By Omotolani Oresanwo
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has condemned the tribunal judgment nullifying the election of Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike saying; “The seeming collaboration between the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government and a section of the judiciary is worrisome and portends grave danger to the corporate existence of Nigeria. This is worse than corruption that the president claimed to be fighting.”
He noted that the desperation to take over the South South States of Rivers and Akwa Ibom through the backdoor by President Mohammadu Buhari and his APC, in preparation for 2019, using the judiciary may cause anarchy in the country.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor accused the APC and President Buhari of another grand plot to rig the forthcoming Kogi and Bayelsa States governorship election, using the newly appointed Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and the Director General of Department of State Security (DSS), Alhaji Lawal Daura.
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Fayose stressed that, “the desperation to take over the South-South states of Rivers through the backdoor by President Muhammadu Buhari and his APC, in preparation for 2019, using the judiciary may cause anarchy in the country.”
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the Governor accused the APC and President Buhari of another grand plot to rig the forthcoming Kogi and Bayelsa states governorship election using the newly appointed Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and the Director General of Department of State Security (DSS), Alhaji Lawal Daura.
Fayose reminded the President of the wild, wild west of the mid 60’s and the 1983 saga between late Chief Adekunle Ajasin and Chief Akin Omoboriowo which was orchestrated by the then Federal Government said, “the consequences of the orchestrated plot to prevent the people of Western Region from having the government of their choice through a fair and just election in 1964 should be a watchful example for Nigerians in general and President Buhari in particular.”
He appealed to the people of the South South not to be intimidated and discouraged, expressing hope that the appellate court will protect the wish of the people of Rivers State.
