Revisiting the Photo-chromically rigged Ekiti election ekiti/ekitinews/display_search.php?news_source=&news_id=111245 I am always beside myself when I see the uninitiated continue to insult, indeed, completely rip apart, a doughty, decent and extremely respectable Ekiti people, unfortunate victims of PDP’s unprecedented, in Nigeria, though happened in Zimbabwe’s 2013 Presidential election, photo-chromically rigged election of 21, June 2014, being described in very nauseating ways. There is hardly any insulting epithet under the sun Ekiti has not been painted with arising from PDP’s irreverent rationalizations for its earth shaking ‘victory’ in that election: an election in which the thief foolishly stole more than the owner, with the sitting, performing governor (Fayemi has outperformed all Ekiti governors, dead or alive) not winning a single Local Government area and the vote of the ‘winner’, Ayodele Fayose, warts and all, almost doubling the governor’s in the mistaken belief that the lie becomes more believable if the margin of victory is humongous. So successful were they that my friend, a world reputed intellectual and proud Ekiti icon , was pained enough to do a poem, rather a dirge, for Motherland’s fabled love of stomach. Fortunately, now that the APC has headed to the tribunal, the world will soon come to know the details of this latest ‘Watergate’. The PDP and ts government have so negatively impacted the country that they would do just about anything to hold on to power or steal it. Dr Jide Oluwajuyitan recently reminded us that Nigeria now generates about 4500MW of electricity as against 4200 MW it had a whole twelve years ago when the late Dr Olusegun Agagu was Minister of Power and Energy and that was after injecting between $24 -$50 billion while another writer regaled his readers as follows: ‘Former President Olusegun Obasanjo condemned GEJ’s government. Muhammadu Buhari criticized GEJ’s government. Maitama Sule expressed worries over GEJ’s leadership style. Mrs Hilary Clinton described GEJ’s government as corrupt. Senator John McCain said there is no government in Nigeria. Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni mocked GEJ on Boko Haram. Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe described Nigeria as a corrupt nation. The question is: Are all these people ignorant of what good governance is? And all that was long before we sank into this Watergate, this photochromically rigged Ekiti election. And I ask, is there a level to which this government will not degenerate? Many, incidentally and surprisingly including the U.S embassy in Nigeria, have commended INEC for conducting what they call a transparent election in Ekiti. I can forgive the U.S having been accustomed to Nigeria’s shambolic elections of ballot box snatching, murder and mayhem which were patently absent this time around, but I feel certain America will by now be chuckling to itself saying: we were had! Which election did PDP not rig? Is it the election which Olu Falae contested at the tribunal, or the one Buhari took to the tribunal and in which, to save President Jonathan an Appeal Court President had to be hurriedly sacrificed? Back to Ekiti, is it the 2007 governorship election and the rerun which the Appeal Court held were both egregiously stolen by the PDP? It is obvious PDP did not overtly rig the Ekiti election because it has long ensured ‘victory’ when Obanikoro flew into the Akure Airport with his strange ‘luggage’, later allegedly ferried to Ekiti in a bullion van. To dispute this, Obanikoro, Jelili Adesiyan and the Anambra perpetual gubernatorial wannabe, none of them Ekiti, should tell the world what their mission was in Ekiti during the election. Obvously the vehicle arrested a few days to the Ekiti election conveying items from INEC’s Ado-Ekiti office was most probably ferrying the batch of vanishing ink to be used in Osun which must have accounted for Omisore’s insistence, and INEC’s subsequent acquiescence, in the transfer of the state’s Resident Commissioner. This is one reason APC must insist on the use of indelible ink in the Osun election as specifically stipulated by the Electoral Law. Otherwise, the party must make such available at all the polling booths if INEC decides to continue to act illegally by providing vanishing ink as it did in Ekiti. I paraphrase below, the argument of Hon Bimbo Daramola, MHR, Director General of the Kayode Fayemi campaign, which should put the final nail on the coffin of this baloney called stomach infrastructure and the more asinine one that a governor who put in place the first ever welfare scheme for the elderly in Nigeria, giving 25,000 Ekiti elders a N5000 monthly stipend ,who employed about 10,000 youths through such schemes as the highly acclaimed Youth Commercial Agriculture (YCAD) which has seen a trained Medical Doctor turn a farmer, and one whose annual budgets are made bottom up by going to every Ekiti community to ascertain their critical needs, and much more, was aloof and disconnected from the citizenry: ‘I dare say 95 percent of those who are so confident in their oracular postulation neither have the hard facts about the Fayemi years in Ekiti nor the numerous initiatives that were aimed at restoring Ekiti back from its ruins. It is obviously unknown to many that no administration treated Ekiti teachers better than Fayemi’s regardless of the competency test which was badly misunderstood. Critics should therefore go and compare the various administrations since the creation of the state. Today they say teachers are against Fayemi despite their regular promotions, payment of rural location allowance, core subjects allowance, 27.5% pecuniary allowance and both local and foreign training. I am sure the election was not won because of stomach infrastructure or rice, he says, certainly not! Otherwise it would mean that all of a sudden, 25000 senior citizens suddenly became memory fatigued or brain dead and forgot the man who made government have such impact on their lives,10000 volunteers who have been on monthly financial support for the past 36 months’ lost their minds’ and the people of Ikogosi who play host to local and international tourists in their thousands equally temporarily forgot the man who made the Ikogosi Tourist Resort what it
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:03:40 +0000