The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State said it has printed and distributed 250,000 copies of audio and video recordings of the details of how the June 21, 2014 governorship election was allegedly rigged in favour of Governor Ayodele Fayose.
A statement by the State Publicity Secretary of the party, Taiwo Olatubosun, said the recording revealed a grand conspiracy coordinated by some officers of the Nigerian Army.
According to him, the party took the step to let the world know the truth about Ekiti election ‘miracle’ where “a governor, with unrivaled sterling performance, failed to win a single local government out of the 16 in the state, including his own, to give victory to a man, who two years earlier, lost a senatorial election in the state.”
The statement said, “Details of corrupt practices by soldiers as contained in the tape lends credence to the inclusion of the military as a defendant at the Ekiti State Election Petitions Tribunal, challenging the return of Fayose as the winner of the election.”
“In the tape secretly recorded by Army Captain Sagir Koli, voices of the participants in the election fraud were heard talking about operational details and giving instructions on how to help Fayose win the election. Koli went on exile after releasing the tape.
“Another group, an NGO, had two weeks ago produced 200,000 copies and distributed them around the world with copies sent to the United Nations, African Union and ECOWAS secretariats.
“Nigerians and indeed decent people of the world will hear of how a Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army was thoroughly disgraced by brigands and lawless individuals in PDP who should ordinarily quiver when an army corporal gives orders.
“Nigerians will hear a Brigadier-General talking of how he set up “Strike Forces” to be unleashed on APC leaders and supporters to cow them to submission to ensure victory for Fayose.
“It is a pity and tragedy of our history that a man who is supposed to be in chains and drilled in frog jump by a Nigerian Army recruit for his crime is the one assuring a serving Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army of promotion if he could help PDP in the dishonourable enterprise of poll fraud in favour of a man with several alleged criminal cases in courts.
“Nigerians will hear Fayose and other co-conspirators talking and boasting that the top echelons of the Nigerian Army and their Commander-In-Chief were the chief executioners of Ekiti poll fraud. The world will hear Fayose talking about how he collected soft copies of INEC’s sensitive election materials and got them printed to give him victory.”
The APC spokesman said the revelation by Fayose that he collected soft copies of INEC sensitive materials and got them printed had confirmed the party’s claim that photochromic papers were used to fix Ekiti election in his favour.
Olatubosun urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to allow voters bring their cameras to polling centres on election day to record full election procedures to guide against those still bent on fraudulent practices at the polls.
