Pressure mounted by some leaders of All Progressives Congress, APC, on Governor Kayode Fayemi to recant his concession of victory to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Ayodele Fayose in last weekend’s gubernatorial election in Ekiti State has been rebuffed by party leaders.
At a meeting in Abuja Tuesday night, party leaders resolved to forge along with the outgoing governor’s decision with a pledge to support him despite what some party apparatchiks claimed were increasing evidence of systematic rigging by the victorious PDP.
The pressure on Fayemi, according to inside sources came from many party leaders mostly from the South-West, who complained that the governor was too quick in conceding victory, citing what they claimed as glaring evidence of election offences which they claim tilted victory to Fayose.
“We will make a declaration in the next few days,” one of the lawyers involved in the mobilisation of evidence for a possible petition had said before the party elders took the decision to back Fayemi’s concession of victory.
Before the meeting, some of the senior party officials were angered that Governor Fayemi took his stance without consulting the national leaders of the party.
Among the evidence being compiled to present a petition, sources said, is the allegation that the ballot papers used in the election were scientifically programmed to obliterate votes.
Party officials, it was learnt, were miffed by the result of some polling stations, where some of the national leaders of the party voted with members of their families.
In one instance, a national leader of APC, who went to a polling station with 11 members of his family, was enraged to find out that Fayemi scored one vote out of more than 50 votes recorded at the unit.
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