Buhari, APC plotting to rig Rivers rerun election – Fayose

Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said
President Muhammadu Buhari’s swift reaction
to the recent political violence in Rivers State
is part of the All Progressives Congress plot
to rig the rerun elections scheduled for
Saturday.

According to him, any attempt to arrest
members of the Peoples Democratic Party in
Rivers State under the guise of
stemming political violence will be counter-
productive.

The governor, who decried the reported
violence in Rivers and other states in the
country, said, “Only a president with
ulterior political motives will elevate political
violence above the kind of genocide carried out
by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State.”

Boasting that Rivers State and the entire
South-South belonged to the PDP, he
said, “Having failed in the court to steal the
states from the PDP, Buhari and his APC want
to use violence and intimidation. But they
should know that even if they relocate Aso
Rock Presidential Villa and the APC National
Secretariat to Rivers State on Saturday, they
will be roundly defeated.”

Fayose, who spoke through his Special
Assistant on Public Communications and New
Media, Lere Olayinka, wondered why the
President, who did not utter a word until over
400 Agatu people of Benue State were
murdered, swiftly reacted to the reported
political violence in Rivers State from faraway
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

He said, “In Agatu Local Government Area of
Benue State, Fulani herdsmen allegedly killed
over 400 people, including children and
pregnant women, destroyed more than ten
villages; President Buhari did not raise his
voice against this genocide until I condemned
his silence.

“Also in Mile 12, Lagos, 15 persons, including
two children were killed with property worth
several millions of Naira destroyed during a
clash between Hausa and Yoruba; President
Buhari did not give the security services any
clear directives to deal decisively with anyone.
“Even though one is not against any action of
the government aimed at curbing violence of
whatever form, it is pertinent to ask the
president whether or not killing of Nigerians
should only attract his attention when it
involves elections.”