The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has berated the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) over the alleged theft of exhibits from the custody of the
Benue State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, saying “Time has come for these fraudulent and desperate characters in ACN to be made to answer for their crimes.”
State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Bola Olu-Ojo, while reacting to the reported thefts tendered before the Benue State Tribunal by the ACN and its governorship candidate, Prof Steve Ugbah, in the April 26, 2011 governorship election, asked rhetorically, “when will these people stop perpetrating fraud and rubbishing our judiciary?”
He called for a thorough investigation into the disappearance and reappearance of the exhibits, especially how the ACN lawyer, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) came about the exhibits, bearing in mind that the same Akeredolu was also involved in the alleged forgery of Police report in the Osun State election petition between Rauf Aregbesola and Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
“From what just happened in Benue State, it is very clear that these band of crooks in the ACN are not relenting in their criminality ways.
“They have taken the same criminal acts they used to take Ekiti, Edo and Osun States to the North Central and it has become necessary that they are made to account for their crimes.
“As at today, the case of those four officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that perpetrated ‘ibo lehin ibo’ (voting after voting) on behalf of the Caretaker Chairman of Ekiti East Local Government, Mrs. Alaba Omonusi, is still shrouded in mystery. No one knows what INEC is doing about it.
“It was these same ACN people that forged affidavits and SSS reports in Ekiti. They also went to the extent of tampering with tribunal exhibits. Now they have done the same in Benue State.
“Therefore, time has come for these people to be tamed, else, they will destroy every facet of our national life and Nigeria will is already being the worst for it.”