A former Secretary of the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Dr. Temitope Aluko, has alleged that
former President Goodluck Jonathan gave Governor Ayo
Fayose N4.7bn cash to prosecute the June 21, 2014
governorship election in the state.

Aluko said the money was used to defeat the then Governor
of the state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, who was the governorship
candidate of the All Progressives Congress.
Aluko, who spoke with reporters in Abuja on Sunday, also
revealed how the PDP rigged the governorship election.
Aluko, who said he was part of the team that prosecuted the
election, added that he was the Chairman of the Intelligence
and Security Committee for the Fayose Campaign
Organisation.

He explained that he handled the waiver Fayose got from
the PDP at the national level to enable him to qualify to take
part in the governorship primary.
To buttress the roles he played in the emergence of Fayose,
Aluko said he delivered the congresses that produced
Fayose and was also the governor’s principal witness at the
Election Petitions Tribunal.

He said Jonathan initially gave Fayose $2m in March 2014
for the primary election, pointing out that this money was
collected at the NNPC Towers, Abuja.
Aluko said, “It was about $35m, which is about N4.7bn he
gave us for the real election and for the primaries, he
released $2m to Fayose. I have details of all I am saying
and I was present when they brought the money and it was
Senator Musiliu Obanikoro that brought the money, the
$35m, which he delivered to Fayose at Spotless Hotel.

“I can name eight people that were there. We were all there
because he said he would want us to take delivery so that
there will be transparency and accountability.
“Let me just stop there for now, but I am just trying to say
that both the security and the funding came from the
Presidency and even the primaries money we collected at
the NNPC Towers in Abuja here and they took $300,000
from the $2m for courier which was on Monday, 23rd of
March 2014 and we took it to Prince and Princess, Fayose’s
house, but the N4.7bn came into Ekiti on June 17, 2014.”
He said the $35m was “taken to a bureau de change in
Onitsha where it was converted to N4.7bn.”

In his reaction on Sunday, Fayose said he would not take
issue with Aluko because he was (Aluko) bitter, adding that
he got money from different sources.
He, however, did not deny that the former President gave
him the amount being alleged by his accuser.
Fayose’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and
New Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka, said Aluko was already
beclouded by his desperation to seek revenge against
Fayose because of the governor’s refusal to make him his
Chief of Staff, such that he (Aluko) was not mindful of
committing the criminal offence of perjury.

“As per his claim that $37m was given to the governor for
the election, the governor got financial support from various
sources as it is usual of anyone contesting election and it is
not for us to begin to advertise in the media the level of
support the governor received from individuals, corporate
organisations or groups.
“However, if money belonging to the APC is missing and
they suspect that the money was stolen by Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan to fund Ekiti State governorship election, they can
approach the EFCC.”

The governor’s aide asked whether it was also soldiers that
rigged the 2015 presidential, senatorial, House of
Representatives and state House of Assembly elections that
the APC lost in Ekiti.

He said, “For Aluko to be taken seriously, he must first have
to report himself to the police to be tried for perjury and
committed to prison for three years, since what he is now
saying is different from what he said under oath at the
election tribunal, being the only witness called by the PDP
and Fayose.
“If after giving evidence under oath at the tribunal that the
election was free, fair and credible and that security agents,
including soldiers, performed their duties creditably well,
saying something else more than one year after is
admittance by Aluko himself that he is not a stable
character.

“They will probably need to pay INEC to tell Nigerians that
an election it conducted, in which an incumbent governor
lost in his own local government, was not credible.”
Giving an insight into how the military and other security
agencies were drafted into the Ekiti election, Aluko said the
Ekiti PDP and Fayose first ensured that the headship of the
security apparatus in Nigeria was changed.
He said that the former President agreed with Fayose on
the need to change the leadership of the nation’s security
apparatus because of his desperation to win the presidential
election.

Aluko added that Jonathan quickly summoned a security
meeting at the Presidential Villa for the purpose of the
election.
He said, “Those at the meeting were the former Chief of
Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh; then Chief of
Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah; and a former
National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.
“Others included Fayose, Senator Iyiola Omisore, then
Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan and Minister of
State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro.
“At that meeting, the former President made it clear to the
ex-Chief of Defence Staff that Fayose would stand for him
(as Commander-in-Chief) in terms of providing security for
the election.”

According to Aluko, Jonathan’s directive made the military
chiefs to take orders from Fayose throughout the duration
of the election.
Aluko said Fayose then approached the former Commander
of the Army Brigade in Akure, one Brig. Gen. Dikko to take
charge of the election for the PDP.
But Dikko, he said, rejected the proposal, adding that the
army officer “stated bluntly that he would not be available
for such operation.”
“So, Fayose sponsored a petition against him which led to
his replacement with another officer (name withheld) who
was amenable to our plans.”
This, he said, made it easy for the PDP to use soldiers to
suppress the opposition APC.
“We went into the election with 1,040 recognised soldiers
and another batch of 400 unrecognised soldiers brought
from Enugu by a serving senator from the South-East(name
withheld).

“In addition, we raised 44 special strike teams brought in
Toyota Hilux buses from Abuja and Onitsha. We made
special stickers for the vehicles that conveyed members of
the strike team and we gave each of them a black
handband for identification.
“Each strike team was made up of 10 members headed by
a soldier and comprising soldiers, policemen, DSS
operatives and Civil Defence corps. They were detailed to
attack and arrest prominent APC chieftains in all the local
governments.

“We set up anchorage, mainly in residential houses, in
every local government where the strike team members
collected their welfare and other allowances.
“To encourage the strike team members, we gave them
orders to share money and other valuables they could lay
their hands on in the houses of the APC chieftains they
raided.

“Then we set up detention camps, mainly in primary
schools where most of the APC chieftains were detained.
Others were detained in police stations where the DPOs
were friendly with us. We let them off after the election was
over.
“A day to the election, we used the military to block all
routes in the local governments and prevented the APC
chieftains, including former Rivers State Governor, Mr.
Rotimi Amaechi, from coming into Ekiti.
“So, we ensured that no APC chieftain was in sight on
election day. We provided polling agents for the APC in
most of the polling units so we had no problem getting
them to sign election results in the units.
“All these local and foreign observers that described the
election as free and fair only witnessed the voting exercise
on election day without knowing what transpired before the
voting.”

Aluko, who was the Chief Returning Officer and signed the
results of the election, said he was fully involved in the plot
with Fayose from the very beginning.
According to him, he was forced to divulge the information
because Fayose betrayed him, moreover, he said his
conscience was disturbing him.
He said, “I am using this medium to apologise to Ekiti
people for bringing in someone like Fayose and I have done
that at many meetings and I want to stand up to many of
those things.

“Before the election, Fayose, Femi Bamishile and I jointly
swore with the Holy Bible on a sharing formula after we
must have won the election. We agreed that Fayose would
be governor, Bamishile his deputy and I, as Chief of Staff.
“But the moment he got into office, Fayose reneged on the
agreement and left me in the lurch. More worrisome is the fact
that Fayose has derailed from the original Ekiti project we
envisaged.”

Source : http://www.punchng.com/how-we-rigged-ekiti-poll-for-fayose-ex-pdp-secretary/.

To b sincere, I am tired of this country. So, no credible election can take place without some underhand deals. If so, we av a lot of work to do in this country!

The wailers should rise up to defend this PDP internal exposed deal by herself. we have no credible election. Fayose over to..am waiting...

Another madman on the loose. You and your group can't bring Fayose down no matter how hard you try. Fayose my role model, the people governor. We stand with you carry on.

Tope I knew you were not going to make chief of staff... Since you refused to remit a sum of money you got in Abuja..... That was the day you nailed your casket politically..... Just because fayose bought a house in Abuja with his own collection without getting to Ekiti.... From a fund meant for the State PDP campaigns.....


You have not finished the confession...... We want to know who killed Aderiye...
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Cc
Modath.

Why are talking about this now. See down

No wonder Fayose tried his best to deliver Ekiti for Jonathan. God catch u