Adams Oshiomhole
National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, says the party would not allow any form of rigging in the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti.
He stated this on Friday in Abuja in reaction to Governor Ayo Fayose’s allegation that the APC had plans to rig the election using federal government might.
Oshiomhole maintained that Dr Kayode Fayemi, a former governor of the state and the APC candidate for the election, was tested and trusted and was capable of winning the state for the party.
The APC chairman alleged that Fayose got into office through election rigging using the instruments of the Peoples Democratic Party, but stated that such instrument was no longer at the governor’s disposal.
As stated by him, the APC has dismantled the PDP rigging instrument because as democrats, it does not want to copy such act.
“For us, the PDP rigging machine is not something we want to copy; what we did was to dismantle it.
“I think what Fayose can complain about is that he was not used to winning an election on the basis of merit; this time, those instruments of rigging are not available to him.
“Now, he must learn to persuade the people to win election,” Oshiomhole said.