THE NATION:
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for a thorough investigation, arrest and prosecution of the officials implicated in the recently released audio clip of a meeting where the plan to rig the June 21, 2014 governorship election in Ekiti was hatched.
Those implicated includes serving and former government officials, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains and military personnel whose ignoble roles were revealed in the audio clip.
Those whose voices and names were revealed in the audio recording of the meeting released by Captain Sagir Koli of the 32nd Artillery Brigade in Ekiti State, included the current state governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose who was at the time the PDP governorship candidate.
Others are: the Minister for Police Affairs, Mr. Jelili Adesiyan; his predecessor, Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade (retd.); then Minister of State for Defence, Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro; the Commanding Officer in charge of soldiers deployed to provide security for the election, Brig.-Gen. Aliyu Momoh and a PDP stalwart, Senator Iyiola Omisore among others.
But, the APC protest letter to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega said it was Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke and Inspector- General of Police (IGP), Mr. Suleiman Abba, that flayed the secret meeting, as against the tenets of democracy and electoral law.
