…..PDP rejects election result as APC Reps hail Fayemi
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday congratulated its candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on his election as the governor of Ekiti State.
The party’s spokesman, Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi, noted in a statement sent to Frontline News Online, that Fayemi ran an effective and positive campaign focusing on his agenda of rebuilding the economy of the state and returning its lost values of integrity, prudence and decency.
The statement read in part: “The Party commends the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security agencies, local and international observers, as well as other stakeholders, for their admirable role in making the Ekiti gubernatorial election one in which the people’s will has prevailed.
“We thank the Ekiti electorate for voting en masse for our Party’s candidate. This is a demonstration of their trust and confidence in Dr. Kayode Fayemi’s ability to deliver on his campaign promises and a rejection of the crude and pedestrian politics of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“We assure the people of Ekiti, and indeed all Nigerians, that our Party is best placed to move the country forward and resolve the seemingly intractable problems that have held us back”.
………APC Reps Hail Fayemi
Also the APC Caucus in the House of Representatives has described Fayemi’s victory as well deserved.
The Majority Leader of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, in a personally signed statment further described Fayemi’s victory on Saturday to be a landslide as he picked 12 out of 16 LGAs.
.…….PDP rejects Ekiti election process
But the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it rejects, “in its entirety whatever outcome is being concocted by the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies, in the governorship election in Ekiti state”.
According to the spokesman of the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, “the entire process was characterized by open alteration of results, brutalization of innocent citizens, barefaced cruelty and intimidation of our members by security agencies, is a brazen assault against democracy and a direct subversion of the will of the people which is completely unacceptable”.
He stated thay the PDP is armed with the details of manipulations by the APC, which was aided by security agencies and “compromised INEC officials to rig the election, particularly, the audacious alteration and substitution of election results in favour of the APC at the collation centers amidst the brutalization of our agents”.
“The PDP also has details of all the polling units where we won, mostly with very wide margin ahead of the APC, only for the security agencies to aid the swapping and alteration of such results with those smuggled in by the APC at the collation centers”, he added.
The statement read in part: “It is instructive to state that all the issues we raised ahead of the election, including the conspiracy between the APC, some compromised INEC officials and security agencies; the importation of thugs from other states by the APC; the use of brutal force against our members and the alteration of results in favour of the APC, have all manifested.
“The PDP holds strongly that there is no way our democracy can survive with an electoral process such as this, being witnessed today in Ekiti state under President Muhammadu Buhari and the current INEC.
“This bare-faced subversion of the will of the people is a clear recipe for a serious crisis and we invite Nigerians and the international community to hold President Buhari and his APC as well as the INEC Chairman and heads of security agencies in Nigeria responsible for any breakdown of law and order in Ekiti state as a result of this election”.
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