The APC is claiming that some of their governors have been barred from landing their private planes in Akure ahead of the June 21st governorship election in the state. The leadership of the opposition party verbally expressed while APC Bellwether, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, managed to land his plane, Governors Rabiu Kwankwaso and Adams Oshiomhole weren't so fortuitous as their planes were gainsaid the rights to land at the Akure Airport.
Governor Rotimi Amaechi, who additionally managed to evade the airport security, was allegedly ceased by soldiers from proceeding to Ekiti by road.
The APC governors and bellwethers are going to Ado for the party's final campaign & to show solidarity to the incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi. Continue...
In a verbal expression issued in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party verbally expressed at least three Governors - Adams Oshiomhole of Edo, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers and Rabiu Kwankwanso of Kano - have so far been averted from making the peregrination.
It verbalized the helicopter that was to ferry Gov. Oshiomhole from Benin to Ado-Ekiti was relucted sanction to take off from the Benin Airport, while the plane that was flying Gov. Kwankwanso to Akure was gainsaid sanction to land.
According to the APC, while the plane carrying Gov. Amaechi genuinely landed in Akure, his convoy was ceased at the border between Ondo and Ekiti States and injuctively authorized to turn back, because he would not be sanctioned to reach Ado-Ekiti.
The party verbally expressed while Gov. Amaechi's convoy was being detained in order to coerce him to turn back, the convoys of the Ministers of Defense and Police Affairs came and were sanctioned to pass.
''These acts are illicit and definitely not in line with the Electoral Act, which stipulates that campaign for the election will only end at midnight on Friday.
''It additionally represents a manipulation of the electoral process when all the candidates will not be sanctioned a caliber playing field to campaign for the election. There is no more pellucid manifestation of the federal regime's allergy to liberate, fair, transparent and violence-free election than this.
''Several months ago, we admonished that Nigeria under the time exhibiter of President Goodluck Jonathan was sliding into fascism and we were pilloried in certain quarters for daring to make such a verbalization. Today, we have dolefully been vindicated.
''Not even in the worst days of the abhorrent military dictatorship were things done this brazenly, with citizens being gainsaid their fundamental rights of free kineticism, free assembly and free expression, all because of the desperation by the ruling party to win elections at all costs.
''We therefore call on all good people of Nigeria and indeed all the country's international friends to verbalize out against what is transpiring afore things get out of hand. If democratically-elected Governors could be so shabbily treated, despite the high office they occupy, what will transpire to mundane Nigerians in the hands of an increasingly-fascist regime?'' The party verbalized
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Ado-Ekiti, June 19th 2014
