While teaching at Ekiti State University, Dr. Tope Aluko once returned a book to the library. The busy librarian had his head down. Aluko slammed the book on the counter and bellowed:



“I read this entire novel; there are too many names of people and no story at all in it!”
The Librarian looked up, took the book from him and responded:
“Idiot! So you were the one who took the Attendance register?”

This is the joke that most aptly describes the tragedy that is Dr. Temitope Aluko, the former Ekiti State PDP Secretary who is now unearthing all the political corpses he helped bury in shallow graves. Watching him on TV, you can’t but agree with the adage: “book sense is inferior to
common sense”.

The sad thing about Aluko’s admission – that he was part of the ignoble team that rigged the 2014 Ekiti Guber election in favor of Ayodele Fayose – is not the rigging itself. Rigging is rampant in our elections. It is the fact that he walked away from the Channels television studio freely and went about his business as if nothing had happened. In fact, he went on to another TV station and granted more interviews where he continued to give lurid details about how he and fellow unpatriotic Nigerians suborned Nigeria’s electoral process with impunity. Then he spoke
on the Radio and granted interviews to the print media too.

Yet, as I write this, he is walking freely amongst decent, law-abiding people. He might as well have called a World Press Conference in Abuja, right there in the Conference Room of the DSS or even the Police Headquarters , and described in the sort of details only the killer would know, how he killed Dele Giwa, Alfred Rewane and Bola Ige, and nothing would happen to him. What are the law enforcement agents waiting for? An arrest order from the President? A warrant of arrest from a judge? Probable cause maybe? Here is a man holding a knife with fresh blood dripping from it, telling you he just killed people and describing to you how he did it and where he put the bodies; yet, you are waiting for…I don’t know what.

Sadder even is the confirmation (for we all already knew from the famous Ekitigate audio tape) that Soldiers, Police Officers and members of the DSS participated in the last-minute stifling, harassment, robbing and illegal detention of opposition party leaders so that the PDP would have a free range on that election day in 2014. Those officers, who all swore to an oath of fairness and integrity before being issued their uniforms and weapons, aided the systematic disintegration of the moral and physical fibers of the country they swore to protect. And they had no compunction about it. It is one thing to defeat the incumbent Governor. But it is another thing to rout him in all 16 local governments – a humiliation that was the epitome of crudity and unbridled greed. One opposition party leader said his Ward was awarded one vote…one single vote, even though he and his wife, children and other family members voted for his party!

But the saddest part of the sordid saga…the one that takes the trophy for treason…is the confirmation that the Commander-in-Chief himself facilitated the entrenchment of moral decadence and adulteration of national ethos in a section of his own country, just so he could be re-elected. First tranche was a $2 million for Fayose to win just the PDP primary? Goodluck Jonathan gave $2 million to one PDP candidate contesting against other candidates of the same party? Then followed by a second tranche of $35 million for him to win the general election?

Alleged drug baron and fugitive-from-American-justice, Buruji Nashamu, also reportedly chipped in? Musiliu Obanikoro was the alleged courier of $35 million raw cash? They took the money to Onitsha and changed it to naira? (Who owns the Bureau de Change that changed the money for them?) This is the kind of revelation that causes you to hope that God (or the Devil, in this case) has a special furnace in hell for some of our politicians. Even in those days when the naira had a respectable showing against the dollar, $37 million dollars was not chump change to anybody. If Otedola lost $37 million, he would miss it. If Dangote lost $37 million, he would miss it. Heck, if Bill Gates lost $37 million, he would miss it! The only way you could spend that kind of money in pursuit of a hollow, tainted, pyrrhic victory and not bat an eyelid is if you stole it in the first place. And only if you have a lot more than that left from your theft. Good luck to Jonathan on his quest for that Nobel Prize for Peace.

Continue reading here http://trendope.com/2016/02/ekitigate-tope-aluko-a-festering-tragicomedy-by-abiodun-ladepo/

May God help us our country.

Everything now has gate attached to it now, all thks to Dasuki

Tope is only indictg himself.

hmmmmmmm

No sinner will go scotfree just wait n see

But the saddest part of the sordid saga…the one that takes the trophy for treason…is the confirmation that the Commander-in-Chief himself facilitated the entrenchment of moral decadence and adulteration of national ethos in a section of his own country, just so he could be re-elected.

Yet some malicious malcontent miscreants have adopted a largely ineffectual buffoon as their hero, their case is worse than deceitful liar who praises robbers who just robbed him, they've been robbed of wisdom and sense.

Of course tax payers monies should be applied accountably.

The problem I have with writers like this is their sworn hypocrisy. He won't ever attacked the source of funding to Buhari election.
....one thing I find annoying though is the attempt to impute that Ekiti Fayose election was rig...it's a saving face story. Fayose trashed APC and Fayemi in that election hands down.
People forget that elections where conducted elsewhere with same supply of money and military but oshiomhole still won.

It is one thing to defeat the incumbent Governor. But it is another thing to rout him in all 16 local governments – a humiliation that was the epitome of crudity and unbridled greed. One opposition party leader said his Ward was awarded one vote…one single vote, even though he and his wife, children and other family members voted for his party!

I can't wait to have fayose falling off that seat. No compunction, the lunatic run around the whole place calling God's name . God supports monumental rigging like fayose promoted in that election of ekiti? Mockery!

tinkinjow:
Of course tax payers monies should be applied accountably.

The problem I have with writers like this is their sworn hypocrisy. He won't ever attacked the source of funding to Buhari election.
....one thing I find annoying though is the attempt to impute that Ekiti Fayose election was rig...it's a saving face story. Fayose trashed APC and Fayemi in that election hands down.
People forget that elections where conducted elsewhere with same supply of money and military but oshiomhole still won.

can you just shut up?

When will all these people accept that Fayose is here to stay for real. Apc move on and stop being sore losers u can't win all and u too rigged where u were strong. Please how will all this noise create jobs and improve the welfare of the citizens even as we have #2016BudgetOfYams ?

chriskosherbal:
Everything now has gate attached to it now, all thks to Dasuki

all started not with Dasuki but with president Nixxon of the US in 1972... The watergate scandal... Notwitstanding, all parties attempted rigging the Ekiti election. But the stronger hand succeeded, thus justice served.