Osun rerun a contest between PDP, security agencies, supervised by compromised INEC – Fayose

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has alleged that the
administration of President Mohammadu Buhari and his ruling party, All
Progressive Congress (APC) have killed democracy in Nigeria with the
outcome of what he described as electoral fraud in Osun State on
Thursday.

He was reacting to the declaration of APC 's Gboyega Isiaka Oyetola as
the winner of the September 27 re-run governorship poll in the state
by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He described
the conduct of the poll as a show of shame to democracy, adding that
Nigeria will now become a laughing stock before democracy adherents
and lovers in the international community.

Fayose said: "With the show of shame that happened in last Saturday's
Osun state governorship election in general and the Thursday rerun in
particular, there is no other conclusion to draw than that democracy
is now dead in our beloved country", he said.

The governor who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu
Adelusi, decried the conduct of the governorship poll in Osun as well
as its outcome, alleging that it is a perversion of the will of the
people rather than an encouragement of democracy. Adding that the APC
had killed democracy with alleged rigging machinery deployed in Ekiti
State on July 14 and Osun on September 22 and 27 respectively, Fayose
said, "With what happened in Osun state, democracy is actually dead in
Nigeria and we are in critical times. The Osun supplementary elections
was just a repeat of what happened in Ekiti State on July 14th. And it
is unfortunate that, again, the will of the people has been perverted.

"It was obvious even to the blind that the Osun election, as was the
case with Ekiti, was a contest between the PDP and the security
agencies supervised by a compromised INEC."

Fayose added that the University professors also used as returning
officers by INEC have, ab initio, been compromised and only serve the
interest of those he described as their pay masters.

"Therefore, we want to believe that conscionable Nigerians and the
survival of this country as a whole are at the mercy of God and of the
judiciary. And if the judiciary fails to rise up to the occasion,
Nigerians will be among men the most miserable"

Reviewing previous elections, Fayose said the ruling APC has perfected
various forms of what he called "rigging plans, beginning with Edo,
going forward to Ondo and Ekiti and now Osun state".

The Ekiti governor commended Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke for
having fought a good fight: "You did not lose but your mandate has
only been stolen."

Fayose then condemned the violence that attended the election,
sympathised with the families of those killed and enjoined PDP members
to refrain from taking the law into their own hands, assuring that:
"Help will come soon".