Ekiti 2014 Exposed: How APC Party Leaders Pressured Gov. Fayemi To Contest Election Result As New Evidences Of Rigging Emerge

Pressure by some leaders of All
Progressives Congress (APC), on
Governor Kayode Fayemi to recant his concession of victory to the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP)'s Ayodele Fayose in last
weekend's gubernatorial election
in Ekiti State has been rebuffed by
other party leaders.

Meeting in Abuja last night, the
party leaders resolved to forge
along with the outgoing governor's decision with a pledge to support him despite what some party apparatchiks claimed were increasing evidence of systematic rigging by the victorious PDP.

"We will not contest the decision," a party source present at the meeting told newsmen last night.

The pressure on Fayemi, it was learnt, came from many party leaders mostly from the South-West, who complained that the governor was too quick in conceding victory. They cited what they claimed as glaring evidence of election offences which they claim tilted victory to
Fayose.

"We will make a declaration in the next few days," one of the lawyers involved in the mobilisation of evidence for a possible petition told newsmen before the party elders took the decision to back Fayemi's concession of defeat.
Before the meeting, some of the senior party officials, were angered that Governor Fayemi took his stance without consulting the national leaders of the party.

Party leaders based in Lagos were taken aback by the concession speech of the governor, while
they were yet studying the development.
Among the evidence being compiled to present a petition, is the allegation that the ballot papers used in the election were scientifically
programmed to obliterate votes.

Party officials, it was learnt, were miffed by the result of some polling stations, where some of
the national leaders of the party voted with members of their families. In one instance, a
national leader of APC, who went to a polling station with 11 members of his family, was
enraged to find out that Fayemi scored one vote out of more than 50 votes recorded at the unit.
The APC, by its decision not to contest the declaration of Fayose as winner, sources said, is now
expecting PDP and the Presidency to show good faith in the forthcoming election and resolve
some past controversies including the debacle that split the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF,
last year.