Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, on Sunday said credible election under the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was dead.
Fayose made the remark while reacting to Saturday’s legislative rerun election in Rivers State.
He lamented that the rerun elections in Rivers State was a sad reminder of the level of destruction already done to the country’s electoral process by the All Progressives Congress, APC- led Federal Government.
The governor claimed that the legacy of free, fair and credible election the APC – led Federal Government inherited from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had been destroyed less than two years of being in power.
In a release issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, 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.
“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.”
Fayose said with what was witnessed in Rivers State yesterday, it is clear that Nigeria is under siege.
He called for swift intervention from the international community in order to save can Nigeria’s democracy from imminent.
“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,” he said.
The statement further quoted Fayose as saying, “The order of the day in Nigeria now is disobedience to court orders, abuse of human rights, extra judicial killings and mass burial of innocent Nigerians killed by the Army.
“The reality we must all face is that should all these be allowed to continue, Nigeria faces imminent danger and the international community must not allow the country to get to that level of total collapse before it begins to call President Buhari and his APC to order.”
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