Ekiti Election ‘Scientifically Rigged’ By APC – S’West PDP

The South West Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of “scientifically rigging” the Ekiti State gubernatorial election where its candidate emerged winner.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced that APC’s governorship candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi, defeated Professor Kolapo Olusola-Eleka of the PDP by polling 197, 459 votes against the latter’s 178, 121 votes at the election that held on Saturday.

But reacting to its party’s loss at the poll, the South West PDP accused the ruling party of conniving with men of the Nigeria Police to swindle its candidate out of his electoral victory.

The opposition party made the claim in a statement by its National Vice Chairman, Dr. Eddy Olafeso, who spoke with reporters in Akure, Ondo State.

Olafeso said, “We have witnessed what happened in Ekiti State , despite our crying and screaming to the Nigerian people that the APC government was coming to Ekiti to destroy and disrupt democracy, to rig elections and to muscle us out and they eventually scientifically carried out what we have been warning the Nigerian people about.

“What transpired in Ekiti is not democracy but a complete rape of democracy and the will of the people. It is rather unfortunate we witnessed this despite the fact that APC bequeathed to this nation.

“This is a prelude to what we should be expecting in 2019, we have been rigged out, we have been muscled out with the connivance of the police force in particular. The police gave coverage for the open corruption that APC stalwarts got involved in Ekiti State.

“They chased all our agents away and put on their neck PDP agents tags and signed across all documents for them but one day truth will come out. We rejected in totality the outcome of Ekiti election.

“This is the limit of corruption and we warned before the election that the Abacha loot that is being taken and distributed without any appropriation is going to find its way to Ekiti. It was like a trading place and they turned our democracy upside down.

“This is rather unfortunate and they are going to severely pay for it because this history will not go unchecked and we are going to do everything possible to ensure that we cleanse the whole country as soon as we come into power in 2019,″ he said.