Yar'Adua is unconvincing - Fayemi

By Adeolu Adeyemo - 15.05.2009

Candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in the governorship rerun in Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has expressed dissatisfaction with President Umaru Yar'Adua's reaction to the controversial election.

Fayemi, in a release signed by the Director of Communications of his campaign organisation, Mr. Yemi Adaramodu, yesterday, described the president's statement, that culprits in the rerun debacle would be brought to book as mere rhethoric and "the usual Presidential hollow ritual.

"It is regrettable that the recent declaration by President Yar’Adua to bring the culprits of Ekiti rerun election pogrom to book would remain in the realm of rhetoric and the usual presidential hollow ritual.

"Without a dressed probe by the president, we all know who had laid siege to the state months before the April 25 election. We had submitted to the authorities the tape of how one of the South-West irredentist PDP governors pledged fake army uniforms and arms in a parley with Ekiti Council helmsmen.

"Mr. Ayo Arise, one of the president’s partymembers in the Senate, had been reputed to be the godfather of thugs in Ekiti. He was apprehended in the midst of his roughnecks who were in possession of arms and charms.

Another of the PDP senators was caught with thugs and arms harboured in his private cocoon. These compromised senators and their army of miscreants were released without reprimand," he said.

Fayemi said it was expected of the president to have ensured the prosecution of top politicians who were guests of security agents on account of harbouring of thugs during the rerun exercise, adding that the president's promise looked like a ploy to lull the people of Ekiti State into submission.