Ekiti election audio clips: Go to court, Fayose dares Fayemi

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose has challenged ex-gov­ernor Kayode Fay­emi to move beyond cheap publicity in the media and produce the soldiers, who allegedly rigged the June 21 governorship election in his (Fayose’s) favour.

Fayose, who contested the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), contended that the sol­diers must be able to explain and produce evidence of how and where they committed the electoral offence in a court of competent jurisdiction.
Fayose said: “The soldiers should come to give evidence and explain where and how they were instructed to rig the election, whether they were instructed to thumb print ballot papers, or they were instructed to snatch ballot boxes, how many of such bal­lot papers they thumb printed and the number of boxes they snatched.”
Fayose was speaking with journalists in Ado-Ekiti yes­terday, while reacting to Fay­emi’s interview aired on an Akure, Ondo State-based AD­ABA 88.9 FM on Thursday last week. He declared that he was ready for the soldiers Fay­emi would be bringing to the court, saying, “rather than go­ing to the press to make noise, Fayemi should head to court.”
An audio clip allegedly au­thored by one Captain Sagir of the Nigerian Army, exposing plot to manipulate the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State went viral in the social media a week ago.
Fayose, who lampooned Fayemi for latching on the tape to explain away his de­feat, said: “Fayemi is only playing to the gallery. For those who heard my voice, it was I accusing General Aliyu Momoh of colluding with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the election.
“The problem Fayemi is having is the defeat he suf­fered in the 16 local govern­ment areas of the state. He is yet to recover from the shock, and he is fretting over the prospect of going down in po­litical history of Nigeria as the first sitting governor to suffer such monumental defeat.
“The defeat suffered by Fay­emi in that election, will in no distant future become a case study by political scholars in universities across the country.
“All that Fayemi is trying to do is to rubbish the election adjudged best by local and in­ternational observers. I see him simply as a rabble-rouser.
“I used to have respect for him before now, but events af­ter the election have exposed his true colour that he is not a democrat, but a pretender. If APC doesn’t win, the election is rigged, but once the victory goes their way, it is the most credible election in the world. And these are people claiming to have schooled under Barak Obama.”