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Johnnyessence:
https://leadership.ng/2018/07/15/ekiti-guber-coalition-of-observers-reject-results-to-release-findings-wednesday/

Johnnyessence:
PRESS STATEMENT

Fellow citizens of Ekiti State
Leaders and members of our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
Election Monitoring Groups (Local and International)
Nigerians - Home and Abroad; and
The International Community

Greetings!

I REJECT THE INEC RESULTS OF THE JULY 14, 2018 EKITI GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

You are all aware of the unfortunate and dangerous events of the past 24 hours, in which our governorship election was hijacked by political desperadoes leveraging on “Federal might” to pervert the electoral process, subvert the will of Ekiti people, and viciously steal the mandate willingly and freely given to me on a massive scale by our people.

PDP and I won the election overwhelmingly, receiving more than 70% of lawful votes cast and winning in almost all of the State’s 16 local government areas. I therefore reject the falsified results being bandied by the Independent National Electoral Commission, which purportedly gave the election to the All Progressives Congress and its Candidate; Dr. John Kayode Fayemi.

This is the most audacious electoral robbery of our recent history. It shall not stand. By the grace of Almighty God and your support, I will pursue and regain my mandate.

To rig this election, the APC leveraged on its well-advertised but patently obnoxious and anti-democratic “Federal might” to intimidate, harass, victimize, oppress, and brutalize PDP leaders, members, and the voting public all over Ekiti. This brutal and barbaric process, which started well before the election, did not spare Gov. Ayo Fayose and me; as the whole world had seen and had condemned. It is quite unfortunate that the harassment has continued even after the election.

On Saturday, July 14th, the security agencies and INEC upped the ante, threw all caution to the wind, went back on their promises to be impartial and to conduct credible elections; they sided with APC and Fayemi to the chagrin of our party, myself, and the good people of Ekiti State. Despite the alarm we had earlier raised, the security agencies not only supported but also supervised

• The indiscriminate arrest of our party leaders and agents

• The harassment and brutalization of voters on a massive scale, especially in Ado-Ekiti, Ikere and the suburbs

• Giving cover, tacit as well as active support to thugs imported into Ekiti by APC to snatch ballot boxes, create confusion, cause mayhem, and drive away voters in PDP strongholds

• Giving cover to APC agents as they financially and openly induced voters and bought votes at polling stations; and

• Driving away our polling agents from collation centres and illegal seizure of documents and materials in their possession, among many other infractions.

INEC on its own part reneged on its promise to have results counted, declared, and pasted on the wall of each polling station. There was nowhere INEC transmitted results from the polling centres as earlier promised. Ballot boxes were illegally moved to INEC offices while our agents were disallowed from following the process.

INEC also allowed late voting by APC in hideouts when it was obvious the figures still would not add up after all the infractions mentioned above. Still, when all of these shenanigans still failed to give them the figures they needed, they stopped the announcement of results ward-by-ward, caused a deliberate power outage at the collation centre, with no alternative source of power provided for a long time, and then wrote results in favour of APC and its candidate.

Without doubt, what has played out in Ekiti is the APC template for the 2019 General Election, where they have mapped out Rivers and Akwa Ibom as States they must capture at all costs, like they are now trying to do Ekiti. It is now left for the opposition and opposition figures, most especially presidential hopefuls in 2019, to stand up to be counted in the struggle to roll back President Muhammadu Buhari’s creeping fascism, or throw in the towel without a fight.

This is not just a sad day for Ekiti but also for democracy in Nigeria. Nothing demonstrates this better than the gloom that has enveloped our dear State since they announced their convoluted result. Ekiti mourns! But I ask our people not to be despondent but to keep hope alive, quoting the inimitable Chief MKO Abiola. This is another battle we will fight and win.

In doing this, however, I appeal to all Ekiti sons and daughters to eschew violence. They will try and provoke you but the good Lord will help you to keep calm.

Taking a cue from our great leader and democrat par excellence, ex-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, I wish to reiterate that my ambition is not worth the blood of a single Ekiti son or daughter.

We are not cultists and bloody hounds like them and shall therefore not allow them turn Ekiti into a killing field like they have done in the Middle Belt.
It remains for me to thank Ekiti for standing by me and our great party.

Our royal fathers and the Oloris, teachers, civil servants, Okada riders, Labour leaders, market women, artisans, and students – I appreciate your unflinching support. We thank every Nigerian desirous to see the growth and defence of our renascent democracy.

We thank the international community for their efforts and trust they will not let our people down in this their most trying moment.

Those bent on setting this country on fire for selfish reasons must be restrained and turned back by the international community, mindful of the recent experience of Rwanda, Kosovo, Liberia, Sierra-Leone, Cote D’Ivoire, to mention but a few.

The struggle has just started! I thank you.

Prof. Kolapo Olubunmi Olusola Eleka (Deputy Governor, Ekiti State & PDP governorship Candidate)

slimghost:
Read the comments here and see why Nigerians are sick people. Even when independent observers rejects the scam, some deadbrains still don't get it.
This is why Nigeria will continue to be a hellhole. A country full of imbeciles.

iAudio:
Let's see the outcome

BabaO2:
PDP/Fayose sponsored observers, same utterance from Fayose word for word is what they are echoing.

Johnnyessence:
The Coalition called on the international community to condemn what it called the ‘ political terrorism ’ that took place against the people of Ekiti state on Saturday stressing that their voice against the actions of the Federal Government , INEC and Security agents will help put pressure on the government to do the right thing .

Nellybii:
People that talk like you are obviously completely ignorant of the reality on ground in Ekiti. The election was free and fair. The security agencies on ground were neutral. Fayose is a complete dictator and most Ekiti normal people were patiently waiting for July 14 to be liberated from the occupation of Ekiti by touts, thugs and nonentities. Thank God they are free. Nobody really wanted Fayemi but Ekiti saw that Fayemi was the only option now strong enough to match the strength of Fayose. He was the only one they believed with the capability of silencing Fayose's killer gangs. Ekiti people were living in bondage. They were suffering in silence and praying for Liberation. Hallelujah!!! it has happened.!! Freedom at last.

slimghost:
CLEEN foundation. Have you accepted that you are nothing but a paid deadbrain lout?.

tboy2233:
fayemi only transfer local government workers that's using nce certificate to school because of increasing number of local govt workers and d dwindling education sector as a result of lack of teachers, he never sack any principal, he only join d junior secondary and secondary school which has different principal and in d process one of d principal had to leave d post of a principal to other post, now tell how this is the same as sacking workers

Tecno66:
The same observers rejected Edo governorship election but noting came out of it. Hope this is not a new way of collecting their share? This country tire man.

SenorFax:
Stop believing earsay bro. I grew up here and I witnessed everything. If you where in Ekiti then you won't dispute the fact. We all know Nigerian press and the change of story to favour the readers. Stop believing what you where told, ask from those who experienced it themselves.
You werent aware he sacked all treasurers of LGs then, they took him to court and won the case after 5 of them died from the shock.
Ask from people who where there, don't just stay outside and think you know whats going on inside.

tboy2233:
I'm fully on ground here in Ekiti and I don't listen to hear say,those treasurer must have involved in fraud or something mischievous hence d reason for their sack,he's better than fayose in everything forget about d propaganda

SenorFax:
All of them, at once, so I wonder why they won the case. Shebi they are shady
Oya tell me his achievements if truly you are in Ekiti during Fayemi's tenure.

activistjohnny:
lol but this ones are different from edo now. edo is not ekiti state now.

SenorFax:
All of them, at once, so I wonder why they won the case. Shebi they are shady
Oya tell me his achievements if truly you are in Ekiti during Fayemi's tenure.

AfonjaBoston:
Johnny how market?

tboy2233:
fayemi implemented so many rural development projects,his social security scheme is second to none, payment of 5k stipend to d elderly, payment of 10k to about 3000 youth volunteer corps,traffic warden popular know as as "da grin,ycad program which is aim at involving youth in agriculture,rehabilitation of over 350 secondary school in Ekiti,laptop for all Senior secondary school pupils,payment of waec and neco fees for all Ekiti state students, construction of 5km every year in every local government of Ekiti making it a total of of 20km in every local government in it's 4years,provision of free Health care and rehabilitation of d hospitals in Ekiti, he employed about 2000 teacher and he's d first gov to implement d new minimum wage in Nigeria,rural allowance for teachers is also there,he resuscitated ire burnt brick, ikogosi warm spring and also attract many foreign Agency to Ekiti... pls make ur research about d afformention and u will know why it's necessary for us to kick fayose and his stooge out of Ekiti