The Ekiti state Governor, Ayo Fayose has denied allegations of massive rigging levelled against him by the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretary in the state, Dr. Temitope Aluko.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the Governor said "For
Aluko to be taken seriously, he must first have to report himself to
the police to be tried for perjury and committed to prison for three
years, since what he is now saying is different from what he said under
oath at the Election Tribunal being the only witness called by the PDP
and Governor Fayose.
"If after giving
evidence under oath at the tribunal that the Election was free, fair and
credible and that security agents, including soldiers performed their
duties creditably well, saying something else more than one year after
is an admittance by Aluko himself that he is not a stable character.
"It
is also a demonstration of the fact that giving the right offer
tomorrow, the same Aluko can also address the press tomorrow to deny all
what he said today. He can even deny his own existence since he can
deny what he said under oath just because he was not made Chief of
Staff.”
Fayose described Aluko’s allegations as a distraction from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He
further stated that the former PDP secretary is angry because his
request to become the Governor’s Chief of Staff was rejected.
The statement also said "Therefore,
we won't bother ourselves, responding to what a political parasite
chooses to say because he wouldn't have said what he is now saying today
if he had been made Chief of Staff to Governor Fayose and it is sure
that if he is called today, and given the right offer, he will begin to
sing another song.
"Also, the APC bad losers in Ekiti State should
know that it will take more than recruiting and paying a disgruntled TKO
Aluko to discredit an election adjudged by both local and international
observers, including the United States government as free, fair and
credible. They will probably need to pay INEC to tell Nigerians that an
election it conducted, in which an incumbent governor lost in his own
local government was not credible.”
The Governor also admitted that he got financial support from various sources.
The embattled former secretary of the Ekiti state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Temitope Aluko, opened a can of worms, revealing how Governor Fayose used the Nigerian Army to rig the governorship elections in the state.
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