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Original Post Date: 2009-05-01 Time: 09:00:05 Posted By: Jan
By Jide Ajani, Kingsley Omonobi, Tony Edike and Gbenga Ariyibi
THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will not hold the remainder of the re-run elections in Ekiti State unless the Federal Government guarantees the security of its staff and the electorate, Vanguard can reveal authoritatively just as supporters of the Action Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party clashed yesterday with some of them sustaining injuries.
Also, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu met with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) from the 36 states and the FCT yesterday behind closed doors while the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) called on President Umaru Yar’Adua to dissolve the electoral commission immediately.
INEC is pushing its decision not to hold the remainder of the re-run elections in Ekiti State on two fronts.
First, INEC is insisting that the safety of the people of Ekiti State was compromised last weekend during the re-run elections in the state.
INEC is also pushing this position because of what an insider disclosed as the “high risk and danger to which our staff were exposed during last Saturday’s elections”
This position which has now become a mantra by INEC, Vanguard was reliably informed by a source at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, was made known by the leadership of the Commission at a meeting yesterday at the Villa.
The meeting, Vanguard gathered, was attended by the leadership of INEC as represented by its National Chairman, Professor Maurice Iwu, and a few other Federal Commissioners as well as the National Security Adviser, NSA, and the top echelon of the security agencies in the country.
Vanguard was made to understand that the meeting, which would be the third in a series since last Saturday’s re-run, saw the Commission insisting on the provision of full-proof measures to avoid the crisis which rocked the voting centres last week
As was the case with Monday’s meeting which had in attendance President Umaru Yar’Adua, the NSA, the President of the Senate, Chief David Mark, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, and INEC Chairman, Professor Maurice Iwu, yesterday’s meeting, though did not have President Yar’Adua in attendance, nonetheless came out with far-reaching conclusions.
Vanguard learnt that all the speakers made it clear that the only pre-condition by the Commission for the conclusion of the elections in Ekiti is for adequate security.
INEC’s position, which was said to have received fervent support was hinged on the fact that last Saturday’s violence in Ekiti could have been avoided if the security arrangement in place had been “water tight” the source said.
The source further disclosed that INEC may have succeeded in having its way as the meeting concluded that everything necessary would be put in place to ensure the safety of lives and property in Ekiti State.
It would be recalled that elections in Ekiti State were meant to hold in 63 wards, spanning 10 local government areas.
The local government areas are: Ido Osi 12 wards; Ise Orun 10 wards; Ijero 8 wards; Ekiti West 4 wards; Irepodun/Ifelodun 8 wards; Ekiti East 4 wards; Gbonyin 4 wards; Ekiti South west 1 ward; Ikole 8 wards and Oye 2 wards.
Elections did not hold in the two wards of Oye-Ekiti. The violence which erupted in Oye made nonsense of the entire process even though elections held in the other local government areas.
The results from Ido Osi is being contested by the Action Congress, AC, while the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is contesting the results from Igbemo.
Iwu, Commissioners hold crucial meeting
Prof. Maurice Iwu, the INEC Chairman, yesterday in Abuja met with Resident Electoral Commssioners (RECs) from the 36 states and the FCT.
The embattled Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti State, Mrs Olusola Adebayo, was also in attendance. Reports say the meeting was held behind closed doors.
Mr Adedeji Soyebi, the INEC National Commissioner in charge of Operations, told newsmen that the meeting was routine.
“The meeting is normal. If you have been following our operations, you will know that we hold routine meetings to review our operations,” he said.
He, however, declined comments on the linkage between the meeting and the controversial Ekiti governorship re-run election.
Mr John Haruna, FCT Commissioner of Police, had arrived at the INEC office at about 3.30 p.m. and held a brief meeting with Adebayo at the INEC Chairman’s office before leaving.
Haruna told newsmen that he was on visit to his men working with INEC, but declined to comment on his encounter with the Adebayo.
AC, PDP supporters clash
Supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Action Congress (AC) in Ekiti State clashed yesterday as both groups held solidarity rallies.
The two parties clashed at the Mobil petrol station shortly after the women wing of the PDP who had come for the rally were returning to their various destinations.
Reasons for the cause of the clash were not immediately known, but a source among the partymen disclosed that the PDP’s political thugs were throwing stones and bottles at the office of the Action Congress (AC) which was adjacent the PDP office when the women were returning to their base
The action, the source further disclosed may have infuriated the AC youths who had just returned to the party secretariat after staging a solidarity rally round the town on the need for INEC to release the election results.
In the ensuing crisis, people from the two political parties sustained injuries, but for the timely intervention of the police who drafted two lorry-loads of regular policemen to the scene to bring normalcy to the area, it could have degenerated into a big mayhem.
Fayose escapes alleged arrest plot
An alleged attempt by security agents dressed in plain clothes to arrest former governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose in
the premises of the African Independent Television (AIT) in Abuja yesterday, failed when the former governor got wind of the plan and plotted his escaped.
Vanguard gathered that Fayose, Senator Ayo Arise, Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN) and a representative of election monitors in the Ekiti re-run election, were at the AIT programme tagged: “Focus Nigeria” from 9am to 9.30am. While the programme was on, a Peugeot 406 car arrived the area with security operatives dressed in plain clothes.
Unknown to the operatives, information had gotten to Fayose of the ploy to arrest him after the end of the programme.
When the programme was concluded and it was found that the operatives were still laying ambush for the ex-governor, he plotted his escape through another route. It was from his hideout he contacted Vanguard.
When Vanguard contacted Fayose at about 4.30pm, yesterday he said he was okay but that he was still in hiding.
However, when Vanguard contacted the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Emmanuel Ojukwu, he claimed ignorance of any such plan, saying it was news to him.
APGA calls for INEC’s dissolution
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has also urged President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to immediately dissolve the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), saying that the current impasse over Ekiti State re-run election was an indication that the body as presently constituted could not conduct credible elections.
National Chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh, who made the position of the party known in a chat with reporters in Enugu, said that APGA was solidly behind Ekiti Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mrs Ayoka Adebayo, urging the government to investigate those allegedly behind the hounding of the Resident Commissioner.
Buttressing the stand of his party for the immediate dissolution of the Commission, Umeh said that it was a tragedy that even with the provision of 10,000 Policemen among other logistics; the commission could not conduct credible election in 54 wards of ten local governments in Ekiti State.
He said that allowing the commission to continue was a mockery on the nation’s fledgling democracy, stressing that it could only take a divine conviction for a person of Mrs Adebayo to say no to pressures to go against due process.
He said, “The summary of the whole thing is that the Pandora box has been exposed and that INEC as presently constituted is an irresponsible organization, which cannot conduct any credible election in this country.
“The only option left for President Yar’Adua now in his re-branding effort is to dissolve this INEC so as to save the country from further mockery by desperate and fraudulent politicians parading themselves as saints.”
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Original date published: 1 May 2009
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200905010260.html?viewall=1