… Cautions Buhari, APC over seeming collaboration with judiciary

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has condemned the tribunal
judgments which nullified the elections of Rivers and Akwa Ibom States Governors, Mr Nyesom Wike and Emmanuel Udom respectively.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,Fayose said; “The seeming collaboration between the All Progressives Congress, APC led federal government and a section of the judiciary is worrisome and portends grave danger to the corporate existence of Nigeria.
According to Fayose, this is worse than corruption that the president claimed to be fighting.

The desperation to take over the South South States of Rivers and Akwa Ibom through the backdoor by President Mohammadu Buhari and his APC, in preparation for 2019, using the judiciary may cause anarchy in the country, Fayose said

The governor accused the APC and President Buhari of another grand plot to rig the forthcoming Kogi and Bayelsa States governorship election, using the newly appointed Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu
and the director general of Department of State Security (DSS), Alhaji Lawal Daura.

He described the suspension of the appeal court judgment on Senate
President Bukola Saraki as “part of the grand plot to use a section of
the judiciary to wrestle power from those the Buhari’s Presidency is
not comfortable with,” saying the indefinite adjournment by the appeal
court smacked of interference from the powers that be.

“There were widespread electoral malpractices during the presidential election in the North, with rampant under-aged voting. Yet, Dr Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP did not take steps capable of threatening Nigeria’s corporate
existence.
Curiously too, in a State like Yobe where it was established that the
INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Abu Zarma received N15
million bribe from the Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the State Governor,
Ibrahim Gaidam, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Zakari Deba to influence the State Governorship election, the tribunal did not
nullify the election”, Fayose noted

He called on President Buhari to, in the overall interest of Nigeria, tread cautiously in his bid to consolidate power and prepare
ground for his possible re-election bid.

Governor Fayose, who reminded the President of the wild, wild west of
the mid 60s and the 1983 saga between late Chief Adekunle Ajasin and
Chief Akin Omoboriowo, which was orchestrated by the then federal
government, said “the consequences of the orchestrated plot to prevent
the people of Western Region from having the government of their
choice through a fair and just election in 1964 should be a watchful
example for Nigerians in general and President Buhari in particular.”

He urged the people of the South South not to be intimidated and
discouraged.
Fayose expressed hope that the appellate court will protect the
wish of the people of Rivers and Akwa Ibom States.

Fayose stated further that:“Governors Wike and Udom, as well as the teeming supporters of ournparty, PDP in Rivers and Akwa Ibom States should not be deterred and discouraged as I am sure that by the special grace of God, they will laugh last.”