Afenifere Chieftain and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Ekiti State,
Prince Dayo Adeyeye has challenged former Lagos State University (LASU) Don, Prof Abubakar Momoh to sue him for libel as threatened saying; “I am waiting for him to go to court.”
Adeyeye had faulted the appointment of Prof Momoh as the Director General of The Electoral Institute (TEI), an institute under INEC that is responsible for training and electoral research, describing Momoh as an apologists of the opposition, All Progressives Congress (APC).
Responding through his lawyer, Mr Bamidele Aturu, Momoh had given Adeyeye a two-week ultimatum to retract the publication and demanded N20 million as damages.
However, in his reaction, Adeyeye, who spoke through the Deputy Director General of his campaign organisation, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement (PAAM), Chief Taiwo Olatubosun said; “If Momoh is not shameless, he would have quietly resigned his dubious appointment as TEI Director General instead of embarking on this face-saving attempt, threatening court action.
“However, before his lawyer, Bamidele Aturu begins the process of filing his court papers, let him ask his client (Momoh) the following questions; Was he (Momoh) not caught alongside Fuad Oki and others with already prepared election results in Ifaki-Ekiti during the 2009 rerun election?
“Was he alongside Fuad Oki and others not make spirited phone calls to Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, ADC to Governor Babatunde Fashola’s wife and other ACN leaders when they were arrested?
“Did he not appeared at the Tribunal as Prosecution Witness 37 where he gave evidence in support of Fayemi?
“Did he not admitted under cross-examination at the Tribunal that he was a member of the Governing Board of Fayemi’s Non Governmental Organisation, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and that he had related with Fayemi for over 30 years?
“Did he not also admitted under cross-examination at the Tribunal that it was Dr Azeez Olaniyan that provided the vehicle with which he moved around during the 2009 rerun election?
“Did Fayemi not later made the same Dr. Azeez Olaniyan, whose vehicle Momoh used, the Caretaker Chairman of Ekiti South-West Local Government when he became governor?
“As for us in PAAM, we maintain that with such a personality like Momoh now given a prominent position in INEC, his disposition and extent of the compromising capability in any electoral contest, especially the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti and Osun States, involving the opposition parties can better be imagined.
“Therefore, we are again warning long before the 2014 and 2015 elections so as to put Nigerians on the alert with respect to invidious plans to put booby traps in the way of transparent elections in the country, which is a negation of the national quest for saner polls.”