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The opposition All Progressives Congress in the South-West has said that President Goodluck Jonathans visit to monarchs in the zone has no electoral value because the visit lacked strategic assessment that is capable of redeeming the Presidents image.

A statement by the Director of Media and Publicity, APC South-West, Ayo Afolabi, on Monday, noted that one of the wrong moves made by Jonathan was the imposition of some people who lacked the moral and charismatic features of leadership as governors, ministers and party leaders in Yoruba land.

It also said that the Ekiti State people had been suffering from lack of governance because the governor, Ayodele Fayose, had become a campaign manager for the President and had been using the state fund.

The statement read, The latest move by President Goodluck Jonathan to court the South-West monarchs ahead of 2015 general elections has no redemptive electoral value in the South-West because it is devoid of strategic assessment.

The strategic question the President and his campaign managers should have tried to answer before engaging on the rash moves is, how many of such desperate and impromptu meetings were needed before Yoruba people voted for him in 2011?

How much did President Jonathan spend to get Yoruba votes in 2011 and why should he think money will save him now? All other regions extracted several promises from President Jonathan in the race to 2011 elections except the South-West, which voted based on their firm convictions and commitment to justice and good governance.

No Yoruba person will be proud of those President Jonathan has imposed as leaders representing Yoruba people in different capacities, whether as governor, minister or party leaders. From all intent and purposes, governance has stopped in Ekiti State as the governor has been functioning more as a campaign manager with the resources of Ekiti people than as a governor. Ekiti people deserve better than they currently get.

The statement further questioned the Presidents motive for meeting the Yoruba monarchs at the weekend, concluding that voters in the region would be guided by their belief and conscience despite Jonathans visit.

It said, The South-West APC is confident that Yoruba monarchs and voters are conscious of the implications of a Greek Gift and as the bastion of democratic justice and good governance, they will vote true to their cultural identity that loathes tyranny, corruption and nepotism.

In fact, activities in the Presidency in the last few weeks have confirmed that Jonathan did not realise the need for governance until it is evident that Nigerians have already embraced the opportunity of change offered by the APC. In the last five years, the Jonathan administration has shown unbearable contempt for the region and its people and their values, especially in the attempt to adulterate their leadership values.

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The All Progressives Congress in Osun State has described the video clip in circulation which shows some persons allegedly thumb- printing for the candidate of the party during the last governorship election in the state as an afterthought.

The APC said this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Sunday by its spokesperson, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi.

The Chairman of the party in Osun State, Mr. Gboyega Famoodun, had on Friday addressed a press conference where he claimed that the video was a concoction of the PDP to justify why its candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, lost the August 9th, 2014 poll.

The APC said the PDP resorted into producing the video clip to shift the attention of Nigerians away from the crime it committed in collaboration with some security agents during the governorship poll in Ekiti State.

The statement read, Omisore argued for 180 days at the tribunal and his petition was meticulously dismantled in a landmark judgment that lasted over seven hours by the three-man panel which struck it out as unworthy.

What would have gone wrong with the PDP chieftain, who had this so-called video clip evidence that he could have presented at the tribunal, but failed to do so.

Did Omisore seriously think that the Court of Appeal will accommodate this after-thought? The reason that video was not presented to the tribunal in the first instance was because it was fake.

The APC had gotten wind of the production of the particular video since November last year and had informed security forces accordingly. This move was in part, what prevented the PDP from presenting it at the Tribunal as was their original plan.

If the PDP lawyers rested the worthless video because it could not fly at the tribunal, what banal reasoning would have informed the PDP spin doctors now making silly noises about it as a publicity material?

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dragged the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over alleged attack on its members and supporters in the state.

The commission has restated its determination to ensure that anybody found culpable of promoting violence and hate speech is prosecuted no matter how highly placed.

In a petition submitted to the commission by the APC Secretary in Ekiti State, Omotosho Ayodele, the party accused the governor of sponsoring political violence in the state including the use of thugs to physically attack and intimidate opposition party members in the state.

According to Ayodele, "we are over the present political situation in Ekiti State, we, Nigerians, are all busy praying for peace, but what we have in Ekiti State is a clear departure from that. The commission is clamouring for violence-free polls, and we are aware of the determination of the commission to bring perpetrators of violence in the polls to book. Unfortunately, the person who is supposed to be the chief security officer in Ekiti State is the person perpetrating this violence in the state. Fayose's boys are always on the streets attacking people, damaging vehicles and houses; in spite of various petitions to the police, nothing has been done.

"Governor Fayose does his things with impunity and nobody challenges him, and with what we have seen so far, we can no longer guarantee violence-free elections in Ekiti State. The activities of Fayose are undermining the peace pact signed by our Presidential candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and President Goodluck Jonathan," he added.

He further alleged that "on January 21,2015, Fayose's thugs and members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) dressed in army and police uniforms backed by policemen attached to the Government House ransacked and vandalised APC Secretariat on Ajilosun Street, Ado-Ekiti, while the security guards on duty were physically assaulted. On January 24, Adeleke Samson, a student's union leader, who attended APC Presidential rally in Ado-Ekiti with his colleagues, was attacked by Mr. Fayose's thugs. He had a life-threatening injuries on his head.

While receiving the petition, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Prof. Ben Angwe, restated the commission's determination to bring the promoters of violence and hate speech during and after the 2015 general elections to book.

His words: "The National Human Rights Commission is for all Nigerians, irrespective of religion, ethnicity, and political affiliation. I want to commend you for taking this cause of action and not taking the laws into your hands. Your allegations are against a sitting governor, which have consequences, because if they are false, they portend serious consequences, and if they are true they still have consequences.

"We at the commission are not happy about these allegations, we are determined to ensure that people get justice whenever their rights are abused. It will be sad if the allegations are proved against an executive governor who has sworn an oath to protect lives and properties.

"Africa should move away from the days of President Idi Amin of Uganda where people's rights are trampled upon with impunity. Nigeria has empowered the commission to ensure that impunity is stamped out, and by this singular act of empowering the commission to do its job, we are committed to ensuring that the culture of impunity is a thing of the past.

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