Posted on: 08:29 Mon, 21 Mar 2016



Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele
Fayose has said President
Mohammadu Buhari must be held
accountable for the violence and
loss of lives in Rivers State rerun
elections, saying; “Members of
Buhari’s party, APC, are
emboldened to unleash violence on
the people of Rivers State and other
States in Nigeria because they know
that the president won’t lift a finger
provided his party members are the
ones perpetrating evil.”

The governor said “those who
called the Ekiti State governorship
election in which soldiers and
other security agents made sure
that that there was no violence, no
live was lost during and after the
election and no ballot was snatched
EkitiGate should be asked what the
Rivers election in which eight
people were killed and several
others injured will be called.”

Speaking through his Special
Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media,
Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose
said President Buhari’s way was to
protect his party people, and his
Hausa/Fulani tribe, hence their
boldness to perpetrate evil.

The governor maintained that
President Buhari’s culpability in
the killings in Rivers State and the
manner Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) has
destroyed the legacy of free, fair
and transparent elections
bequeathed on Nigeria by the PDP
government former President
Goodluck Jonathan was not in
doubt.

He said; “Can President Buhari fold
his arms if the people being killed
are from Daura in Katsina State? Is
it that any soul that is not a Fulani
is not important to the President?”

The governor, who challenged the
Military authority to probe the
roles of soldiers in the Rivers State
election, added that; “If they could
probe soldiers who participated in
the Ekiti State governorship
election despite their
commendation by the international
community for providing a safe
environment free of major
incidents, one wonders what they
are going to do in the case of Rivers
State in which peoples were
allegedly killed by soldiers.

“What are they going to call Rivers
election since they called that of
Ekiti State EkitiGate? Are they
going to call Rivers election in
which several people were shot
dead allegedly by security agents,
election inconclusive, fake Results
Sheets produced by
INECRiversBuhariAmaechiGate?”

While calling for the immediate
sack of INEC chairman, Professor
Mahmood Yakubu, the governor
said Nigerians must ask questions
as to how INEC produced Results
Sheets of over 230 polling units
with PDP omitted.

He said if nothing was done to
INEC as presently constituted, 2019
will spell doom for the country’s
democracy, adding that “If 2019
elections will not be messed up and
be made inconclusive, lovers of
democracy in the country must not
keep silent on the mess our
elections have become under
Professor Yakubu.”