Fayose asks govs to conduct LG polls

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has urged his colleagues to conduct elections in the local governments, saying caretaker committee was an aberration.

He also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to make the war against corruption total, by being bold enough to probe the administrations of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and others about how they spent their security votes.

Meanwhile, an Ekiti State High Court on Monday dismissed the suit filed by the All Progressives Congress against the composition of the Ekiti State Independent Electoral

Justice Dele Omotoso, who held that the opposition party in the state failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, also refused to stop the local governments election, slated for this Saturday.

The APC had alleged that members of the electoral body constituted by Fayose were card-carrying members of the Peoples Democratic Party. Therefore, the party said they could not conduct a free and fair election.

Listed as the PDP members by the APC are the SIEC Chairman, Justice Kayode Bamisile (retd.), Victoria Olufunke Adeyera, Ganiyu Bello, Mojisola Florence Bankole, Rufus Sunday Olaiya and Olajide Vincent Adeyeye.

The APC, in a statement by its state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, has however vowed to challenge the judgment at the Court of Appeal.

The party contended that the judgment “cannot stand the judicial efficiency and legal scrutiny of the appellate court.”

“We will not allow the charade called SIEC to stand. We maintain that the composition of the Ekiti SIEC did not follow the due process and provision of the law,” he said.

Speaking at the PDP’s secretariat on Monday while presenting party flags to the chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the party, Fayose described the local government as the closest to the people.

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