Politics: Aluko Exposes Gov Fayose, Says We Planned Ekiti Rigging In Hotel

Ex-PDP Secretary in Ekiti State, Dr. Tope Aluko, has said that the plot to rig the June 21, 2014 governorship poll in the state was perfected inside a hotel, about seven days before the election.


Aluko said the hotel belonged to a top state government official, adding that sensitive materials such as the ballot papers and result sheets were delivered to PDP chieftains by INEC at the hotel.

Speaking on an interview programme on Adaba 88.9 FM, Akure, on Wednesday, Aluko said that the electoral materials were delivered through the Akure Airport.

He claimed that INEC ballot papers were forged and result sheets filled by some PDP members, which gave the party an edge long before voters went to the polls.

Aluko explained that the operatives of the DSS led by a female officer stormed the hotel and arrested the PDP members perfecting the rigging but that they were released within three hours, following the intervention of the then President Goodluck Jonathan-led Government.

He disclosed that a lorry conveying some of the electoral materials delivered through the Akure Airport was the one intercepted by soldiers led by the recently retired Brig.-Gen. Aliyu Momoh.

According to him, the materials were later released after the officers received an ‘order from above’.

He said, “Fayose told me that Ekiti people are easy to deceive because by the time you buy them ‘ponmo’ and ‘booli’, you have stolen their hearts’. It was there that our crisis started