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Ekiti Stalemate: Foretaste of 2011 Elections-Atiku

April 27, 2009

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described the political situation in Ekiti State as “a deliberate and orchestrated stalemate which serves as a foretaste of the 2011 elections.”

 Without genuine electoral reforms as contained in the Justice Muhammadu Uwais Report, Atiku said in a statement released by his media office in Abuja yesterday, the 2011 elections will be worse than the infamous 2007 elections.



“The political crisis in Ekiti State has vindicated my position that the Peoples Democratic Party – led government does not have the political will to enthrone serious electoral reforms”.

“We do not need a soothsayer to know that the situation in Ekiti State portends a bad omen for the country in 2011. As long as INEC and other institution of state involved in electoral process are not free and independent and as long as their leadership owes their allegiance to those who appointed them, we can never have free and fair elections in Nigeria .”

“I saw it first hand in my own state of Adamawa in the re-run governorship election last year where the electoral umpires behaved in a way that clearly suggested that they were under strict instruction to deliver the state to the ruling party against the wishes of the Adamawa voters,” Atiku said.

Atiku called on President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and the PDP leadership to rise above the narrow and partisan interests to their party men and women in Ekiti State and allow the will of the people to prevail.

“That is the only way democracy can be served in the country. Democracy is not helped by this do-or-die attitude to elections. The PDP does not have to win every state. This is the time for statesmanship. Nigeria is already the laughing stock of the world for not being able to conduct a transparent and violence-free election in just a few electoral wards,” the statement concluded.

 

Signed:

 

Atiku Abubakar Media Office,

Jabi,

Abuja

 

28th -04- 2009

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