In the aftermath of the Re-run election in Rivers State, Ekiti State Governor and vocal Federal Government critic, Ayo Fayose has once again hit President Buhari with words.
The Governor released a statement today through his special assistant on Social Media, Lere Olayinka, in which he condemned the alleged roll of the Buhari federal government in the election. Fayose 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.
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.”
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.”