Military panel on Ekiti poll: Lawmakers pass resolution, warn Buhari

Members of Ekiti State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution warning President Muhammad Buhari against using the report of the military panel on Ekiti, Osun and Edo governorship elections to cause trouble in the state.
The legislators also added that the President and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) should not hide under any guise to attempt to cause confusion as such would be met with stiff resistance.
This was the highlight of the sitting of the Assembly in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.
The Speaker, Kola Oluwawole, who presided over the session, said it was unimaginable that an election locally and internationally acclaimed as free, fair and transparent, was being rubbished on the platter of politics by the APC and its leaders.
‎Setting the ball rolling, the Majority Leader, Tunji Akinyele, said Buhari instituted a military probe panel on Edo, Ekiti and Osun gubernatorial polls and wondered why nothing was said of the other states controlled by the APC.
“There was no loss of lives and no snatching or stuffing of ballot papers and boxes.‎ It was free and fair enough for Fayemi to accept the result and congratulate Fayose. International observers also acknowledged that it was free and fair and the military lauded for providing security and was recommended for subsequent polls.
“Because of the desperation of Buhari and APC to rubbish the poll and turn Nigeria to a one-party state, they came up with different evil plans.‎ Osun was left alone because it is an APC state. It is disheartening that an institution like the military can be rubbished for political reasons. Must Buhari rubbish the election because of Fayose’s criticism of his government?
“Ekiti people voted massively for PDP and Fayose and we have no apologies for that.‎ PDP won other subsequent polls last year, is it the military that rigged them all? Buhari must be careful about Ekiti politics because we are sensitive and we will resist any attempt to cause trouble in the state,” he said.
The Deputy Speaker, Adewunmi Olusegun, urged Buhari to be a true statesman and not allow himself to be misled “by some people aiming to get to office through the back door”.
Other contributors such as Jide Omotosho, Gboyega Aribisogan and Dayo Akinleye said the plan by Buhari and the APC was to muzzle Fayose and other opposition voices in the country.
They added that such plan would fail and warned of dire consequences if any attempt is made to truncate the people‎’s will freely expressed in the June 21, 2014 governorship election in the South-West state.
After exhaustive debate, the lawmakers passed a resolution moved by Akinyele and supported by Samuel Jeje.
The lawmakers condemned ‎the report of the Adeniyi Oyebade Panel which indicted the military after the institution had been given a pass mark by local and international observers.
They noted that the said ‎indictment of the military was an embarrassment to Nigeria and that the APC should stop its desperate bid to take power in the state through the back door.