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Fayose to FG: You‘re planning emergency rule in Zamfara

25th December 2018
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WOLE BALOGUN, Ado Ekiti

The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has accused the Federal government of plotting to hide under the killings in Zamfara State by armed bandits to impose emergency rule on the state, warning “the All Progressives Congress (APC) led administration not to hide under its own failure to secure the lives of Nigerians to achieve its selfish partisan agenda.”

Fayose, who is the South West Coordinator of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council alleged that the plot was a response to the insistence of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow the APC to field candidates for the 2019 general elections in Zamfara State as a result of failure to comply with the Electoral Act.

In a statement personally signed by him on Tuesday, the former governor alleged that the Federal government plot was aimed at paving way for a fresh electoral process in the state so that APC can field candidates.

“With the emergency rule, there will only be Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state in February next year while governorship and state House of Assembly elections will be postponed till May,” he said.

READ ALSO: Kano Election Peace Committee condemns recent political violence at rallies

He advised the Federal government to admit its failure and apologise to the people of Zamfara State, who were left at the mercy of armed bandits, noting that “using the killings to achieve political goal is not only wicked but inhuman.”

Fayose said the Federal government must be reminded that: “Under the PDP government of Dr Goodluck Jonathan, emergency rule was declared in three states in the North East without dismantling democratic institutions.

The former governor also urged the Zamfara Sate governor, Abdul-aziz Yari Abubakar,  to stand up for his people and democracy so as to save the country from going under, adding: “I’m aware that the governor is abroad and I advise that he should return home. This is the time for him to be a man and stand in defence of his people rather than standing with their oppressors.”

He called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the APC-led Federal government to avoid jeopardising democracy in the country by going ahead with its plot to manipulate the 2019 general elections like it was done in the Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections.

Tags: 2019 general electionsAPCayodele fayoseemergency ruleINECPDPZamfara State
Ajiri Daniels

Ajiri Daniels

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