Contrary to the blatant denial of
former Minister of State for
Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro,
and the Governor of Ekiti State,
Ayo Fayose, that they were
involved in a meeting where
strategies for rigging the 2014
Ekiti State governorship election
were discussed, the Minister of
Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan,
who was also at the meeting,
has admitted that the meeting
actually took place.
A recording of the meeting,
which also featured other top
officials of the government and
Aliyu Momoh, a Brigadier
General, was leaked last week.
Mr. Adesiyan, however, said the
conversation in the leaked tape
was an altercation between Mr.
Fayose and Mr. Momoh after the
former accused the later of
being bribed by the then
incumbent governor of the state,
Kayode Fayemi.
“Fayose accused the General
who supervised the Ekiti
election of taking bribe from
Fayemi and APC, that was two
days before the election. They
called me because they said the
General disarmed policemen and
I told him to allow the
policemen to do their job,” he
told the Sunday Punch
newspaper.
“I was there, Fayose was there,
Otunba Omisore was there,
Senator Obanikoro was there. I
am not denying that there was a
conversation but it was not what they are
saying.
“Nigerians are not dummies. These people are
mischievous; somebody recorded the scene
but let everybody listen to it. Listen to it
yourself and get back to me.”
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