Victory Victory Halleluyah!
Halleluyah Halleluyah!
Victory Victory Halleluyah!
Jesus conquered the devil patapata!
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http://saharareporters.com/news-page/breaking-news-ekiti-appeal-tribunal-declares-kayode-fayemi-governor
BREAKING NEWS: Ekiti Appeal Tribunal Declares Kayode Fayemi As Governor
The candidate of the AC in the 2007 election, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has been declared winner by the Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin, Kwara state after a thorough analysis of the the results of Ekiti re-run elections that took place in 2009.
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http://elendureports.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1391&Itemid=1
| Oni Out, Fayemi In |
| Written by Jonathan Elendu | |
| Friday, 15 October 2010
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| The Appeal Tribunal sitting in Ilorin this morning sacked Gov. Segun Oni of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and declared Kayode Fayemi of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as the new governor of Ekiti State. Fayemi and the Action Congress had gone to the Ekiti Governorship Election Tribunal to protest the declaration of Oni as the duly elected governor of Ekiti State shortly after he was declared winner. This led to a protracted legal tussle which sometimes led to some high drama within and outside courts. With this declaration ACN there are now 3 governors from the ACN. Fayemi is the second governor from the party to emerge through the Tribunals. Elendureports spoke to the spokesman of the ACN, Lai Mohammed, SAN. He said, "We are elated but its sad that it would take more than 40 months to claim our mandate. Having said that we must also congratulate the Judiciary for abiding by the will of the people. It gives us hope that democracy has come to stay. We must also congratulate the party for fighting to claim its mandate and for presenting a good candidate." | |
| Last Updated ( Friday, 15 October 2010 ) |
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Maurice Iwu, Ayoka Adebayo Slammed As Court Declares Fayemi Ekiti Governor
Spontaneous jubilation broke out today all over Ekiti State and in other parts of Nigeria as well as among Nigerians abroad as a panel of the Court of Appeal in Ilorin declared Mr. Kayode Fayemi, the candidate of the Action Congress, as the rightful winner of the 2007 governorship election in the state.
"God bless these judges," exclaimed an elderly woman at the venue of the court's sitting.
Signs that Fayemi was on his way to victory emerged when the lead judge in the case, Justice Ayo Salami, ruled that the results for the Ijero as well as Ifaki 1 and 2 electoral wards were simply concocted, manufactured, and purported. The tribunal therefore cancelled the results.
After a thorough analysis of the results of the re-run gubernatorial election that took place in 2009, the judges declared that Fayemi was the clear winner.
The 2009 re-run election was marked by high political drama. In the run-up to the election, former Nigerian ruler Umaru Yar'adua led a PDP campaign team into Ado-Ekiti in what was seen as an act of political intimidation of the voters. At the rally, Speaker of the House Dimeji Bankole assured PDP partisans that the party would use military might to ensure that its candidate, Mr. Segun Oni, was declared the winner.
Oni, an engineer, was foisted on the people of Ekiti in the 2007 governorship election which was massively rigged under the direction of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and with the willing cooperation of Mr. Maurice Iwu, the then chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
After an appellate court invalidated Oni's election and ordered a new election, the governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola was heard on tape promising PDP chieftains in Ekiti that he would provide thugs in military gear as well as ammunition to enable the party to seize the state again.
The contentious re-run election reached a dramatic climax when the then state electoral commissioner, Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo, wrote a letter of resignation and went into hiding, stating that she was under pressure to falsify the results. Saharareporters reported exclusively that the PDP was behind the attempt to bribe or intimidate Mrs. Adebayo Ekiti to call the wrong winner.
In the wake of Mrs. Adebayo's disappearance, the Yar'adua regime unfurled a terror strategy to force the woman to come out of hiding and carry out the party's bidding.
In a shameless show of force, then Inspector General of Police Michael Okiro, Information Minister Dora Akunyili, and Mr. Iwu held a joint press conference and gave the hiding electoral officer an ultimatum to report herself or face harsh consequences. Our sources revealed that the government also threatened the woman's only son, demanding that he produce his mother or face dire consequences.
Shortly after the threats, Mrs. Adebayo came out of hiding and, after meeting with Iwu at INEC headquarters, told reporters that she was still "a part of the family" and would return to Ekiti to conclude the election. She later declared Oni the winner after INEC had awarded the candidate a ridiculous number of votes in a few wards. Aware that she had played a role in a huge scam and fraud, a visibly shaken Mrs. Adebayo asked those who were unhappy with the result to go to court.
In handing down its verdict today, the Justice Salami panel took a swipe at former INEC boss, Maurice Iwu, accusing him of doing a shoddy job in the re-run election. In giving today's judgment, Justice Salami also slammed Mrs. Adebayo for colluding in the PDP's plot to rig the re-run election. The court wondered where her conscience was as she rubberstamped and announced a falsified and fraudulent result.
"Today's judgment has exposed the kind of suffering that Nigerians have endured under a rapacious PDP that sees Nigeria as a space to be conquered," said an Abuja-based journalist with Leadership newspaper.
An Ekiti-based medical doctor, who traveled to Ilorin to hear the verdict, told Saharareporters over the phone: "It's a shame that the people of Ekiti have been ruled by criminal usurpers for more than three years." He added, "Rigging will not stop in our state or the nation until perpetrators like Engineer Oni and his enablers in INEC like Professor Iwu and Mrs. Adebayo are prosecuted and jailed."
The appellate tribunal ordered INEC to withdraw the certificate of return issued to PDP's Segun Oni and issue one to Mr. Fayemi with immediate effect.
With today's outcome, Mr. Fayemi will preside as governor for the next four years before another governorship election will take place. Under a precedent established in the case of Governor Peter Obi of Anambra, the tenure of a candidate whose mandate is upheld by a court is four years from the date of swearing in.
Asked what was next for the people of Ekiti, a confidante of Mr. Fayemi told Saharareporters, "First, the people have a right to celebrate this hard-won victory, which confers great credit on the judiciary. Then, as soon as Dr. Fayemi is sworn in, he will move fast to provide exemplary leadership to the long-suffering people of Ekiti."
Another AC member told Saharareporters: "You can tell when the judiciary tells the truth because you see the people start to jubilate automatically," adding that, when judges make the wrong calls in electoral cases, "the place becomes like a funeral."
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Tentative New Table of Results
[Will be updated later as more detailed information on verdict becomes available]
| S/N | LGA | AC | PDP | Winner |
| 1. | Ado Ekiti | 16,612 | 9,700 | Fayemi |
| 2. | Efon | CANCELLED | n.a. | |
| 3. | Ekiti East | 7,829 | 8,717 | Oni |
| 4. | Ekiti West | 7,617 | 8,671 | Oni |
| 5. | Ekiti South West | 7,106 | 7,556 | Oni |
| 6. | Emure | 3,645 | 2,925 | Fayemi |
| 7. | Gbonyin | 5,962 | 5,975 | Oni |
| 8. | Ido-Osi | 3,793 | 15,939 | Oni |
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| Subtract (Ifaki 1 & 2) | 2 | 7,375 |
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| New Ido-Osi | 3,793 | 8,564 | Oni |
| 9. | Ijero | 5359 | 9110 | Oni |
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| Subtract (Ipoti Wards A & B) | 1881 | 5121 |
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| New Ijero | 3478 | 3989 | Oni |
| 10. | Ikere | 6971 | 6214 | Fayemi |
| 11. | Ikole | 6153 | 6861 | Oni |
| 12. | Ilejemeje | 2122 | 3405 | Oni |
| 13. | Irepodun/Ifelodun | 9926 | 5665 | Fayemi |
| 14. | Ise/Orun | 4221 | 3864 | Fayemi |
| 15. | Moba | 8364 | 7792 | Fayemi |
| 16. | Oye | 11337 | 8746 | Fayemi |
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| OLD TOTAL | 107,017 | 111,140 | Oni |
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| NEW TOTAL | 108,929 | 114,583 | Fayemi |
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ALUKO COMMENTARY
1. Victory Victory Halleluyah!
Halleluyah Halleluyah
Victory Victory Halleluyah
Jesus conquered the devil patapata.
2. He has given me victory
I will lift Him higher
Jehovah,I will lift Him higher.
3. Winner ooo Winner
Winner ooo Winner
Jesus You don win o Winner
Patapata You go win forever Winner
4. Are you a winner?
I am a Winner in the Lord Jesus
We thank God that our prayers of yesterday and yester-months have now been heard!
A new dawn begins in Ekiti State immediately upon the swearing-in of Governor Kayode Fayemi, after an unnecesarily-long but hard-fought legal battle for democracy in our long-suffering state. Our democracy will now be better appreciated. The days of the locusts are over, and a new people-centered government will and must begin right, Fayemi after Oni, a la Obama after Bush. The days of theory are over; praxis must take over.
Lagos, Ondo, Edo, Ekiti.........change is in the air!
More importantly, this victory is within the period when new elections for the State Assembly and representatives of Ekiti State at the National Assembly will be held soon. It will undoubtedly impact the quality of those legislators.....to the benefit of our State. Riff-raffs need not apply.
From now on, let wisdom and knowledge flow from the Fountain, not mediocrity and violence!
Congratulations everybody!
Bolaji Aluko
More than elated
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