‪#‎EkitiGate‬: Fayose Denies Using Soldiers To Rig Election

‪Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described
the expelled former State Secretary of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Mr Tope Aluko, as a new
distraction from the All Progressive Congress in Ekiti
State.

The governor, who spoke through
his Special
Assistant on Public Communications and New Media,
Lere Olayinka, said Aluko was already beclouded by
his desperation to seek revenge against him because
of his refusal to make him his Chief of Staff, such that
he (Aluko) was not mindful of committing the
criminal offence of perjury.


He said, “For Aluko to be taken seriously, he must
first have to report himself to the police to be tried
for perjury and committed to prison for three years,
since what he is now saying is different from what he
said under oath at the Election Tribunal being the
only witness called by the PDP and Governor Fayose.

“If after giving evidence under oath at the tribunal
that the Election was free, fair and credible and that
security agents, including soldiers performed their
duties creditably well, saying something else more
than one year after is an admittance by Aluko himself
that he is not a stable character.

.“It is also a demonstration of the fact that giving the
right offer tomorrow, the same Aluko can also
address the press tomorrow to deny all what he said
today.

He can even deny his own existence since he can
deny what he said under oath just because he was
not made Chief of Staff.

“Therefore, we won’t bother ourselves, responding to
what a political parasite chooses to say because he
wouldn’t have said what he is now saying today if he
had been made Chief of Staff to Governor Fayose and
it is sure that if he called today, and given the right
offer, he will begin to sing another song.”Fayose,
however, did not deny receiving$37m from former
president Goodluck Jonathan for the 2014
governorship election in which he defeated former
governor Kayode Fayemi.

He added that it would take more than recruiting and
paying Aluko to discredit an election adjudged by
both local and international observers, including the
UnitedStates government as free, fair and credible.