The 37-minute recording details the
conversation between these PDP
leaders and politicians 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.”


SaharaReporters has received
unimpeachable documents and
audio recordings providing
substantial evidence that major
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
leaders planned and successfully rigged the gubernatorial elections in
Ekiti State, and plotted a similar
scenario in Osun in 2014.

The audio recordings and affidavit
were provided by Sagir Koli, a
Captain in the 32nd Artillery Brigade
stationed in Ekiti State, who has since
fled the country for fear of retaliation.
Capt. Koli recorded the conversation on 20th June 2014 when he was
asked to accompany his
Commanding Officer, Brigadier
General Aliyu Momoh, to the
meeting. The venue was held at
Spotless Hotel in Ado-Ekiti.

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.

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.”

SaharaReporters further 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.

Authentication of Audio Recordings
and Proof of Election Fraud The audio recordings were analyzed
and authenticated by Guardian
Consulting, an independent US-
based security consulting company.
According to a report authored by
Guardian Consulting, also in the possession of SaharaReporters, the
independent company used Forensic
Voice Frequency Comparison
technology to identify all voices on
the recording with audio available in
the public domain.

The then Deputy Defense Minister,
Obanikoro clearly states to General
Momoh that he was not only sent to
the meeting by President Jonathan,
but “you can’t get a promotion
without me sitting on top of your military council. If I am happy
tomorrow night, the sky is your
limit.”

Governor Fayose revealed that he
had already bribed an official of the
Independent National Election
Commission (INEC), the non-political
commission charged with organizing
elections in Nigeria, to bring copies of voter ballots with the INEC logo to
him that day. Fayose, upset that his
INEC contact was caught in traffic,
narrated his day’s frustrations:
“Where are we supposed to be
collating the thing INEC gave to us? Soft copies we now printed? Why is
my [INEC] contact not with [the
ballots]…my contact man [was] sitting
in the check point…it took me more
than two hours to get this man.”

As the plotters began to argue,
Omisore, who was running for
Governor of Osun State on the PDP
ticket, tried to calm the room: “I
would just say that we don’t have to
argue so much, we have seen some lapses [today] yes. It’s just this
evening, there is nothing happening
now that we cannot contain before
tomorrow morning.”

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