Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, Mr.
Makanjuola Ogundipe, has raised the alarm that the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the state is planning to bring people
from the neighbouring states to register as voters in the forthcoming
review of voters’ register for the 2014 governorship election.
Ogundipe also alleged that the Dr Kayode Fayemiled APC government has earmarked a huge amount of money for the success of the exercise to ensure fake voters are registered during the poll.
In a statement by his media aide, Mr. Femi Omolusi, the PDP chairman also said that the state government had perfected plans to ensure the removal of the names of civil servants from the voters’ registers, having known their disposition to the ruling party.
Ogundipe, who charged his party members to be vigilant during the registration exercise, urged the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Sotonye Wakama, to take a cue from the efforts of the police during the Anambra State governorship election, which culminated in the arrest of 183 fake election observers and ensure normalcy during the review exercise.
But the state government, while saying there was no iota of truth in the allegations, chided the PDP on the issue, adding that the party was being haunted by its past and its failure to perform in seven and half years in office in addition to wasting the state’s resources.
Information Commissioner, Mr. Tayo Ekundayo and the APC interim state Chairman, Chief Jide Awe, said the PDP was supposed to lay siege and arrest the culprits since it was aware of such plans.
Awe said: “As a party, we have no such plans. If they (PDP) think or are aware that some people have such plan, all they have to do is to guard their loins and report such to the police. I cannot defend what I do not know anything of.”
He said the allegation of plans to import people from outside the state, earmarking funds for the purpose and disenfranchising civil servants levelled by the PDP, were borne out of the opposition party’s envy of the achievements of the APC government.
Ogundipe also alleged that the Dr Kayode Fayemiled APC government has earmarked a huge amount of money for the success of the exercise to ensure fake voters are registered during the poll.
In a statement by his media aide, Mr. Femi Omolusi, the PDP chairman also said that the state government had perfected plans to ensure the removal of the names of civil servants from the voters’ registers, having known their disposition to the ruling party.
Ogundipe, who charged his party members to be vigilant during the registration exercise, urged the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Sotonye Wakama, to take a cue from the efforts of the police during the Anambra State governorship election, which culminated in the arrest of 183 fake election observers and ensure normalcy during the review exercise.
But the state government, while saying there was no iota of truth in the allegations, chided the PDP on the issue, adding that the party was being haunted by its past and its failure to perform in seven and half years in office in addition to wasting the state’s resources.
Information Commissioner, Mr. Tayo Ekundayo and the APC interim state Chairman, Chief Jide Awe, said the PDP was supposed to lay siege and arrest the culprits since it was aware of such plans.
Awe said: “As a party, we have no such plans. If they (PDP) think or are aware that some people have such plan, all they have to do is to guard their loins and report such to the police. I cannot defend what I do not know anything of.”
He said the allegation of plans to import people from outside the state, earmarking funds for the purpose and disenfranchising civil servants levelled by the PDP, were borne out of the opposition party’s envy of the achievements of the APC government.
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