Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo
Adeyeye, has asked the President-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
(retd) to caution the All Progressives Congress members in Ekiti State
lest they truncate democracy in the country.
The minister, who described the APC
desperation to seize power in Ekiti State through the backdoor as a
dangerous trend, added that the APC members in the state House of
Assembly had been capitalising on Buhari’s victory in the March 28 poll
to cause crisis in the state.
Adeyeye said in a statement on Tuesday that the APC should stop behaving like a party of bad losers.
He said, “In 1999, Prof. Tunde Adeniran
of the PDP lost to Otunba Niyi Adebayo, Adeniran congratulated the
winner. He did not go to court. It was in 2003 that Adebayo lost to
Governor Ayodele Fayose that they went to the tribunal.
“Also, when Segun Oni won the election in 2007, these same APC people made Ekiti ungovernable for him.
“In 2011 when Fayose contested
senatorial election and lost to Senator Babafemi Ojudu, he did not go to
court. None of the PDP National Assembly candidates that lost in 2011
went to court.
“Since they lost the governorship to the
PDP nine months ago, they have refused to accept defeat. It was as a
result of this desperation to steal Ekiti people’s mandate that Chief
Omolafe Aderiye was killed.
“Today (Tuesday) again, they killed
Modupe Temitope Olaiya in Efon-Alaaye and one wonders why these APC
people derive joy in shedding blood of innocent Ekiti sons and
daughters. Why must there be crisis in Ekiti each time the APC elements
lose power to the PDP?”
“General Buhari must not let these
desperate APC members in Ekiti State drag his name and reputation in the
mud by using his name to cause chaos in Ekiti,”the minister added.
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