How Mimiko plans to rig Ondo election –President’s aide

Started by Sunexx360, Oct 15, 2012, 01:32 AM

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Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, Kinsley Kuku, yesterday alleged that Governor Olusegun Mimiko and the Labour Party (LP) were plotting to use security agents to rig the October 20 governorship election in the state.
He said all heads of the security agencies in the state had been compromised, vowing, however, to lead the people of the riverine areas of the state to resist any attempt to subvert their will.
Kuku, who spoke with journalists in Akure, said: "Today the LP has brought an Israeli team. An Israeli company is installing security gadgets in all the hilux vehicles that they havebought. They have bought so many in this state.
"They plan to give some to the army; they plan to give some to the police and they plan to give some to the thugs that they are training. I am not the first person saying this. Chief Tayo Alasoadura just made a full page advertorial on it. They are training thugs. The thugs will be sandwiched and protected by the army. They would move to places and the presence of the army will scare people away as they arrive.
"The thugs will come in, take ballot boxes andmove. The army will protect the thumb printing wherever they want to thumbprint them and they will bring them to INEC office in Akure and announce. This is the target they have. We have known all these and we are saying it."
Kuku stated that the only way that the election could be credible was for the officersof the Nigerian Army not use the vehicles provided by the state government.
"The Nigerian Army must resist using vehiclesfrom the state government because whoever pays the piper dictates the tune. It must not happen. That is the only way this election will be credible. The Navy at Igbokoda, we don't trust them. They have been compromised. They have taken so much money from the state government. Quote me.
"The army has taken so much money and the army I am talking about particularly is the army barracks at Okitipupa, the navy base at Igbokoda. They have been compromised. They meet regularly with the governor, they strategise, and they plan as if they belong to political parties.
"They did it in the National Assembly election against us. They have planned it this time again. If they try it in the riverine area, we willfight them. We will make the world know thatthey are very biased and that they are not credible officers."
Accusing Mimiko of undermining the amnestyprogramme of the Federal Government by rearming former militants in the coastal areasof the state under the guise of waterway security initiative because of the forthcoming election, Kuku added: "After the election, he will abandon them.

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