Fayose attacks Buhari over Rivers re-run

- The electoral process in Nigeria has been
destroyed, says Governor Ayodele Fayose
- Foyse says the Buhari-led government has
eroded due electoral processes
- The Ekiti state governor says there is no
free and fair election in the nation again
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has
described the Saturday, election re-run in
River state as a sad reminder of the level of
destruction already done to the country’s
electoral process by the All Progressives
Congress (APC) government of President
Mohammadu Buhari.
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Fayose attacks Buhari over Rivers re-run
Fayose said: “Free, fair and credible election is
dead in the country and that whatever victory
that is recorded by any political party in the
Rivers State election will be nothing but victory
at gun-point.”
Vanguard reports that the governor lamented
that it was worrisome that the legacy of free,
fair and credible election left by the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) has been destroyed
less than two years that the APC assumed
power, saying: “We thought that we have gone
past this era of manipulated electoral process
after the 2015 general elections, which brought
the APC and President Buhari to power, but
the Buhari’s administration has taken us back
to the stone age by merging his party, APC
with the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), the police, military and
other security agencies.”
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In a release issued on Sunday, Special
Assistant to the governor on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, quoted the governor as saying that
with what was witnessed in Rivers State
yesterday, it is clear that Nigeria is under
siege and only prompt intervention by the
international community can save democracy
in the country from this imminent collapse.”
He said: “It is sad that snatching of ballot
boxes, hijacking of voting materials and
electoral violence which had become a thing of
the past have now become part of our electoral
process.
“It is even more worrisome that despite that
votes are counted openly at the polling units,
electorates are no longer sure of the results of
elections until announcement by INEC, which
has become an organ of the APC,” the
governor said.
Governor Fayose described President Buhari
as a pretender, who has only paid lips
service to the sustenance of democracy in the
country, adding that “any president that looks
the other way while the rights of his people to
freely elect their leaders is being snatched at
gunpoint by his own party men is not worthy
of being associated with democracy.”
He reiterated his call to the United States of
America President-Elect, Mr Donald Trump to
focus his attention more on Nigeria, with a
view to saving the country from
disintegrating, saying; “God forbid, if Nigeria
disintegrates, the entire continent of Africa will
disintegrate.
“The order of the day in Nigeria now is
disobedience to court orders, abuse of human
rights, extra judicial killings and mass burial of
innocent Nigerians killed by the Army.
The reality we must all face is that should all
these be allowed to continue, Nigeria faces
imminent danger and the international
community must not allow the country to get
to that level of total collapse before it begins
to call President Buhari and his APC to
order.”
Meanwhile, the candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Gogo Tamuno has been
announced as the winner of the Okrika Ogu/
Bolo federal constituency of Rivers state in
the Saturday, December 10 re-run election.