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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by Demdem(m): 2:11pm On Feb 06, 2015
ocelot2006:
Excellent response form Obanikoro. But I have to ask, if this was true, who authorise Sahara Reporters or APC to eavesdrop on a phone call or bug the line? They do know that it's a federal crime, right?

One of the details of the Corrupt General, a captain recorded the audio. He is currently on exile. He should be given a national award.

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by iblaw: 2:16pm On Feb 06, 2015
THE SUMMARY OF IT ALL IS LET US KICK PDP OUT DURING THIS ELECTION. THE POWER IS IN OUR HANDS NOW. WHEN OUR LEADERS KNOW CHANGE IS POSSIBLE EVERY FOUR YEARS THEY WILL SEAT UP

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by giantstrides(m): 2:17pm On Feb 06, 2015
Faibuhari:
APC and propaganda, I've told my staff that anyone that talks APC trash in my office will go on. Indefinite leave.

Yet you will be the first to say buhari is a dictator who gives no room for opposition...
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by fretnot(m): 2:19pm On Feb 06, 2015
The audio recording on which it was based was surreptitiously made by Captain Sagir Koli of the 32nd Artillery Brigade stationed in Ekiti State who accompanied to the meeting the military general in charge of the Ekiti plan. He has since left Nigeria in order to protect his life, leaving behind the patriotic body of work behind this story.
A close analysis of the audio of the Ekiti election eve meeting of 20 June 2014 meeting between the implementers of the rigging plan shows how easy rigging an election can be once it has the right mix of executive and security collusion. It also underlines the arrogance and impunity with which electoral fraud may be carried out.
At the meeting were the following: Ayo Fayose, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate; Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, at the time the Minister of State for Defence; Senator Iyiola Omisore; Caleb Olubolade, the Minister for Police Affairs; Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, and one “Honorable” Abdul Kareem, said to be a federal legislator.
Fayose, understandably, was present in his own interest, as the man the PDP wanted to put into Government House. The audio published here shows him in that role, exuding a blend of arrogance and confidence. He speaks with authority, bullying and intimidating Brigadier-General Momoh.
“We agreed in Abuja on the modalities to work,” the governor-to-be brags. “We agreed on a sticker, that any vehicle you see that sicker, you allow that sticker. That sticker is on those vehicles his own was sent to him, mine was sent to me. The one by SSS was given to me to give to them; there is no vehicle that left this place without that sticker.”
Obanikoro establishes the link of the group with the executive branch, pointing out that he was present at the behest of President Goodluck. “Am not here for tea party,” he announces. “Am here on a special assignment by the President.”
That assignment: to ensure that Fayose became the governor of Ekiti State by foul means. Omisore, a former Senator and former Deputy Governor of Osun State, was a candidate for the Osun election that would follow Ekiti’s. He seemed present to ensure success of the plan, perhaps in preparation for his own enthronement in his state thereafter.
The rest of the cast seemed to be the finely-honed tools of the operation:
General Momoh, Commander of the 32nd Artillery Brigade in Ekiti, representing the Chief of Staff of the Nigerian Army, and therefore the Nigerian military, in a partisan effort to rig a gubernatorial election.
Olubolade, the Police Minister, representing the Police Force, to make sure the Police did the bidding of the Presidency, and therefore the PDP, in a partisan effort to rig the gubernatorial election.
Obanikoro, having established that he was on the President’s special mission, speaks authoritatively, threateningly, even presidentially:
“I want him picked up [arrested) in the morning!” he says of Bimbo Daramola, [Governor Kayode Fayemi’s Campaign Manager]
“You can’t get promotion without me sitting on top of your military council,” he tells General Momoh. “If I am a happy man tomorrow night [after electoral victory), the sky is your limit.”
General Momoh demonstrates how Nigeria’s military has become not only the fetchers and carriers for the political class, but also its whipping boy. He is the clearest lesson yet why the Nigerian army seems to have lost its way.
“Chief of Army Staff called me,” Fayose tells General Momoh. “He told me, you are in safe hands…[General Momoh] would perform and if you have any issues, call me. He told me and I have made it clear to him [Chief of Army Staff] that I am Jonathan for this election.”
Fayose clearly had been given the maximum authority at the highest level to do whatever he needed to do to become Governor of Ekiti.
General Momoh, apparently clear about his orders emanating from the highest levels, was putting in his shift.
Among other things, he reassures his handlers, “We have strike force…We can start arresting [APC members] in the afternoon…I have almost 40 solders after deployment…We have done a lot of arrest.”
There are arguments running through the audio that General Momoh is not doing enough for the cause, that he does not jump quickly enough when ordered. When he appears to respond, he is roundly cut down.
“Don’t talk to me anyhow,” Abdul Kareem tells him at a point, “Who are you that I am insulting you? If I am in the military, I would be a brigadier or general today…”
“General, relax, sit down,” Olubolade tells him. “You are a soldier man. You are working for us…”
Fayose tells him, “Brigadier-General, I was governor of this state 12 years ago, you [were] probably a captain or major [at that time]…When you talk to this man he would argue from morning to night…My younger brother retired in the army as Brigadier General, when you explain to this man, its argument, argument, argument…”( SaharaReporters established that an elder brother of Mr. Ayodele Fayose named Tunde Fayose, retired as a Brigadier General in the Nigerian Army.
Obanikoro says to the other about General Momoh: “Let us make progress, give him instructions on what we want him to do, let him go and do it. Let us monitor him, and make sure those things are done…”
And directly to the General, he says, “The idea of [our] calling you and not getting reactions, we have to stop that now. You must bring that to an end. When we call you, within the next 5-10 minutes, we need to know what has been done about it…”
Fayose also reads General Momoh the riot act, in the process revealing the length and breadth of the rot of election rigging.
“My people cannot be following you about,” he warns the general. “We don’t follow IG about, we don’t follow police about. The OC MOPOL of this state is working for us, we don’t follow him about. When we call him one hand [and say] ‘we have this problem’, he settles it immediately. Last night, we told him this is happening around the Government House, he cordoned off all the four entrances…”
It is also of great significance that in the middle of the brouhaha about the performance of General Momoh, Fayose says, “We have to call the President and let him know. These people are doing some things.
They would not even serve the police that want to help us. We can’t continue like this!”
With that remark, Fayose confirms that President Jonathan is at the heart of their plan, and can be briefed at any time, perhaps for further resources.
This audio-drama restates the Nigerian electoral equation: that executive power and considerable resources are often used to subvert the will of the people. Here now is proof, finally, that not only was the Ekiti gubernatorial election June 20, 2014 rigged aforethought, it was rigged using the entire weight of federal power, with the Nigerian Army and the police involved in all kinds of illegalities.
The dramatis personae in this embarrassing plan are clear, from President Jonathan down through the PDP machine, but would be expected to attempt to deny everything.
But we have proof, here, about how the Ekiti governorship, on the back of the fable of “stomach infrastructure”, was thoroughly rigged: a plan that had probably been used in the past, and may be used as a model for future elections.
The question is: where is Nigerian law, especially when it is so roundly slapped in the face?
Listen to the evidence as published here, and take a stand.

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by mahkanjuh: 2:20pm On Feb 06, 2015
That the eventual timing of the release of the doctored audio coming on the eve of the ruling of the Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal makes it even more sinister. For all intents and purposes, it is a failed attempt to compromise the outcome of the Tribunal ruling and set the tone for public sympathy in the event of an unfavorable ruling.

JUST, stop lying
See, where U got it wrong all d way, verdict given.....Aregbe was declared winner.
I just pity U, atleast u shld have waited 4 dis judgement
CHANGE! CHANGE!! CHANGE!!!
Sai Buhari

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by Nobody: 2:20pm On Feb 06, 2015
OgologoDimkpa:

So true!
Master forgers!
If the work is believed to be done by APC as you are fooled to accept, I think it shows we need APC to rule us because they are smart and not clueless.
You approved of the propaganda sponsored by the PDP which was full of lies and deceit, but find it difficult to accept the truth.
It's gonna do you like a nightmare after February 14.
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by micolaj: 2:22pm On Feb 06, 2015
sparkleRed:

Wen u finish sayn trash tell me...Mr intelligent angry
Stop crying my lady and I don't you to take it personal.we are here to learn and educate ourselves, our views might different at times and that's the reason we have to tolerate ourselves.Shalom
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by ayodot(m): 2:24pm On Feb 06, 2015
Who has the the link to the audio pls.









Enrich UR MIND
http://www.kaymu.com.ng/whats-really-stopping-you-264247.html

Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by Nobody: 2:26pm On Feb 06, 2015
Think people,think.
why would a General allow a captain to accompany him to such a sensitive meeting.
Only a desperate fool will believe this Apc crap
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by sparkleRed(f): 2:26pm On Feb 06, 2015
micolaj:
Stop crying my lady and I don't you to take it personal.we are here to learn and educate ourselves, our views might different at times and that's the reason we have to tolerate ourselves.Shalom
Exactly y u should ve no bizness in my comments, I shared my own thought, and 2 u it had no reasoning
Why am I even replying u sef...na boredom cos am
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by Nobody: 2:28pm On Feb 06, 2015
I will take this audio recording as genuine until the general still serving in the armed forces disclaim it....as he is a major actor.

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by micolaj: 2:29pm On Feb 06, 2015
sparkleRed:

Exactly y u should ve no bizness in my comments, I shared my own thought, and 2 u it had no reasoning
Why am I even replying u sef...na boredom cos am
ah ah ah ah Ladies and E-shakara.
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by sparkleRed(f): 2:30pm On Feb 06, 2015
micolaj:
ah ah ah ah Ladies and E-shakara.
tongue...if we no do shakara who will cool
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by micolaj: 2:33pm On Feb 06, 2015
sparkleRed:

tongue...if we no do shakara who will cool
It's your exclusive right nao.SHALOM
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by Nobody: 2:42pm On Feb 06, 2015
Very sad! No wonder Fayose is hell bent on following his masters to where ever.

Shey this is the transformation that PDP is offering us?! sad

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by yourmesprings(m): 2:43pm On Feb 06, 2015
mannet:


How are yo different from a dictator/autocrat, are you not subverting their political freedom and free will to express themselves ? i pity ur staffs they are working with an Animal

Pay him no mind. A true boss doesn't act like a slave. Besides, barber shop is now a company with a boss.
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by wazobiaN9(m): 2:45pm On Feb 06, 2015
aljharem:
Good response. We know Sahara reporters and their lies. If they had it all this while,why didn't they publish it after the election.

This is a cheap blackmail and people should be very careful of what they read on the internet. APC is a very desperate party with desperate motives.

They kill, they manipulate, arm twist, forge, rig etc just to get power and money.

Even fayemi admitted he lost. The people of ekiti both old, young and youth rejoiced at the exit of fayemi.

A man that sleeps on a 100 million naira bed in ekiti is now claiming to be rigged out

A million lai mohammed can not change our opinion on apc


You must be one of the people suffering from distended stomach infrastructure.

Koro did not refute a meeting took place, neither did he attempt to explain some new information... such as the other players mentioned in this saga.

Reason is simple, this meeting did take place, and all those players were there. It has become a 'save your skin' matter... forget your neighbour.

Go chop better food so that you go fit think small.

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by dammytosh: 2:52pm On Feb 06, 2015
tejpot:
I don't expect less from the born-liar and thug.

I was only surprised that he has failed to explain certain things captured by the audio recording

1. Was there any conversation between him and the Brig. General?

2. Was there any man named Captain Sagir Koli

3. Was Brig general Momoh deployed for Osun poll or not

4. Was Fayose captured or not in the audio recording?

5. Is there truly a brother of Captain Koli that was unlawfully detained

6. The recording exposed more than one personality and all the trash Obanikoro posted was only pointing accusing fingers to APC and Tribunal. Was APC at the meeting with them on that fateful day?

7. In all the points stated by Obanikoro, it has clearly shown that their bubbles have been bursted and I hope this remain in Public discussion domain until we all carefully and watchfully cast and protect our vote come Feb. 14.


I am just tired of this nation and the youths.

Some don't even have the MB to listen to the 2Hr + Audio and they are writing and liking thrash.

PDP is a fraud and their Bubble have been bursted.

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by bimbor(m): 2:54pm On Feb 06, 2015
Smh.....This People have sold Nigeria to slavery!! Aaaah!!!


There was a country!!

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by Virgindove(f): 2:56pm On Feb 06, 2015
fretnot:
The audio recording on which it was based was surreptitiously made by Captain Sagir Koli of the 32nd Artillery Brigade stationed in Ekiti State who accompanied to the meeting the military general in charge of the Ekiti plan. He has since left Nigeria in order to protect his life, leaving behind the patriotic body of work behind this story.
A close analysis of the audio of the Ekiti election eve meeting of 20 June 2014 meeting between the implementers of the rigging plan shows how easy rigging an election can be once it has the right mix of executive and security collusion. It also underlines the arrogance and impunity with which electoral fraud may be carried out.
At the meeting were the following: Ayo Fayose, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate; Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, at the time the Minister of State for Defence; Senator Iyiola Omisore; Caleb Olubolade, the Minister for Police Affairs; Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, and one “Honorable” Abdul Kareem, said to be a federal legislator.
Fayose, understandably, was present in his own interest, as the man the PDP wanted to put into Government House. The audio published here shows him in that role, exuding a blend of arrogance and confidence. He speaks with authority, bullying and intimidating Brigadier-General Momoh.
“We agreed in Abuja on the modalities to work,” the governor-to-be brags. “We agreed on a sticker, that any vehicle you see that sicker, you allow that sticker. That sticker is on those vehicles his own was sent to him, mine was sent to me. The one by SSS was given to me to give to them; there is no vehicle that left this place without that sticker.”
Obanikoro establishes the link of the group with the executive branch, pointing out that he was present at the behest of President Goodluck. “Am not here for tea party,” he announces. “Am here on a special assignment by the President.”
That assignment: to ensure that Fayose became the governor of Ekiti State by foul means. Omisore, a former Senator and former Deputy Governor of Osun State, was a candidate for the Osun election that would follow Ekiti’s. He seemed present to ensure success of the plan, perhaps in preparation for his own enthronement in his state thereafter.
The rest of the cast seemed to be the finely-honed tools of the operation:
General Momoh, Commander of the 32nd Artillery Brigade in Ekiti, representing the Chief of Staff of the Nigerian Army, and therefore the Nigerian military, in a partisan effort to rig a gubernatorial election.
Olubolade, the Police Minister, representing the Police Force, to make sure the Police did the bidding of the Presidency, and therefore the PDP, in a partisan effort to rig the gubernatorial election.
Obanikoro, having established that he was on the President’s special mission, speaks authoritatively, threateningly, even presidentially:
“I want him picked up [arrested) in the morning!” he says of Bimbo Daramola, [Governor Kayode Fayemi’s Campaign Manager]
“You can’t get promotion without me sitting on top of your military council,” he tells General Momoh. “If I am a happy man tomorrow night [after electoral victory), the sky is your limit.”
General Momoh demonstrates how Nigeria’s military has become not only the fetchers and carriers for the political class, but also its whipping boy. He is the clearest lesson yet why the Nigerian army seems to have lost its way.
“Chief of Army Staff called me,” Fayose tells General Momoh. “He told me, you are in safe hands…[General Momoh] would perform and if you have any issues, call me. He told me and I have made it clear to him [Chief of Army Staff] that I am Jonathan for this election.”
Fayose clearly had been given the maximum authority at the highest level to do whatever he needed to do to become Governor of Ekiti.
General Momoh, apparently clear about his orders emanating from the highest levels, was putting in his shift.
Among other things, he reassures his handlers, “We have strike force…We can start arresting [APC members] in the afternoon…I have almost 40 solders after deployment…We have done a lot of arrest.”
There are arguments running through the audio that General Momoh is not doing enough for the cause, that he does not jump quickly enough when ordered. When he appears to respond, he is roundly cut down.
“Don’t talk to me anyhow,” Abdul Kareem tells him at a point, “Who are you that I am insulting you? If I am in the military, I would be a brigadier or general today…”
“General, relax, sit down,” Olubolade tells him. “You are a soldier man. You are working for us…”
Fayose tells him, “Brigadier-General, I was governor of this state 12 years ago, you [were] probably a captain or major [at that time]…When you talk to this man he would argue from morning to night…My younger brother retired in the army as Brigadier General, when you explain to this man, its argument, argument, argument…”( SaharaReporters established that an elder brother of Mr. Ayodele Fayose named Tunde Fayose, retired as a Brigadier General in the Nigerian Army.
Obanikoro says to the other about General Momoh: “Let us make progress, give him instructions on what we want him to do, let him go and do it. Let us monitor him, and make sure those things are done…”
And directly to the General, he says, “The idea of [our] calling you and not getting reactions, we have to stop that now. You must bring that to an end. When we call you, within the next 5-10 minutes, we need to know what has been done about it…”
Fayose also reads General Momoh the riot act, in the process revealing the length and breadth of the rot of election rigging.
“My people cannot be following you about,” he warns the general. “We don’t follow IG about, we don’t follow police about. The OC MOPOL of this state is working for us, we don’t follow him about. When we call him one hand [and say] ‘we have this problem’, he settles it immediately. Last night, we told him this is happening around the Government House, he cordoned off all the four entrances…”
It is also of great significance that in the middle of the brouhaha about the performance of General Momoh, Fayose says, “We have to call the President and let him know. These people are doing some things.
They would not even serve the police that want to help us. We can’t continue like this!”
With that remark, Fayose confirms that President Jonathan is at the heart of their plan, and can be briefed at any time, perhaps for further resources.
This audio-drama restates the Nigerian electoral equation: that executive power and considerable resources are often used to subvert the will of the people. Here now is proof, finally, that not only was the Ekiti gubernatorial election June 20, 2014 rigged aforethought, it was rigged using the entire weight of federal power, with the Nigerian Army and the police involved in all kinds of illegalities.
The dramatis personae in this embarrassing plan are clear, from President Jonathan down through the PDP machine, but would be expected to attempt to deny everything.
But we have proof, here, about how the Ekiti governorship, on the back of the fable of “stomach infrastructure”, was thoroughly rigged: a plan that had probably been used in the past, and may be used as a model for future elections.
The question is: where is Nigerian law, especially when it is so roundly slapped in the face?
Listen to the evidence as published here, and take a stand.
This is a SERIOUS abuse of power and trust.

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by Dahjhi: 2:56pm On Feb 06, 2015
AZeD1:

This part doesn't make sense.. Blackmail is still illegal in Nigeria so why didn't Senator Obanikoro’s team report the matter to the authorities?
Are you sure you understands what you are reading?
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by eleko1: 2:58pm On Feb 06, 2015
grin grin grin grin cheesy grin grin grin grin
deejayterabyte:


Staff? cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy

Leave that cyber cafe and go take your drugs

Mad fool angry angry
leave the clown alone jare,staff koh,Silifa ni.PAthetic liar angry
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by temmytanny(m): 3:00pm On Feb 06, 2015
Obanikoro forgot that there is forensic evidence to the audio. Mumu!

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by chibas: 3:06pm On Feb 06, 2015
lapo:
That means Mr. Kayode Fayemi can return as governor.
not so fast.
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by Nobody: 3:11pm On Feb 06, 2015
Champele:
Since APC discover this media strategy to win election,there is nothing i wouldn't expect from paid agents like Sahara reporters. Common debate they no gree do,illiterates.

Listen to the audio.

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by spako4(m): 3:17pm On Feb 06, 2015
no hiding place for evil men
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by jibloh(m): 3:21pm On Feb 06, 2015
tejpot:
I don't expect less from the born-liar and thug.

I was only surprised that he has failed to explain certain things captured by the audio recording

1. Was there any conversation between him and the Brig. General?

2. Was there any man named Captain Sagir Koli

3. Was Brig general Momoh deployed for Osun poll or not

4. Was Fayose captured or not in the audio recording?

5. Is there truly a brother of Captain Koli that was unlawfully detained

6. The recording exposed more than one personality and all the trash Obanikoro posted was only pointing accusing fingers to APC and Tribunal. Was APC at the meeting with them on that fateful day?

7. In all the points stated by Obanikoro, it has clearly shown that their bubbles have been bursted and I hope this remain in Public discussion domain until we all carefully and watchfully cast and protect our vote come Feb. 14.


I love your analysis. You must be a lawyer. Our politicians sometimes think the governed are idiots. They have always failed to realize that Nigerians are intelligent. I am sure Koro wasn't thinking about the points you have raised here before he hurriedly released his not-well-thought-out and fictitious defence.
This is enough evidence for Fayemi to go to the election Tribuna.

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by aperture11: 3:29pm On Feb 06, 2015
sparkleRed:
U pple re funny sha, as if u don't knw in dis age of technology, audio tape voices can be manipulated na wa...its only God dat knws who is truthful...2 many sentimental pple on nairaland..be very critical in ur thinking

No political party is sincere.. all na propaganda
Obanikoro didn't deny the meeting though, that alone ties him to the scene of the incidence. What he claims is manipulation of what he said. It would have been better to claim that such meeting never happened and all this could have been orchestrated in the studio using some magical software, that would have been more believable.

I think all the actors should have met and formed a united front before releasing statements. Fayose denied that the meeting never held unlike Obanikoro.

But then there is that US security firm that confirms authenticity, now that the recording is in public domain believe me so many other people will do their own verification and the truth will come out.

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by eleko1: 3:38pm On Feb 06, 2015
Sigh! No wonder,those irresponsible bastards want the election postponed so that they'll have time to do their wuruwuru.God pass them.JONA,Tufia!Ur own don be.
fretnot:
The audio recording on which it was based was surreptitiously made by Captain Sagir Koli of the 32nd Artillery Brigade stationed in Ekiti State who accompanied to the meeting the military general in charge of the Ekiti plan. He has since left Nigeria in order to protect his life, leaving behind the patriotic body of work behind this story.
A close analysis of the audio of the Ekiti election eve meeting of 20 June 2014 meeting between the implementers of the rigging plan shows how easy rigging an election can be once it has the right mix of executive and security collusion. It also underlines the arrogance and impunity with which electoral fraud may be carried out.
At the meeting were the following: Ayo Fayose, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate; Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, at the time the Minister of State for Defence; Senator Iyiola Omisore; Caleb Olubolade, the Minister for Police Affairs; Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, and one “Honorable” Abdul Kareem, said to be a federal legislator.
Fayose, understandably, was present in his own interest, as the man the PDP wanted to put into Government House. The audio published here shows him in that role, exuding a blend of arrogance and confidence. He speaks with authority, bullying and intimidating Brigadier-General Momoh.
“We agreed in Abuja on the modalities to work,” the governor-to-be brags. “We agreed on a sticker, that any vehicle you see that sicker, you allow that sticker. That sticker is on those vehicles his own was sent to him, mine was sent to me. The one by SSS was given to me to give to them; there is no vehicle that left this place without that sticker.”
Obanikoro establishes the link of the group with the executive branch, pointing out that he was present at the behest of President Goodluck. “Am not here for tea party,” he announces. “Am here on a special assignment by the President.”
That assignment: to ensure that Fayose became the governor of Ekiti State by foul means. Omisore, a former Senator and former Deputy Governor of Osun State, was a candidate for the Osun election that would follow Ekiti’s. He seemed present to ensure success of the plan, perhaps in preparation for his own enthronement in his state thereafter.
The rest of the cast seemed to be the finely-honed tools of the operation:
General Momoh, Commander of the 32nd Artillery Brigade in Ekiti, representing the Chief of Staff of the Nigerian Army, and therefore the Nigerian military, in a partisan effort to rig a gubernatorial election.
Olubolade, the Police Minister, representing the Police Force, to make sure the Police did the bidding of the Presidency, and therefore the PDP, in a partisan effort to rig the gubernatorial election.
Obanikoro, having established that he was on the President’s special mission, speaks authoritatively, threateningly, even presidentially:
“I want him picked up [arrested) in the morning!” he says of Bimbo Daramola, [Governor Kayode Fayemi’s Campaign Manager]
“You can’t get promotion without me sitting on top of your military council,” he tells General Momoh. “If I am a happy man tomorrow night [after electoral victory), the sky is your limit.”
General Momoh demonstrates how Nigeria’s military has become not only the fetchers and carriers for the political class, but also its whipping boy. He is the clearest lesson yet why the Nigerian army seems to have lost its way.
“Chief of Army Staff called me,” Fayose tells General Momoh. “He told me, you are in safe hands…[General Momoh] would perform and if you have any issues, call me. He told me and I have made it clear to him [Chief of Army Staff] that I am Jonathan for this election.”
Fayose clearly had been given the maximum authority at the highest level to do whatever he needed to do to become Governor of Ekiti.
General Momoh, apparently clear about his orders emanating from the highest levels, was putting in his shift.
Among other things, he reassures his handlers, “We have strike force…We can start arresting [APC members] in the afternoon…I have almost 40 solders after deployment…We have done a lot of arrest.”
There are arguments running through the audio that General Momoh is not doing enough for the cause, that he does not jump quickly enough when ordered. When he appears to respond, he is roundly cut down.
“Don’t talk to me anyhow,” Abdul Kareem tells him at a point, “Who are you that I am insulting you? If I am in the military, I would be a brigadier or general today…”
“General, relax, sit down,” Olubolade tells him. “You are a soldier man. You are working for us…”
Fayose tells him, “Brigadier-General, I was governor of this state 12 years ago, you [were] probably a captain or major [at that time]…When you talk to this man he would argue from morning to night…My younger brother retired in the army as Brigadier General, when you explain to this man, its argument, argument, argument…”( SaharaReporters established that an elder brother of Mr. Ayodele Fayose named Tunde Fayose, retired as a Brigadier General in the Nigerian Army.
Obanikoro says to the other about General Momoh: “Let us make progress, give him instructions on what we want him to do, let him go and do it. Let us monitor him, and make sure those things are done…”
And directly to the General, he says, “The idea of [our] calling you and not getting reactions, we have to stop that now. You must bring that to an end. When we call you, within the next 5-10 minutes, we need to know what has been done about it…”
Fayose also reads General Momoh the riot act, in the process revealing the length and breadth of the rot of election rigging.
“My people cannot be following you about,” he warns the general. “We don’t follow IG about, we don’t follow police about. The OC MOPOL of this state is working for us, we don’t follow him about. When we call him one hand [and say] ‘we have this problem’, he settles it immediately. Last night, we told him this is happening around the Government House, he cordoned off all the four entrances…”
It is also of great significance that in the middle of the brouhaha about the performance of General Momoh, Fayose says, “We have to call the President and let him know. These people are doing some things.
They would not even serve the police that want to help us. We can’t continue like this!”
With that remark, Fayose confirms that President Jonathan is at the heart of their plan, and can be briefed at any time, perhaps for further resources.
This audio-drama restates the Nigerian electoral equation: that executive power and considerable resources are often used to subvert the will of the people. Here now is proof, finally, that not only was the Ekiti gubernatorial election June 20, 2014 rigged aforethought, it was rigged using the entire weight of federal power, with the Nigerian Army and the police involved in all kinds of illegalities.
The dramatis personae in this embarrassing plan are clear, from President Jonathan down through the PDP machine, but would be expected to attempt to deny everything.
But we have proof, here, about how the Ekiti governorship, on the back of the fable of “stomach infrastructure”, was thoroughly rigged: a plan that had probably been used in the past, and may be used as a model for future elections.
The question is: where is Nigerian law, especially when it is so roundly slapped in the face?
Listen to the evidence as published here, and take a stand.
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by WisdomFlakes: 3:45pm On Feb 06, 2015
@aljharem

Bro, am sorry but you are hopeless. It seems your hatred for Tinubu and APC has so clouded your judgment that can't even tell your left from your right. What is wrong is wrong. Simple! At least Koro didn't deny being at the said gathering, unlike his thuggish sidekick Fayose. How can Sahara Reporters approach Koro and he didn't deem it strategically advantageous to take them to the cleaners by going public with their alleged blackmail intentions?? Koro must really think Nigerians ate stupid. As far as am concerned, Obanikoro is finished politically as a result of this faux pas!

I'll repeat again that the APC be weary of Koro in this upcoming Lagos gubernatorial election, coz he's wicked and way too desperate.

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Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by sidecheek(f): 3:50pm On Feb 06, 2015
The koro (bitterness) wey dey comot your mouth Ni get sequel£
this man can stand in front of the devil and d scale of who lies most would be in his favour£.
Re: Obanikoro Disclaims Audio Recording On Ekiti Elections by Ayatullah(m): 3:59pm On Feb 06, 2015
SHUT UP SIR!
Senator Obanikoro, (Oba awon kokoro) should shut up his mouth and stop denying the audio recording. This man has no credibility. He told Nigerians that the primary that produced Jimi Agbaje was flawed, now that he has been settled with ministerial post he said Jimi Agbaje is the best candidate for PDP. Obanikoro is a big shame!

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