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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Rescheduled LG polls: Police officers indict Fayose By Gbenga Ariyibi Friday, August 20, 2004 ADO-EKITI — TWO police officers attached to Ekiti State police command yesterday told Election Petition Tribunal how the State  Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose allegedly disrupted the conduct of April 3, 2004 rescheduled council polls in Ekiti South-West  Local Government. The police officers, Taiwo Balogun and Titilope Aratile who were in the witness box in Ado Ekiti yesterday alleged that  Governor  Fayose stormed the council area with retinue of mobile policemen and some soldiers with fake name tags to hijack  ballot boxes at the various voting centers. The evidence of the two officers came on the heels of the various petitions filed by the candidates of Alliance for Democracy  (AD), National Conscience Party (NCP) and all Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), calling for the nullification of the result of the  election, won by Mr. Joseph Omolase of the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP). The trio of Alhaji Remi Badmus (AD) Chief Michael Ajasin (NCP) and Chief (Mrs) Abike Olowoporoku (ANPP) had dragged  Omolase to the tribunal calling for the nullification of his election on the ground that the election did not take place in the council  area on April 3, 2004. In her own evidence, Titi Aratile a  mobile police officer attached to the local government equally testified that the governor;  hijacked the ballot box at her centre. She said: “I was posted to the poling unit 11, at ward 11 in Ilawe-Ekiti at about 9.30 am. Governor Ayo Fayose came to the  ward with mobile policemen and soldiers, and  said he wanted us to cooperate. I said how and he replied that  he wanted to  collect the papers and cast them inside the box. But when I said no the governor replied that if I did not agree, they will carry the  ballot box away. “Then I said our Divisional Police Officer had told us that the safety of the ballot box was our duty at the polling unit. The  governor ordered those who followed him to carry the box, but I struggled with them. They then pushed  me aside”. Under cross-examination, the police woman said her information about the conduct of the election should be relied upon than  that of the commissioner of police who was not in position to witness the exercise.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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