Democracy dead under the APC - Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described the yesterday rerun National and State House of Assembly elections in Rivers State as a sad reminder of the level of destruction already done to the country’s electoral process by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying free, fair and credible election is dead in the country and whatever victory is recorded by any political party in Rivers State election is nothing but victory at gun-point. According to him, it was worrisome that the legacy of credible election left by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has been destroyed by the APC in less than two years as the APC has “merged with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the police, military and other security agencies.

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described the yesterday rerun National and State House of Assembly elections in Rivers State as a sad reminder of the level of destruction already done to the country’s electoral process by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying free, fair and credible election is dead in the country and whatever victory is recorded by any political party in Rivers State election is nothing but victory at gun-point. According to him, it was worrisome that the legacy of credible election left by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has been destroyed by the APC in less than two years as the APC has “merged with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the police, military and other security agencies.

Governor Fayose described President Buhari as a pretender, who has only paid lips service to the sustenance of democracy in the country, adding that “any president that looks the other way while the rights of his people to freely elect their leaders is being snatched at gunpoint by his own party men is not worthy of being associated with democracy.”