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Re: Fayemi's Victory: Send the Riggers to Jail
The Centre for Democracy and Development applauds the unanimous judgment by the Court of Appeal that our founding director, Dr Kayode Fayemi, indeed scored 105,631 votes as against Segun Oni's 95,176 in the April 2007 governorship election and won that election three and half years ago. They also ruled that he was the winner of the April 2009 supplementary election involving some wards in the state. In a unanimous judgment, the five justices, led by the Appeal Court President, Justice Ayo Salami, set aside the majority judgment of the trial tribunal that had declared Oni validly elected in the 2009 rerun and upheld the minority judgment. The other justices are C.R Ogunbiyi, O. Ariwoola, C.C Nweze and Adamu Janro.
The judges have become heroes in Nigeria's democracy building marathon by finally allowing the truth and the mandate of the people of Ekiti State to triumph. The judges have also made it clear that certain officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission of that time were the perpetrators of the electoral crimes that kept Fayemi away from his mandate for three and half years.
We recall that after the April 2009 re-run elections, Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo, the then Ekiti Resident Electoral Commissioner had initially rejected that fake results Ido-Osi stating that her conscience as a Christian would not allow her falsify the truth. She was immediately declared a wanted person by the Inspector General of Police, dragged out and marched to the office of the then Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Maurice Iwu. Thereafter, she recanted and announced the false results knowing full well that she was depriving the people of Ekiti the Governor they had elected twice.
Now that INEC has a new credible leadership, we call on their Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega to immediately set in process the prosecution of Ayoka Adebayo, Maurice Iwu, former imposter Governor Segun Oni and the then Inspector General of Police for the electoral offenses they committed. As long as there are no sanctions for electoral crimes, people would continue to commit them.
We congratulate our founding Director, Kayode Fayemi for his dogged determination over the past 42 months to recover the stolen mandate of the people through the judicial process and wish him the best in implementing his 8-Point Agenda aimed at deepening democracy and promoting people-centered development in Ekiti State.
Dr Jibrin Ibrahim
Director
The Centre for Democracy and Development applauds the unanimous judgment by the Court of Appeal that our founding director, Dr Kayode Fayemi, indeed scored 105,631 votes as against Segun Oni's 95,176 in the April 2007 governorship election and won that election three and half years ago. They also ruled that he was the winner of the April 2009 supplementary election involving some wards in the state. In a unanimous judgment, the five justices, led by the Appeal Court President, Justice Ayo Salami, set aside the majority judgment of the trial tribunal that had declared Oni validly elected in the 2009 rerun and upheld the minority judgment. The other justices are C.R Ogunbiyi, O. Ariwoola, C.C Nweze and Adamu Janro.
The judges have become heroes in Nigeria's democracy building marathon by finally allowing the truth and the mandate of the people of Ekiti State to triumph. The judges have also made it clear that certain officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission of that time were the perpetrators of the electoral crimes that kept Fayemi away from his mandate for three and half years.
We recall that after the April 2009 re-run elections, Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo, the then Ekiti Resident Electoral Commissioner had initially rejected that fake results Ido-Osi stating that her conscience as a Christian would not allow her falsify the truth. She was immediately declared a wanted person by the Inspector General of Police, dragged out and marched to the office of the then Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Maurice Iwu. Thereafter, she recanted and announced the false results knowing full well that she was depriving the people of Ekiti the Governor they had elected twice.
Now that INEC has a new credible leadership, we call on their Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega to immediately set in process the prosecution of Ayoka Adebayo, Maurice Iwu, former imposter Governor Segun Oni and the then Inspector General of Police for the electoral offenses they committed. As long as there are no sanctions for electoral crimes, people would continue to commit them.
We congratulate our founding Director, Kayode Fayemi for his dogged determination over the past 42 months to recover the stolen mandate of the people through the judicial process and wish him the best in implementing his 8-Point Agenda aimed at deepening democracy and promoting people-centered development in Ekiti State.
Dr Jibrin Ibrahim
Director
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Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station
Austin, TX 78712-0220
USA
512 475 7224
512 475 7222 (fax)
http://www.toyinfalola.com/
www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa
http://groups.google.com/group/yorubaaffairs
http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station
Austin, TX 78712-0220
USA
512 475 7224
512 475 7222 (fax)
http://www.toyinfalola.com/
www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa
http://groups.google.com/group/yorubaaffairs
http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
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