Hold APC responsible if anything happens to Ekiti INEC office —Fayose

THE Ayo Fayose Campaign Organisation (AFCO) has urged Nigerians, especially the security agencies, to hold the All Progressives Congress (APC) responsible, if anything happens to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices in Ekiti State. Reacting to allegation of plan to burn the state INEC office by the APC, AFCO, in a statement issued by its director-general, Dipo Anisulowo, said “APC members should not be allowed to burn the INEC office in Ado- Ekiti the way they burnt the INEC office in Ido-/Osi Local Government, during the 2009 governorship rerun.” While describing the APC allegation as suspicious, Anisulowo said the security agencies must not treat such allegation with levity. “If they are saying that plans are being hatched for ‘strange fire’ occurrence at the INEC office in Ado Ekiti and all the materials relating to the just concluded governorship election will be burnt, security agencies must ask questions. “This is more so that the APC spokesperson, Mr Segun Dipe, who issued the statement on Wednesday, also knew that the fire incidence would be blamed on some faulty power surge, he (Segun Dipe) must be made to give further details on the alleged plot,” Anisulowo said. While saying that there could actually be plans by the APC to burn the INEC office, Anisulowo said; “The modus operandi of the APC and it members is to accuse others of planning to do what they have already set machinery in motion to do. “It is obvious that the APC as a party has tried to discredit the June 21 governorship election, by inventing various arguments, including claim that the election was photocromically rigged. “If the party is now coming up with allegation of plan to burn the INEC office, it could be a pointer to a sinister plot by the APC people to burn the INEC office so as to be able to sustain their argument that the election was rigged and that they would have succeeded in upturning the election results at the tribunal, if INEC office is burnt.”