The APC at the end of the first meeting of its National Working
Committee, NWC declared the just-concluded election as neither free nor
fair as it claimed that the process that led to it was skewed to favour
PDP.
The party said it had as such directed its members and officials who
were arrested or limited in the days leading to the election to seek
legal redress.
A communiqué of the meeting issued by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated thus:
”In order to prevent a recurrence of what happened in Ekiti,
especially the militarisation of the process, the harassment and
intimidation of citizens, especially those in opposition, my party has
decided to challenge in court some of these constitutional breaches and
will also encourage our leaders and supporters, who were arrested,
harassed and intimidated to seek the enforcement of their fundamental
rights that were recklessly abridged by the security agencies.”
He further stated that: “We believe that the events leading to the
D-Day in Ekiti negate the principles of a free, fair and credible
election. From the militarisation of the election to the police attack
on our supporters, arrest and detention of our leaders across the state
and the use of huge funds to induce voters, the federal authorities
skewed everything in favour of the PDP.”
According to him: “With thousands of armed troops, police, state
security and civil defence personnel deployed to Ekiti, the state was
simply under a total lockdown.
APC planning mayhem in Ekiti — PDP
Responding to the APC communiqué yesterday, the PDP’s National
Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh said the APC was about to resort
to what he claimed were the party’s old behaviour as he claimed the
party was set to cause mayhem in Ekiti State.
Noting that the communiqué of the APC demonstrates their ‘preference
for anarchy and blind homage to nihilism and destruction of the
democratic order’, Metuh said: “The APC has once again confirmed that it
is nothing but a chaotic organisation, totally averse to democracy and
orderliness. It has shown that it is a party of desperate, frustrated
and violent individuals promoting a Janjaweed ideology.”
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