A human rights activist, Mr. Morakinyo Ogele, on Friday condemned the posting of Mrs Ayoka Adebayo to Ondo State as the new State Resident Electoral Commissioner.
In a statement he issued and made available to our correspondent in Akure, Ogele alleged that the posting of Adebayo as Ondo State REC was another strategy designed by the Peoples Democratic Party to rig the 2010 general election in the state.
He, therefore, called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to redeploy Adebayo in order to guarantee a free and fair election in the state next year.
He alleged that under Adebayo as the Ekiti State REC during the last governorship re-run election, the poll was ”massively, crudely and shamelessly rigged.”
He said, ”There was a triangular criminal alliance between INEC, Police and PDP in stealing people‘s votes. It is on record that she offered herself to PDP to rig the said election.
”Posting her to Ondo State is a confirmation of Chief Obasanjo‘s declaration that the state must be captured by PDP in 2011.”
Ogele also alleged that Adebayo was under the control of Obasanjo even before she was appointed as a REC and therefore, would not be impartial.
”I hereby put the chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, on notice that Mrs Ayoka Adebayo, will contaminate his acknowledged integrity if left to conduct any election under him.
”Jega should within seven days remove her from Ondo State to allow peaceful, fair and free election in the state,” the activist added.
He said that if Jega failed to remove Adebayo, he would organise the masses in black shirts on a peaceful demonstration in the state and equally file a writ of mandamus compelling the INEC boss to remove her through legal process.
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