The Olusola Oke Campaign Organization on Tuesday raised another fresh
alarm over imminent plans by Kaduna State Governor , Mallam El-Rufai , the
Ogun State Governor, Mr Ibikunle Amosu and other top officials in the
Presidency to subvert the popular wish of the people by rigging Saturday’s
Governorship election in Ondo State with plans to compromise officials of
the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC)
Making this disclosure in Akure, the Chairman, Media and Publicity of the
Organization, Mr Kolawole Olabisi, disclosed that another in the desperate
act of the these powerful Nigerians in their vaunted bid to win the
election for the Candidate of the All Peoples Congress (APC) at all cost
was again perfected at a meeting in Abuja on Monday with El-Rufai
presiding.
According to Olabisi, the meeting was held with a very high ranking INEC
official (name withheld) who was mandated to ensure that the election must
be skewed in favour of the APC candidate, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu no matter
what.
His words: We are crying out again, and for the umpteenth time, that top
officials of the APC masquerading under the cloak of working on the
instructions of the Presidency have sworn that they will annex Ondo State
by rigging the Governorship election coming up on Saturday in favour of
their protégé.
“At another in the series of meetings they have been holding to perfect
their plan in Abuja on Monday, the Kaduna State Governor flanked by his
Ogun State counterpart directed this high ranking INEC official, in the
presence of two top officials of the Presidency who were in the meeting
ostensibly to impress it on this INEC official that the Presidency was in
support of the plan.
“Only last Saturday, another member of this plot and Minister of Solid
Minerals, Dr Kayode Fayemi had boasted publicly at the grand rally of the
APC in AKure that Akeredolu would win the election whether anybody like it
or not. He had equally told his braying crowd that they would do whatever
it requires to win a try. And ever since, we have been subjected to series
of bloody attacks and destruction of our banners, billboards and vehicles
belonging to the Candidate of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), Chief
Olusola Oke in their bid to cow us.”
While calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately call to order
some of his top officials, especially his minsters from the South West
Zone, the Governors of Ogun and Kaduna State who are all out in their
desperation towards the 2019 Presidential ambition, to capture Ondo State
which they intend to use as a springboard for the conquest of the zone,
the Oke Organization warned that the “people of Ondo State are not animals
that could be caged.”
According to him :”Let them be aware that the people of Ondo State would
resist any attempt at imposing unpopular candidate on them by whoever
tries it. They are not animals that could be captured and caged at will
by anybody as they have been boasting they will so do. In the fullness of
time, those who want to do conquest at all cost by subterfuge must be
ready to face the full wrath and fury of the people.
“On our part as members of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), we have
refrained from retaliating for the series of attacks aimed at us because
we want this election to be peaceful and orderly. But those who take the
silence of the people of Ondo State for signs of cowardice better beware.
“We are begging Mr President to please call for order and enjoin the INEC
to do its job as an unbiased umpire and not allow itself to be used as the
whole world is watching events unfold. The wish of the people of Ondo
State must be allowed to manifest without any underhand antic, that is our
prayer Your Excellency.
“We also want to appeal to the Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to call his men to order
by staying far away from desperate politicians who are all out to rig
election because the success of the administration, as far as election
matters are concerned depends on the uprightness and transparency and the
INEC which had in the past been hailed as a truly independent Electoral
Commission. This is our demand, no more, no less,” Olabisi pleaded