi. Soleye was negatively portrayed in the book as a leech and home wrecker.

Mrs. Adebayo also denies that there is any other relationship with Obasanjo beyond the fact that they are both from Ogun State and hail from Owu. But on page 52 of In The Eyes Of Time, Obasanjo’s biography written by Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, Oluwole Adebayo is described as Obasanjo’s cousin, the same as in Oluremi’s book.Oluremi’s seething which seems not to have abated will likely arouse some degree of interest in the political events in Ekiti State, where Mrs. Adebayo, by virtue of her position will oversee the coming re-run of the governorship election in 10 of the 16 local councils in the state. These are Ido/Osi, Ikole, Oye (two wards), Ekiti West, East, South-West and Irepodun (10 wards). Others are Ise/Orun (eight wards), Ijero and Gboyin.

On 17 February, the Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, nullified the election of Engr. Segun Oni as governor, on account of substantial indifference to electoral regulations, ordering him to vacate his office and hand over to the Speaker of the state House of Assembly. Ruling on the suit brought before it by the Ekiti State Action Congress, AC, governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the appellate tribunal ordered a re-run within 90 days. It, however, held that results of the remaining six local governments should remain intact.

In the AC camp, which believed it was robbed of victory in the 2007 governorship election and at the First Ekiti State Election Petitions Tribunal, the verdict sparked jubilation. AC Chairman in the state, Chief Olajide Awe, said: “It’s a victory for all of us; this has again rekindled our hope in the judiciary. True election will always hold where agencies saddled with the organisation of election observe the rules and regulations for the conduct of such election.”

But for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to which Oni belongs, the verdict came as a shock. This was made more profound by a rumour that the Appeals Tribunal had upheld the election of Oni, who was in Ado-Ekiti on the day of the ruling. The rumour, which broke before the court made its final pronouncement, sent Oni and his supporters into frenzied partying, which was brought to an abrupt end by the re-run ordered. The shock later sparked grief, from which the party claims to have recovered and ready to trump its opponent in the re-rerun. PDP Vice Chairman, South-West, Mr. Tajudeen Oladipo, said the party took the judgment in good faith “because of our respect for the rule of law”.

He expressed optimism that the PDP would win the re-run election. “Oni is on leave for three months and will definitely come back,” he boasted. Similar comments were made by Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, PDP National Chairman, and Chief Richard Akinjide, a party chieftain. But those familiar with the conduct of the 2007 general elections in the state know better than to dismiss such boasts as that of a man proclaiming his virility after his starved wife had bolted. Observers reckon that the party’s boast was fuelled by a reliance on Obasanjo, whose closeness to Mrs. Adebayo, the resident electoral commissioner, is the closest thing to an ace. Rotimi Akeredolu, President, Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has already expressed fears about the credibility of the re-run election if INEC, as presently constituted, should conduct it. Akeredolu called on President Umar Yar’Adua to rekindle the people’s confidence in the nation’s electoral process by ensuring a free and fair election in the state.According to him, the ruling of the court has clearly shown that the elections were rigged, but that the court was handicapped to declare an outright winner.

Obasanjo has been severely jolted by the court ruling. Oni is one of his blue-eyed boys in the South-West. It was through the former president’s strong-arm tactics that he was handed the party’s gubernatorial ticket, having been trounced at the PDP primaries. After his inauguration, Obasanjo visited the state in what he described as a thank you tour and was received less than warmly by protesters. They were eventually overpowered by armed policemen. During the visit, the former president urged the people to accept Oni, so that Ekiti could develop and never return to what he called the “years of the locust and cankerworm”. He also boasted that the governor would spend his four-year tenure.

As yet, the former president’s wish has not been granted as a result of the court verdict. But he is treating the current development as a setback, not a disaster. And to avert a disaster, sources said, he has held a series of meetings with the trio of Oni, Mrs. Adebayo and Tunji Odeyemi, the acting governor. But the apprehension over Mrs. Adebayo predates the court verdict and the series of meetings she is alleged to have held with Obasanjo. On her resumption in January 2008, the AC raised the issue of her affinity with Obasanjo, who appointed Wole, her son, a presidential aide. The party also raised the issue of competence in electoral matters, especially since Ekiti State INEC office is her first such assignment. “Our demand is that INEC replaces Mrs. Adebayo with someone who is above board and not in any way tarred by the brush of dangerous liaisons with the PDP. In the event that this is not done, Mrs. Adebayo should be advised that we are watching her every move and expect she would be able to separate Ekiti INEC from the Siamese alliance with the PDP,” the AC said.

The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, is also worried about the outcome of the re-run election. In a recent statement issued by the group, it explained that the history of re-run elections makes a depressing read. “A re-run that was ordered is a reminder of Adamawa, Kogi, Cross River, Bayelsa states, where elections were nullified for one reason or the other. “Our experiences in all these places were that the re-runs were an opportunity for re-rig to return the beneficiaries of the previous malpractices that led to the nullifications,” the group said.

The ARG also pushed for the replacement of the INEC boss in the state, on account of her closeness to Obasanjo, who is described as the exponent of “do or die” elections. “Any poll conducted by her is tainted in advance on account of this allegation,” ARG added. In similar vein, the group demanded the redeployment of Mr. Chris Ola, Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, who has been accused of partisan conduct in the arrest and harassment of the AC candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, after the verdict. The same treatment is wanted for Mr. Etaifo Samuel Erale, Mobile Police Commander in the state.

Another demand of the ARG is that the voters’ roll for all the 64 wards must be displayed for verification before the re-run. Another group, The Positive Force, also lent its voice to the campaign against the Resident Electoral Commissioner’s capability to conduct a transparent election. Mrs Adebayo, the group alleged, has had a history of bias since she assumed duties in the state. In a statement signed by Bola Ogundana, its coordinator, the group said: “It is not a hidden fact that Mrs. Adebayo has a close affinity with the ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, to whom she owed her present appointment. President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ignoble role in the imposition of Mr. Segun Oni on Ekiti people is still fresh in our memory. It was President Obasanjo who employed state powers to install Segun Oni as Ekiti governor but his election has since been nullified.”

Certain actions of Mrs. Adebayo have continued to encourage the belief that she is Obasanjo’s protege. The Appeals Tribunal has already confirmed INEC’s complicity in the cancelled election. On assumption of office, an AC delegation visited the electoral commissioner and requested for her fairness and neutrality in the election petition between the AC and the PDP before the First Ekiti State Election Petitions Tribunal. The AC raised issues bordering on the partisanship of INEC officials. For instance, one of them, one Mr. Gbadegesin, who testified during the recount exercise and admitted that votes counted did not tally with that declared by INEC, recanted all he said before the tribunal in a press interview. The Electoral Commissioner promised to look into the matter, but she never did. The AC delegation also complained to her that INEC officials were in the habit of mutilating INEC’s EC8 form series to favour the PDP at the lower tribunal. The complaint attracted a promise of investigation, which is still being awaited. Again, at the lower tribunal, a wrong date was mistakenly written by INEC on one of the EC8 series and the tribunal asked AC counsel to effect the correction.

AC counsel had hoped the request of getting INEC to correct its mistake was a simple one, but it turned out to be otherwise. The mistake was never corrected. The Electoral Commissioner has also been accused of filling almost all the key positions in the office of INEC in the state from people from Ogun State. Those principal officers, it is alleged, are also candidates of Obasanjo. This magazine gathered that Mrs. Adebayo, a retired educationist, was a member of the board of the Nigerian Ports Authority during Obasanjo’s first term as president and later served on the board of the National Universities Commission. The mother of six was said to have owned a cold room, selling frozen fish, when she retired from service. In 2005, when she turned 70, Mrs. Adebayo had a big party at the Abeokuta Sports Club. The former president was one of the dignitaries at the event. He was said to have given Mrs. Adebayo a Peugeot 406 car as birthday gift. Through the former president’s influence, sources added, she was also appointed a collection agent for timber logging in Ogun State during the first term of Governor Gbenga Daniel.

But despite doubts about her credibility, the Electoral Commissioner said she is determined to conduct an election to be proud of. “We are going to have a free and fair election…We are aware that the entire world is watching and we are not ready to disappoint them. I will not disappoint anyone in the forthcoming re-run election,” she told trong>TheNEWS. In the meantime, the campaign for the re-run election has gathered momentum, with both parties expressing optimism and sniping at each other. The PDP flagged off its campaign last Monday at Okemesi-Ekiti in the Ekiti West Local Government Area of the state. AC will launch its own this week.

On Februray 17, 2009, a court of appeal had ordered a re-run of the Ekiti State governorship election in 10 local government areas. Based on the court's ruling, the ruling PDP's candidate, Segun Oni has 65,993 votes as against the 72,795 of Kayode Fayemi of the AC.

The court nullified 28,166 votes of the AC and 72,581 of the PDP. 225,778 voters are eligible to take part in the re-run election.

Kobojunkie

Up till now i had always respected your comments on issues, but your present stance here is shocking to me. It seems to me that you have stayed too long away from home that you are out of touch with present reality at home.

I do not think that it requires an I.Q of 200 to know the reason why the main electoral officer would disappear in the middle of an election without announcing announcing the result and then declared sick (which was denied by her family) only to appear in SSS's headquarters, then tenders her resignation soon after.

Did you not follow the last general elections in Nigeria? The PDP have a well oiled and perfected rigging system which involves
1 . Over inflating the electoral register by adding fictitious names
2. Reducing electoral materials to areas where their opponents are popular.
3. Over inflating the figures in their stronghold to just below the number of registered, and even sometimes above it.

Now most of the elections are taking place in the supposed strong hold of the PDP including the home town of Oni and Arise. And Ac is already ahead by over 11,000 votes. So the PDP needs to over inflate the votes from these areas to over 15,000 votes to be declared winner. So what they do is cause mayhem so actual voters (and journalists, election observers, other party agents, etc) would stay away, then they can ballot stuff in peace, all they need to perfect the rigging is an electoral officer to accept the result, and its deemed legal. It is just that this time she refused.

OH Boy!!! Now we really need to get the story from the horses mouth!! lol

wirinet:

Kobojunkie

Up till now i had always respected your comments on issues, but your present stance here is shocking to me. It seems to me that you have stayed too long away from home that you are out of touch with present reality at home.

I do not think that it requires an I.Q of 200 to know the reason why the main electoral officer would disappear in the middle of an election without announcing announcing the result and then declared sick (which was denied by her family) only to appear in SSS's headquarters, then tenders her resignation soon after.

Did you not follow the last general elections in Nigeria? The PDP have a well oiled and perfected rigging system which involves
1 . Over inflating the electoral register by adding fictitious names
2. Reducing electoral materials to areas where their opponents are popular.
3. Over inflating the figures in their stronghold to just below the number of registered, and even sometimes above it.

Now most of the elections are taking place in the supposed strong hold of the PDP including the home town of Oni and Arise. And Ac is already ahead by over 11,000 votes. So the PDP needs to over inflate the votes from these areas to over 15,000 votes to be declared winner. So what they do is cause mayhem so actual voters (and journalists, election observers, other party agents, etc) would stay away, then they can ballot stuff in peace, all they need to perfect the rigging is an electoral officer to accept the result, and its deemed legal. It is just that this time she refused.

I am sure you might believe what you have posted above changes things but reality is when you consider we are still talking of Nigeria, a country where the majority still have little access to detailed information, you will understand that my stances is as valid as the one you chose. No need to turn it in to some useless IQ debate as we already have thousands of those going on daily among Nigerians.

Fact : We do not know to what level most all elections in that country are rigged. AC people are saying if they loose, it means it was rigged, PDP people are saying the same. Let me guess, you are going to tell me that if your side looses, it means it was rigged?

Fact: We do not know how INDEPENDENT the so called observers really are. We are only told they exist and yet at the end of the day, people claim the elections were rigged. Case Yar adua's election. We are told they were rigged but the courts thought otherwise.

Fact: To date, we have no record showing how many Elections in that country were actually rigged and how many were not. We all assume they were all rigged. But I choose to question that given what I have learnt of the Nigerian people. Right here on Nairaland we have Obasanjo supporters, IBB supporters, Yar adua supporters, Peter Obi supporters etc. How then can we assume that all elections were rigged? Does that even make sense now?

@kobojunkie

You really need to come back to nigeria and stay for 2 years uninteruppted.

MRS AYOKA ADEBAYO IS STANDING UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT EVEN THOUGH IT IS THE UNLIKELIEST OF THINGS TO DO IN NIGERIA

WE CAN EITHER DECIDE TO STAND WITH HER OR QUESTION WHETHER SHE WAS PAID TO STAND UP

OUR DESTINY IS IN OUR HANDS TO EITHER EMBRACE LIGHT OR GRUPPLE IN THE DARK

asha 80:

@kobojunkie

You really need to come back to nigeria and stay for 2 years uninteruppted.

And what would I learn from that? Why did I leave in the first place? lol

We cannot say for certain that there was rigging for PDP, but for claims of 'illness' to be emanating from the INEC head (appointed by the PDP president and 'reporting' to him) when the lady is indeed not ill is a worrying indicator.

Kobojunkie:

Fact: We do not know how INDEPENDENT the so called observers really are. We are only told they exist and yet at the end of the day, people claim the elections were rigged.

Fact: To date, we have no record showing how many Elections in that country were actually rigged and how many were not. We all assume they were all rigged. But I choose to question that given what I have learnt of the Nigerian people. Right here on Nairaland we have Obasanjo supporters, IBB supporters, Yar adua supporters, Peter Obi supporters etc. How then can we assume that all elections were rigged? Does that even make sense now?

Press men observing ballot boxes and reporting - not one, not two not three newspapers or tv stations. Different observer groups - foreign and international reporting there was rigging.

Election Tribunals with evidence presented and verified by the courts that elections were rigged - records of voter turn out and the records of altered forms submitted by INEC showing rigging.

Pictures and videos of ballot boxes being snatched and voters harrassed.

I guess till the thugs slap you in the face and snatch YOUR ballot there will never be evidence to you.  

Theorising and conceptual arguments are good, but in the face of BLATANT and correlated reports from multiple sources, including the clear fact that NOWHERE in the world achieves 100% election turn out and we get this in almost every election in Nigeria. No there is no evidence, we have no record.

Kudos to Adebayo for resigning to uphold her integrity.

Kobojunkie:

And what would I learn from that? Why did I leave in the first place? lol

You will learn to get reacquianted with naija ways and situation to reunderstand why certain things happen when they happen.

Here we go again, always crucifying the messenger and his works while ignoring the message.
I do not approve of OBJ's sexual morality but i do not see how this revelation by Mrs Oluremi Obasanjo has anything to do with the Ekiti situation.

The story is being economical with the truth, because it was wrong to give the impression that OBJ was still in a relationship with Oluremi before he was Imprisoned. OBJ left Oluremi sometimes in the 70's. I know because i used to live very close to her flat. She lived inf lat at Laurence Rd near Shaw Road junction.  OBJ married Stella around 1980 and moved to Otta with her, and he had been with stella since then. So If any body should complain about OBJ's affairs, especially after his release from prison,  it should be Stella and not Oluremi.

asha 80:

You will learn to get reacquianted with naija ways and situation to reunderstand why certain things happen when they happen.

Why would I go through hell trying to get away from it, only to go back to it in the end? I dey mad? There is nothing like naija ways, in my opinion. We complain and whine about these things but reality is not all cases of election fraud have been substantiated to date. We sort of have this mindset that if we think it, it is true. lol

I understand what Kobo, is saying-- We dont have the facts yet, Until Mrs Adebayo release a press statement stating that she is being compelled todeclare fake result and have the gut and inner strength to mention those pilling pressure on her, then am sorry dont believe it 100%, It could be OBj showing his hand here seeing her closeness to Obj- What has Obj got to gain from it--well His relevance in PDP he cornered the whole Southwest bar Lagos for them in 2003 didnt he, So Mrs Adebayo instead of going all the way to report to SSS in Abuja should have called a press conference even putside the country to say credibly the guilty party, cos naija politicians & politics is way too cunning,

Moves:

I understand what Kobo, is saying-- We dont have the facts yet, Until Mrs Adebayo release a press statement stating that she is being compelled todeclare fake result and have the gut and inner strength to mention those pilling pressure on her, then am sorry dont believe it 100%, It could be OBj showing his hand here seeing her closeness to Obj- What has Obj got to gain from it--well His relevance in PDP he cornered the whole Southwest bar Lagos for them in 2003 didnt he, So Mrs Adebayo instead of going all the way to report to SSS in Abuja should have called a press conference even putside the country to say credibly the guilty party, cos naija politicians & politics is way too cunning,

haha! very funny, now Try again!!!

Kobojunkie:

haha! very funny, now Try again!!!

Seriously -Most things in naija politics is not that straight forward, I personally tend to view naija political events in light of which of the political actors stand to gain most from a situation. I would have thought that for her to refuse to announce the result of the election, thereby resigning her position well personally @74 she should just name & shame the bastards behind the plot to compel her to declare a fake result, her resigning am sorry doesnt go long enough,

Watch out in the next coming days for all sorts of revelation and uncover on how Mrs Adebayo was playing out the wish of certain cabals in the AC and how much she took.

They will certainly not give up nor appologise, they will try to distort this woman's record.

They might even tell us she did not declare her asset with Code of Conduct Bureau

All because she dared stand up to the establishment

Moves:

Seriously -Most things in naija politics is not that straight forward, I personally tend to view naija political events in light of which of the political actors stand to gain most from a situation. I would have thought that for her to refuse to announce the result of the election, thereby resigning her position well personally @74 she should just name & shame the bastards behind the plot to compel her to declare a fake result, her resigning am sorry doesnt go long enough,

Thank you ojare!!
Imagine, some are already making her out to be some hero for just resigning . If she really felt that bad about it, she could have announced the results and Then resigned!! I don't know what good whatever information she has to offer now would be to us. . . . lol

Kobojunkie:

Thank you ojare!!
Imagine, some are already making her out to be some hero for just resigning . If she really felt that bad about it, she could have announced the results and Then resigned!! I don't know what good whatever information she has to offer now would be to us. . . . lol

She no wan die now at 74 .

I get pikin 4 house

I suspect the only reason why she resigned without announcing the result: she simply feared for life. I am sure pdp wouldnot have tolerated her any longer.

Mrs Adebayo's reaction and resignation is very courageous

And that is the standard way of protest anywhere in the world as a Government Functionary

Why do we talk sometimes as if we are uneducated

GOVERNORSHIP RERUN: No winner yet - INEC - Yar’Adua, Goodluck, N/A leadership, security chiefs, Iwu meet over Ekiti deadlock - Uneasy calm in Oye; AC desperate to clinch power - PDP; Don’t announce fake result, AC charges electoral commissioner

http://www.tribune.com.ng/28042009/news/news1.html


PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua on Monday met with his deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole in his office, as well as other top government and security officials over the lingering election rerun in Ekiti State.

Other officials who attended the meeting were the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa, National Security Adviser, Major-General Sarki Muktar, Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, the Director General of the State Security Services (SSS), Mr. Afakriya Gadzama and the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu.

Though nobody told reporters what the high-level meeting was all about, sources, however, said they deliberated on the situation in Ekiti State. The sources also hinted that the meeting might have asked Prof Iwu to “immediately go on air and announce the date for the conclusion of the election in the two wards in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State.”

It was also gathered that the meeting ruled out any idea of declaring a state of emergency in the state where the INEC officials have not been able to conduct the rerun for the governorship seat of the state since Saturday due to alleged security problems.

Meanwhile, apprehensive party supporters and the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Segun Oni, and Action Congress (AC), Dr. Kayode Fayemi, will have to wait until the postponed election in two wards in Oye, Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State is conducted in the state’s governorship rerun before the winner can be declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The rerun was to be conducted in 63 wards in 10 local government areas of the state, according to the judgment of the appellate court which sat in Ilorin, Kwara State on Tuesday, February 17, 2009.

But the re-run only took place in only 61 wards in nine local government areas on Saturday, leaving out two wards in Oye, the headquarters of Oye Local Government.

The election in the two wards in Oye could not take place last Saturday, according to the national chairman of INEC, Professor Iwu, due to the “recalcitrant conduct of politicians who seem determined to bug down the electoral system and process in the country at every run.”

Professor Iwu told newsmen in Abuja on Monday that the commission had first scheduled to conduct the election in the remaining local government area in the affected wards on Sunday, April 26, 2009 but the Ekiti State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo, “broke down and took ill. The commission had no choice but to postpone the remaining election”

In the prevailing circumstance, he said, “It is impossible for the REC therefore to declare a winner of the governorship election in Ekiti State without conducting the election in the remaining two registration areas (wards) in Oye Local Government Area and obtaining the result therefrom.”

He informed that the RECs are the returning officers for the governorship elections in the states and are independent, not directed by anybody supporting it with Section 28 (2) (g) of the Electoral Act 2006.

On the performance of the two leading candidates in last Saturday’s governorship rerun, Professor Iwu disclosed that “the two leading contenders are running neck and neck.”

Arguing that the results received from the polling centres of the already conducted areas were signed off by the agents of the political parties as required by law, Professor Iwu said that the expected votes in the remaining local government area of Oye is in the neighbourhood of 18,000, going by the number of registered voters.

He said that the early stage of the election last Saturday started very well, smooth and quite impressive until serious security situation set in as politicians and their gangs moved in to undermine the process.

According to him, during the stakeholders’ forum which was held before the election, the politicians pledged to abide by the rules and to be decent in their conduct during the election “and the commission left Ekiti satisfied and optimistic that the election would be smooth.”

The INEC chairman informed that the commission had continued to stress the fact that peace and sustenance of democracy required the commitment of all stakeholders and the “determination of the political class to play by the rules for elections and the development of constitutional democracy in Nigeria.”

He, however, disclosed that the conduct of the remaining election in Oye had been postponed indefinitely, relying on section 27(1) of Electoral Act 2006, which states that, “where a date has been appointed for the holding of an election, and there is reason to believe that a serious breach of the peace is likely to occur if the election is proceeded with on that date or it is impossible to conduct the election as a result of natural disasters or other emergencies, the commission may postpone the election and shall in respect of the area, or areas concerned, appoint another date for the holding of the postponed election.”

The INEC chairman further commended the Nigeria Police for being on top of the situation during the election in the state, saying that no life was lost.
Meanwhile, the sleepy town of Oye, on Monday, looked peaceful but tense. When Nigerian Tribune reporter moved round the town in the morning, it was observed that commercial activities were yet to return to the town as well as the adjoining Ilupeju-Ekiti and Ifaki-Ekiti, home town of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Mr. Oni.

Mobile policemen were still stationed in strategic positions, particularly on Ifaki/Oye Road, erecting road blocks for stop-and-search. Roads within and along the town were deserted as one or two vehicles were seen on them, while youths of the town were seen gathered in groups, discussing the political development in the town.

A PDP chieftain in Oye town and senator representing Ekiti North senatorial district, Ayo Arise, who spoke with journalists, said the confusion into which the town and the entire local government had been thrown was unfortunate, adding that it was the fault of some politicians who were bent on governing the state at all costs.

He said the people of the town and the entire Ekiti State were not happy as the said politicians seemed to be having their ways despite not following the rule of law.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday in Abuja blamed the Action Congress (AC) for the outbreak of violence which has led to the apparent stalemate in the exercise.

It said in a statement signed by its National Secretary, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali that AC had engaged in the perpetration of acts of violence in its desperate attempt to capture power in the state, vowing that former governor Segun Oni would return to office at the end of the election.

According to the party’s spokesman, “we have been following the Ekiti State re-run with deep concern. Particularly, we wish to condemn in totality the various acts of violence that AC is unleashing on the peace loving people of Ekiti State.

“We had thought that as true democrats, they would heed the call of Mr. President (Umaru Yar’Ádua) to avoid anything that will disrupt peace and tranquillity in Ekiti State. Unfortunately, in their desperate attempt to win this election at all cost, they have thrown caution to the wind.”

While commending security agencies for “demonstrating maturity in this rather very difficult task,” the ruling party advised AC to retrace its step and allow for an enabling environment for the conclusion of the outstanding election in Oye-Ekiti Local Government.
However, the Action Congress (AC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner for Ekiti State, Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo, to stay the course of truth by refusing to announce fake result of the Ekiti governorship re-run.

The party, in statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its national Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said Mrs. Adebayo could easily become the heroine of the nation’s democracy if she did not succumb to pressure to subvert the will of the people of Ekiti.

The AC said Mrs. Adebayo must confirm her strength of character and go the whole hog by telling Nigerians her own side of the story, so that she would not be misunderstood or mis-represented.

“Nigerians will like to know what has transpired at the election, especially in the controversial local governments, as well as those who are putting her under pressure to act against her conscience.

“In particular, the whole world will like to know from the Resident Commissioner what happened at Ido-Osi Local Government, where a fabricated result gave the PDP an impossible 15,939 votes - more than what the party scored in five local governments!” the AC said.

The party said if Mrs. Adebayo stayed true to her conscience, she could become a redeeming force for democracy as well as for INEC, which it said had willfully colluded in the past with the police to thwart the will of the people.

“Our sincere hope, therefore, is that she will not crumble under pressure from rampaging vote-thieves and perpetrators of brigandage. Her reward - writing her name in gold - will be long-lasting and definitely more than what the rapacious and desperate politicians from the PDP can offer her,” the party said.

The AC said, for the avoidance of doubt, that it did not seek any favour from anyone beyond allowing the people’s will to prevail in the re-run election.

@kobo

what is your point? We all know everything u highlighted. Until she comes out with a press statement nobody knows.

thanks

asha 80:

She no wan die now at 74 .

I get pikin 4 house

Then she should not have taken the job in the first place. What did she expect would happen? They would throw a party for her or somethin? Did she suddenly grow a conscience at 74? Anywho, if you read the piece above from tribune, the AC party is calling for her to step up and talk already instead of caving!! lol

another humphrey Nwosu is the making or Maibe not. hopefully its the latter.

blacksta:

@kobo

what is your point?

thanks

My point is there are two sides to these stories.