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Card Reader Preloading: Fayose Confronts INEC, Police, DSS With Video by Midgut(m): 9:41am On Jul 04, 2018 |
The Ekiti State Governor , Ayodele Fayose , on Tuesday , confronted the Independent National Electoral Commission with video evidence of pre - loading of card readers in the state . The challenge came a day after a National Commissioner with INEC , Mrs Aminat Zakari , challenged the governor to prove allegations that she had conspired with three others to pre - load card readers , supply faulty card readers and provide ballot papers for stuffing of ballot boxes. Fayose also tackled the Commissioner of Police , Mr Ahmed Bello and the Director of the Department of State Services , Mrs Promise Ihenacho , for allegedly deploying security aides of former governor Kayode Fayemi to Ekiti State to rig the July 14 governorship election . The governor pointed out that Fayemi ’ s ex - Chief Security Officer , Hakeem Abiola , and former Aide de camp , Adeyemi Ajayi, were already in the state to coordinate indiscriminate arrest of the members of the opposition . Fayose spoke at a town hall meeting organised by the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room for governorship candidates in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday . The Chairman on the occasion , Mr Clement Nwakwo, said the essence of the meeting was to extract assurances from INEC , security agencies and candidates that the coming election would be credible . He said , “We are going to hold INEC accountable for whatever happens and that is why it is good for the security to be helpful and we know they won ’ t default in this regard. ” The governor tendered video evidence of people allegedly pre - loading card readers in Akure ahead of the July 14 governorship election to the National Commissioner in charge of Ekiti , Osun and Oyo states , Mr Solomon Soyebi . Fayose said , “ This is the evidence of people pre- loading card readers in Akure . Any officer who is seen to be biased should be relieved of any sensitive assignment . ” But dismissing the video , Soyebi said the card readers to be used for the election were already in Ekiti and had not been configured . “ I know the information will come to you , but they are fake . The card readers will only start working on the day of the election. A lot of people will be giving you information , a lot of them will be fake , ” he said . Also , the INEC Chairman , Prof . Mahmood Yakub, described the governor’ s allegations as untrue and baseless . Yakub in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Rotimi Oyekanmi, stressed that it was impossible for anyone to rig the election in favour of any candidate . Rather than malign them at press conferences , Yakub urged the governor to make any evidence of wrongdoing available to the Commission for appropriate action . ” “ We wish to emphasise that it is impossible for the Commission ’ s officials, any individual or group for that matter to pre- load the Smart Card Readers or provide ballot papers for stuffing as alleged , ” he said . Yakub explained that the SCRs performed three functions : identifying , verifying and authenticating the voter and the PVC , adding that it could only function on the election day . “ In addition to the results sheets that we issue to party agents at the Polling Units and at every level of collation , the Commission also deliberately introduced Form EC 60 E to show election results at the Polling Units , which is the most important level . This form is pasted at every Polling Unit after collation , ” he added . INEC reiterated its resolve to conduct a credible , free and fair election that would be a model for other elections in Nigeria . Source: http://punchng.com/card-reader-fayose-confronts-inec-police-dss-with-video-evidence/ |
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