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The Ekiti State Chapter of the Labour Party has accused the Ekiti State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) of planning to clone people’s voters’ cards in a phony “Peace Concert” scheduled for the Melting Point, Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital today, Friday, March 21, 2014.
By requesting that people should come with their INEC Voters’ Cards as admission tickets into the venue of the concert further confirms the APC’s grand plot to fraudulently retrieve these voters’ cards from the people for the purpose of generating fake voters’ cards for use during the forthcoming gubernatorial elections. We strongly advise parents and guardians to appeal to their children and wards to stay away from this rally as it is obvious that it is another avenue by the outgoing government of Dr. Kayode Fayemi to deceive Ekiti youths into trading off their voting rights. It is common knowledge that the APC led government has a track record of deceiving and unleashing terror and violence on hapless and harmless youths and therefore not advisable for parents to allow their children and wards attend such frivolous and pretentious rally. It is rather unfortunate that a government that has totally neglected the youths who are the future of the state will now come around to stage a “Peace Concert” for them just to get their votes and forget about them so soon thereafter.
It is also a known fact that the government of Dr. Kayode Fayemi has been variously alleged of murdering in cold blood, promising Ekiti Youths like late Foluso Ogundare and Murphy Jeje. It is on record that the Kayode Fayemi administration has the unenviable record of breeding the highest number of unemployed youths since the creation of the state. What Ekiti youths need at this crucial time is a sober reflection on the anti-youth policies of the Fayemi led administration as well as sad memories of the loss of the duo of Foluso Ogundare and Murphy Jeje who among others, were cut down in their prime.
Convinced that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would not be a party to this unpatriotic act and desperate attempt to decimate a major symbol of democracy and commitment of our people to civic responsibility, we hereby call on the INEC and other relevant law enforcement agencies to immediately halt this process. We insist that INEC voters’ cards cannot be used for any other purpose other than voting and this vicious attempt by a politically drowning administration in Ekiti to trivialize the use of such an important and symbolic document and thereby set a bad precedent should be resisted by all men and women of conscience. Or what shall we say if another desperate aspirant goes to deposit money at a nude club and thereafter call on our youths to come in for free on presentation of INEC voters’ cards in an equally desperate attempt to retrieve and scan their data for whatever nefarious electoral purpose? Yet we all say Ekiti is a land of honour (Ile iyi, Ile eye); we cannot be seen to be pacesetters in such a condemnable act.
Definitely, it cannot be a bad idea for a sitting government to organize a concert for the youths of the state, but where it is tied to the “second term by all means” campaign of a governor who has abandoned the same youths for a larger period of his administration and in a manner that is capable of heating up the polity and compromising the electoral process, then it becomes entirely questionable and on this we stand as a party of the people and an embodiment of the hope of our teeming youths and workers who are the worst hit by the anti- people socio- economic policies of the Dr. Kayode Fayemi led administration which has ruled Ekiti from an Olympian height in the last three and half years. This nuisance must be abated by all and well meaning Ekiti people at home and in the diaspora.
