While revealing what informed the petition despite that the poll had been adjudged the most transparent in recent times, the interim Chairman of the state chapter of the party, Chief Jide Awe, disclosed to journalists yesterday that he submitted the petition on behalf of the party to the tribunal on Saturday, since the law allows the tribunal to also operate during weekends.
Awe said: “The petition sought the assistance of the tribunal to unravel the hidden facts surrounding the election, because, to us the poll was more of a mechanical exercise than conventional casting of votes.” The APC leader, who explained the grounds of the petition, disclosed that it centred majorly on the alleged manipulations, undue militarisation, impeachment, as well as the corruption charges hanging on the governor-elect.
He claimed that Fayose was not qualified in the first place to participate in the election, aside from the process of the poll’s conduct which he claimed was faulty. He said, “the results of the election were embarrassing to us as a party and we hold the view that there is no smoke without fire.”
He clarified that the petition filed by the party was not at variance with the earlier position of the governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi who accepted defeat and congratulated Mr. Ayo Fayose of PDP who was declared winner by INEC. “The governor does not own the party, it is the party that owns the governor, and so the party can decide for him. You will observe that there is no name of Fayemi on the ballot papers, what was contained on it was name of the party and its logo, so the issue is beyond the governor.”
The chairman added further that “Our candidate, Fayemi only conceded victory to guarantee continued peace that was prevalent in the state at the time as well as allow the siege laid on the state by the military to cease. “You can see that as soon as he announced that he had accepted defeat, the soldiers immediately vacated the state,” he said. (Culled from Osundefender)
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