Gov Fayose calls for Nnamani’s resignation
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Ekiti Governor Ayodele FayoseChairman Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum and Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has made a move asking the immediate resignation of former Senate President, Ken Nnamani as chairman of the Electoral Reform Committee for a non-partisan citizen to take over his position noting that “if the federal government is serious about electoral reform, Senator Nnamani, a card carrying member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won’t head the Electoral Reform Committee.”Gov Fayose who also said the country’s electoral system is alright, said: “It was the same electoral system that produced the present APC government of President Muhammadu Buhari, in an election adjudged as relatively free, fair and credible.“So what happened to the system after May 29, 2015 that this present government took over? How did we get to this level of inconclusive and questionable elections in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies appear to have become part of the ruling party?”Gov Fayose said in his presentation at the public hearing on constitution and electoral reform held at Ogun State Cultural Centre, Abeokuta today. At the public hearing he said; “Even when it inherited a working system that conducted elections adjudged as free and fair by local and international communities, INEC has failed consistently to replicate the inherited working system due to overzealousness and rabid passion to work as appendage of the federal government.“Imagine an election that is ongoing, only for INEC to postpone counting of votes by midnight, with the party agents driven away. Any result announced in the morning has lost any credibility and legitimacy and cannot represent the will of the people.”Represented by the Chairman, Ekiti State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Dr Samuel Omotoso, Gov Fayose pointed out that “The only time this country made an attempt at a reliable electoral reform was during the tenure of President Umaru Yar’Adua who appointed retired Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed Uwais as the chairman. This singular move gave the panel credibility, widespread acceptability and massive supports from all over the country and across political divides.“Such cannot be said of this panel that is overshadowed with massive moral burdens and conflict of interest as a result of the chairman being a card carrying member of a political party called APC.”He added that “Senator (Dr) Ken Nnamani, being the South-East regional leader of APC is incapable of rising above primordial and party sentiments to give Nigerians anything different from electoral inconclusiveness that we have at the moment.“Any reform from such encapsulation can as well be said to be dead on arrival.”Governor Fayose narrated that INEC as the promoter of electoral malpractices answerable to the present APC government, saying “INEC, security agencies need to purge themselves of all these putrid behaviours and face the reality of modern day democracy.“As Governor of Ekiti State, I have no reservation about reviewing and reforming our electoral process but I am reluctant about the sincerity of purpose deploy each time we display such political hallucinations under the guise of reforms, this has amounted severally to playing to the gallery and this committee just like others that have embarked on several wild goose chases in the past is not likely to be different”, the governor said.Discover more from NewsBreakers
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