₦airaland Forum

PassingShot:
In law, PDP will need to provide hard evidence that APC indeed bought votes. How do you realistically prove that?

PassingShot:
Since conclusion of the gubernatorial election in Ekiti state, we have been inundated with allegations by PDP/Eleka/Fayose and indeed their sympathizers that the APC-led FG rigged the election. The absurd thing about the allegations is the observation that majority of those alleging fraud are neither residents nor indigene of the state. Most are from the eastern part of Nigeria!

Having waited for two days after the election observing claims by the losing camp, I have come to the conclusion that the election was lost by Fayose and it could not have been rigged for the following reasons:

1. Owing of Salaries
Not a single person has denied that Fayose last paid any form of salary or allowance to the civil servants of the state in 2017!. We were told the last time the state's workers received their salary was in December last year despite the fact that the state regularly gets her monthly allocation from the FG in addition to bail outs and Paris Club refunds. If this was not enough reason to vote Fayose/Eleka out in your books, please check yourself. And don't compare this to Osun where the state government reached an agreement with the workers to pay half salary since a drastic reduction in the state's income. That was a mutual agreement even though it's not an ideal situation.

2. PDP is Strong in Ekiti
We have largely agreed in the past that rigging is only possible where you are strong and the opposition is weak (even though this is not 100% correct). PDP is more than a formidable party in Ekiti and it is the government in power controlling all the 16 local governments in the state. With all commissioners and boots on the ground, only barefaced rigging as we saw in 2014 against Fayemi/APC could have made rigging successful in the last election. This fact that low-level rigging could not be enough for a strong party was the reason PDP did barefaced rigging in 2014 where military was used to arrest opposition figures and muzzle the judiciary. No matter your insinuation, no one can claim anything like we witnessed in 2014 occurred in the last election in Ekiti.

3. Muzzling of Rivals/opponents
Fayose succeeded in pocketing Ekiti's PDP to the point that he literally became the party chairman, the Speaker of Ekiti HOA and even the judge in some instances. The result of that behaviour was Fayose's imposition of Eleka on the party culminating into losing some erstwhile political allies to the opposition (APC) including decamping of 2 senators, the state's HOA Chief Whip and some other leading party's top politicians few days to the election. If this tells us anything, it is the fact that PDP as a party has not embraced internal democracy and still prefers the old way of imposition which largely caused it the presidency in 2015. No wahala, make dem continue. We will also continue to tell them that electorate can not be enslaved with this attitude of theirs.


4. Spontaneous Jubilation in Parts of Ekiti
If by now you are still doubting that the election was not rigged, you only need to watch videos of spontaneous jubilation in some parts of the state that greeted the announcement of Fayemi as the next governor of the state. That there has not been any protest since the result of the election was announced is an indication that majority of electorate prefer Fayemi to PDP/Eleka. Check videos on FB and Youtube to clear your doubt please.

5. No Hard Evidence of Rigging Has Surfaced Till Date
I firmly believe that if any rigging took place, PDP and its agents accross the polling stations of the state will have come up with photos nad videos of such manipulation. In this age of advanced technology, it won't be difficult for the party's agents to have photos/videos of result sheet at the collation centers (from each polling booth to the state's collation center). I am sure if anything with a semblance of rigging exists, PDP will not waste a second to release it to the public before even heading to court!. Fayose and PDP knew they were losing the election, hence the childish displays by the thugnor before the election to curry undeserved sympathy from the electorate.


To those who think that celebrating thugery of Fayose and attacking the president and/or APC at any given opportunity is a sign of strength or boldness/bravery, they need to start understanding that people on the street are not stupid to buy that childish gimmicks. Nigerians largely know who brought them to the situation we are currently getting out of. They know who their enemies are. However, if they still believe in shamelessly engaging in online abuse and attack, they will continue to be told in the right language at the right time that we are not fools and will not allowed to be taken for a ride.

Lastly, APC-led government and indeed PMB have proved over and over again that the voice of the masses will count even if they find themselves on the losing side. Examples include the senatorial election in Osun won by Adeleke of PDP, a senatorial election in Kogi won by PDP and the gubernatorial election in Anambra won by APGA. If you still call PMB a tyrant after all of these examples, you need to examine yourself and repent before you die of chronic hatred for the man trying to rescue us all.

Cheers!

Amitez:
Tribunal do not accept hearsay, rather hard evidence abd there are tons of video and audio recording flying around

Lordlestat:
Nope

This didn't have any effect ,he isn't the fisrt to alienate anyone , tinubu was against OBJ and the entire PDP run government but won re-election and even ensured Fashola won

APC rigged him out that's all

He hoped popularity would win but that works in countries with strong institutions where elections are free and fair and not where the electoral body in under the imcumbent

He lost same way GEJ lost by rigging

I see Nigerians say they voted out GEJ and I laugh

Votes don't count in Nigeria , rigging does

APC know how to rig , GEJ believed buhari was always loosing so he would loose again but reality kicked him in the balls

Buhari and APC had been perfecting rigging from State levels and did same in the federal

In 2019 your votes won't count either APC will rig and win again, unfortunately

alpha2zulu:
Buhari will die a painful death

midolian:
Attention seeking mountain head

If election favours you, your vote counts..if it doesn't, your vote doesn't count. Typical mentality of a man filled with hate for no reason

When you are in the East giving predictions of an election going on in Southwest online, this is what you get.

We don't reason the way you guys reason. We don't hate for no reason.

Herdsmen:
Eleka will reclaim his mandate next year..
Supreme Court has got the finals..

papoudaupolos:
This is wat Ipob miscreants shouting since morning.

papoudaupolos:
This is wat good people of this country are saying since morning

papoudaupolos:
Me dealing with Pigs since morning

nairavsdollars:
Now that he has been elected as the next governor of Ekiti, how will Kayode Fayemi handle the issue of herdsmen in Ekiti? Can he be decisive against them like Fayose did or handle them with kid gloves so as to be a good boy to President Buhari?

Peterdreddblog:
Why the high number of forces redeployed to the state.. For the election... The support is much and vivid

papoudaupolos:
I'm more than happy to hear that you are in this miserable state today. To God be the glory.

Light will continue to shine over darkness
True God will vanquish the false God
Lies will grow but not blossom
Hatred is a disease
We ll always triumph over our enemies.
Failure is our enemies potion here and hereafter

WOE ONTO OUR ENEMIES
may God bring peace and stability btwn all nations in this country

Peterdreddblog:
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The result of the just concluded election in Ekiti state shows a whole lot of things. .

Fayose, the incumbent governor of Emotions state is known to be a bone in the neck of the federal government..

Fayose has tackled President Buhari in several occasions in the time past. . . and seems to have gone Scot free..

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The support shown by the federal government in the just concluded election shows they want to punish Gov. Fayose for the things he's done before..

Fed Govt. came full force to support Prof John Kayode Fayemi to beat Gov. Fayose in Ekiti state..

Recall... Prof. Kayode Fayemi resigned as a minister to contest for a Governoship election of a state he had won before. ..

Opinion : The huge support of fed. govt. for Fayemi to emerge is to punish Fayose for his alterances to the fed govt in the time past..

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What do you think?

sonsomegrigbo:
'GOD TOLD ME EXPRESSLY THAT APC IS FINISHED IN NIGERIA AND YOU WILL SEE HOW GOD WILL DISGRACE THEM IN EKITI.

THEY WILL LOSE HEAVILY'


-APOSTLE JOHNSON SULEMAN, MAY 2018

Valfrankie:
If you think the results as announced by INEC is a true reflection of the People's mandate, then you are yet to really understand what the party, APC represents