The Olusola Oke Campaign Organisation (OCO) of Ondo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday alerted the public to an alleged clandestine move by a top Judiciary official to subvert the October 20 governorship election.
It condemned the government’s and the official’s alleged plan “to truncate the electoral process in the state and make nonsense of both the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC’s) and Federal Government’s records of transparent elections”.
In a statement yesterday in Akure, the state capital, OCO said “the subversion of the state elections comes in the form of an evil partnership” between the Judiciary official and Governor Olusegun Mimiko to have the PDP candidate in the next month elections, Chief Olusola Oke, disqualified.
It added: “As we have consistently maintained, the plot of the drama is clear, though simplistic but lethal: get a few Judases in the PDP, pay them in worthless coins and cloth them as a disgruntled PDP faction.”
OCO said the official “is not just a chieftain of the LP in Ondo State, he is also a financier, a known arbitrator and overt host of party functions and caucuses in his country home”.
The official is said to have “in a party decision extract, dated same day, signed and underwrote as the Leader of the LP in ...Akoko North West Local Government Area, the document ratifying the list of consensus executives of the party”.
OCO added that the official “not only signed as the ward’s Grand Patron but also in company of 15 quarters’ leaders and Debo Adepoju, Chief Olaku Adeniyi, Mr. Tope Adebambo and Felix Ogunmilade, who also signed as party leaders.
The organisation noted that it is odd and ridiculous that the official is a politician and LP chieftain yet maintains a sensitive position in the Judiciary of the state.
“This is the dirty underbelly of men in high places in our state; men who parade themselves as progressives and lovers of democratic norms.
“…We are raising this fundamental travesty of the principle of justice and equity to expose the customary style of subversion, hypocrisy and endemic corruption, which are trademarks of the Mimiko administration.
“Indeed, Nigerians can now see how much of corruption and indiscipline have subverted democracy and electoral process since 2009 in Ondo State.”
Source: The Nation.
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