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.
AUTHENTIFICATION OF AUDIO RECORDING 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.”
PLANS TO RIG ELECTIONS IN FAVOUR IN FAVOUR OF PDP
The eyewitness testimony and sworn affidavit by Capt.
Koli corroborates the audio recordings of the PDP
officials’ plans to manipulate the Ekiti elections. The
plotters devised several plans intended to bring about
an unlawful victory for PDP candidates in Ekiti State
races, including the forging of INEC ballots, the use of
the military to facilitate access for PDP operatives and
supporters, the creation of a list of APC members to be
arrested, and the deployment of a Special Team of
military personnel to prevent APC voters from reaching
the polls.
The PDP officials told General Momoh that those
soldiers on election duty “must work hand-in-hand with
the PDP agents” and ordered the arrest of selected APC
stalwarts as that could “greatly assist the party during
the election including DG campaign organization for Dr.
Fayemi, Mr. Bimbo Daramola,” Capt. Koli said in his
affidavit.
General Momoh, confronted with criticism by the
group, defended himself by saying that “we have done a
lot of [APC] arrests.” It would be recalled that there
were arrests of APC members in Ekiti during the period.
It would also be recalled that many members of the
security offices paraded around Ekiti in disguise.
The PDP collaborators also demanded that the military
block APC members’ access to the electorate and that
moles should “be careful because the consequence will
be severe.”
Soldiers were instructed set up roadblocks leading to
the polling stations and prevent APC supporters’ access.
Additionally, vehicles and individuals with a special
sticker labeled “National Security Task” were allowed
movement anywhere, and were only distributed to PDP
agents.
General Momoh informed the group that there were
“about 6 special teams. I have one strike force. I have
almost forty soldiers after deployment,” evidently an
organized system being used to manipulate voter
turnout.
Capt. Koli’s statement explained that based on these
strategies, “they succeeded in rigging the Ekiti State
election with victory in all the 16 Local Governing
Authorities (LGAs). These really inspired them and they
were with the euphoria that same would happen in
Osun State.”
Indeed, leading into the Osun State elections the
Brigadier General posted there was told to take a three-
week leave during the elections. His position was
temporarily filled by General Momoh, who then
repeated the same fraudulent tactics in Osun.
RETALIATION AGAINST CAPTAIN SAGIR KOLI
SaharaReporters was provided with additional evidence
that proves the military retaliated against Capt. Koli
when he released this information. Capt. Koli fled
before he was arrested, but the military arrested,
secretly detained, and chained his brother Adamu to a
bed for nearly five months at the Adekunle Fanjuyi’s
Cantonment.
In an exclusive phone interview with from his hideout
outside Nigeria, Capt. Koli told SaharaReporters that his
brother was starved for periods of time and sometimes
“fed worms.” Adamu was only released after a petition,
which is also in possession of SaharaReporters, was
submitted to the National Human Rights Commission by
Barrister Chief K. Akinola Ajayi.
The treatment of Capt. Koli’s brother was so poor
during his illegal confinement that he had to be
hospitalized due to malnutrition.
SaharaReporters contacted Nigerian Defense
spokesperson, General Chris Olukolade as well as
Nigerian Army spokesperson, Col. SK Usman, for
comment on this story. Both officials promised to get
back to us but never did.

source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/05/how-obanikoro-fayose-chris-uba-and-brig-general-momoh-rigged-ekiti-governorship-election

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