Group Tells INEC To Protect Election Materials, Reveals APC Plot

 
A group known as the Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement (PAAM) on Thursday told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to protect all the election materials used during the June 21 governorship election held in Ekiti State.
According to Daily Independent, the group, who made the call in a statement issued by its Director General, Bisi Kolawole, said it uncovered a desperate plot by the All Progressive Congress (APC) to mar the election results by replacing the used ballot papers with those already printed in China.The Ekiti election has restored INEC credibility and the electoral commission must guard jealously, all materials used for the election, the group said.PAAM further revealed that manipulating used electoral materials was APCs specialty as shown in the 2011 polls.The APC people are already boasting of getting the election results voided and their confidence is as a result of nothing other than the assurance that election materials in INEC custody will be tampered with. This is more so as the APC people are not new to what is known as ibo lehin ibo (voting after voting), as they did in 2011 when they paid four staff of INEC to doctor materials used in Ekiti East Constituency 2 House of Assembly election in 2011.The group said although the four INEC staff, whom he gave the names as Ajayi Gbenga, Ojo Oluwafemi, Oni Babajide and Olusola Oladapo, were arrested and subsequently arraigned in an Ado Ekiti Magistrate Court on eight-count charge of alleged tampering with electoral materials used for the House of Assembly election in April.Therefore, if we are getting information that APC leaders have perfected plot to replace ballot papers in INEC custody with fresh ones, using unscrupulous INEC officials, we cannot keep silent because it happened before and it must not be allowed to happen again, the group said.It would be recalled that the incumbent Governor of Ekiti State, and flag bearer of the APC, Fayemi Kayode, was defeated in the just concluded Ekiti State governorship election by PDP candidate, Ayodele Fayose, and, in its reaction, the APC national body resolved to challenge the election in court.