PAAM to APC: You Are Not Serious

A group, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement (PAAM), has described the petition filed at the tribunal by the All Progressives Congress (APC), challenging the June 21, 2014 Ekiti State governorship election as a waste of time and further demonstration of the party’s selfishness, arrogance and hatred for democratic process.

PAAM said in a release issued in Ado-Ekiti by its Director General, Bisi Kolawole, that: “the APC is only advertising its shamelessness as a party by challenging the results of an election in which its candidate could not win his own local council.”



The Adeyeye Movement described as laughable, claim of “manipulation, undue militarisation, impeachment as well as EFCC’s cases hanging on the governor-elect, Dr Ayodele Fayose,” adding that, “Only a party comprising of people that are interested in dancing naked in the market place would make provision of adequate security for an election a tribunal issue.”

It said the APC was only complaining because the heavy presence of security men during the election scuttled its plans to use armed thugs it imported into the state and lodged in various hotels to rig the election.

PAAM said: “while we recognise the inalienable rights of all Nigerians to approach the courts for redress on any issue, we must say that going to court to challenge an election in which Dr Kayode Fayemi, a sitting governor lost even in his local government is a waste of time and a clear demonstration of the APC’s hatred for Nigeria and its people.


“This is more so that the APC candidate, Governor Fayemi had accepted the election results and congratulated the winner.

“Most importantly, when has provision of adequate security for an election become an electoral offense? Was Edo State not militarised during the governorship election of 2012, which the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), now APC won massively?

“It is also important to note that the hypocrites in the APC celebrated Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s victory in the militarised Edo State election, while the governor even went further to visit President Goodluck Jonathan and thanked him for ‘providing adequate security’ for the election which allowed the people to express their will ‘freely’.