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Ekiti Election: Workers’s Group Accuse Fayose Of Plans To Rig Election

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Ekiti State Governor: Ayodele Fayose (Photo File)

Workers Allegedly Find Out A Fayose-Arranged Voters’ Data Capturing Being handled By Peace Corps.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has been accused of attempting to rig the July 14 governorship election in favour his candidate Prof Kolapo Olusola Eleka.

In a press statement by the Enlightened Workers Forum (EWF), an interest group in the Ekiti State work force, it was said that the group found out about a voter’s card data capturing excercise that is currently going on at the Peace Corps of Nigeria, Ekiti State Command Headquarters in Oke Ila area of Ado-Ekiti and Fajuyi mini pavilion.

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The EWF which was signed by its Coordinator, Mike Bamidele, said it maintained that the Ekiti Command of the PCN was acting on a prior agreement with Fayose to collate, according to the Wards, Polling Units, the VIN and serial numbers on the voter’s cards belonging to members of the Corps.

Commissioner for Information, Mr. Lanre Ogunsuyi, who denied the above allegations said it was a figment of imagination of the group.

In his words, “This is a figment of their imagination, all parties are busy mobilizing and training their supporters, party agents and enlightening the electorate ahead of the election.

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“No worker has submitted his card for any pecuniary gain and no cloning of cards is going on as alleged. What is going on are political parties, PCN members are free to join any political meeting of their choice.”

The EWF said the alleged action was aimed at cloning the cards and double the vote count during the governorship election for the PDP candidate to emerge victorious at the poll.

It claimed that Fayose had also requested for the bank details of the PCN members that have already submitted their PVCs for the purported data capturing with a promise to give each PCN members N10,000 a day to the election through bank alert.

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The group said: “Fayose, in his desperate moves to coerce the PCN Ekiti State Command into his devilish political tricks as the next month governorship election draws near had given the non-governmental security outfit State Employment Forms and promised to enlist their members into the State Public Service and also mobilize them as a secret security personnel to perpetrate rigging in the next month governorship election.

The group therefore advised that the Ekiti State Command of the Peace Corps of Nigeria to avoid the Governor’s “ political antics” which according to the group “could denigrate the good public image of the organisation.”