The governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose on Monday has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the former People’s Democratic Party (PDP) secretary in the state, Mr Temitope Aluko for perjury because he had lied on oath as the principal witness for PDP at the tribunal by saying the Ekiti elections were free and fair.
Fayose further accused the All Progressives Congress of using to drag his name in the mud and accuse him of rigging the June 21, 2014 in the state.
He said: “Under normal circumstance, Aluko ought to be arrested and tried for perjury. He was the PDP witness in the tribunal and it meant he lied under oath.”
Fayose in a state broadcast in Ado-Ekiti yesterday he described Aluko as an “unstable mind and that was why our party expelled him and others last year.”
According to the governor, “The APC can never trust him with anything because they know that what he did to me, he would do to them. He was the principal witness of the PDP even up to the Supreme Court where he said under oath that the election was free and fair and now at what point was the election flawed?”
The former PDP scribe had in an interview with the press in Abuja, revealed that former President Goodluck Jonathan aided the rigging of the governorship elections in state by providing N4.7bn to Fayose to execute it.
Aluko who said he was part of the team that prosecuted the elections as chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Fayose Campaign Organisation said Jonathan gave the governor $2m in March 2014 for the primaries and another $35m for the election proper.
He said it was former defence minister Musiliu Obanikoro who brought the $35m which was delivered to Fayose at a hotel, adding that the N4.7bn came into Ekiti on June 17, 2014.
The former scribe further said that the $35m was taken to Onitsha where it was converted to the local currency.
Aluko also added that the entire ploy to use the military in the elections was hatched with the consent of Jonathan who empowered Fayose as the de facto commander in his stead.
He said at one of the meetings here in Abuja: “The former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, then Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Kenneth Minimah and former national party of PDP Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, Senator Iyiola Omisore then Police Affairs minister Jelili Adesiyan and Musiliu Obanikoro, the minister of State , Defence were all in attendance.”