Smart Adeyemi Cries Out Over Kogi APC Guber Primaries, Says God Will Descend On INEC

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Smart Adeyemi has cried out over the just-concluded gubernatorial primary election in the state.

KanyiDaily recalls that a former Auditor General for Local Governments in Kogi, Ahmed Ododo won the Kogi APC governorship primary election on Friday.

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello endorsed Ahmed Ododo as his preferred governorship candidate, ahead of his deputy, Edward Onoja who recently withdrew from the primary.

Speaking on Arise Television on Monday, Smart Adeyemi claimed APC didn’t conduct any primary election because there was no voting anywhere there was no voting anywhere.

The former lawmaker, who described the situation as a ‘rape of democracy’, said that God will descend on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) if they claim that the APC primaries election took place.

He said, “About eight of us, apart from probably the man that was anointed, none of us has the privilege to vote. In essence, there was no voting anywhere. What they did was to write the result. It was a sham, It was a rape of democracy, It was a disgrace, a betrayal of all those who laid down their lives for the enthronement of democracy in Nigeria

“I have heard of rigging, if there was voting and we alleged rigging OK we will say were rigged out, but in this instance, we were at our polling unit at our ward secretariat, there was no material, nobody, what they did was to invite the chairmen of the local government areas including those of them who were said to have been suspended, were recall three days to the election and they were given a marching order, collect the material that from the panel that came from Abuja and they went to their closets and fill the forms and brought some 10 to 15 people within their compound and area and they said they have voted and that was the result.

“While we were still standing at our various wards, we contestants looked at each other. It was 11 o’clock, it was 12 nobody, 1 pm nobody. We were still there at 2 o’clock when we started hearing the results of the election.

“It is unimaginable. This is a new phenomenon that must not stand because if Kogi State gets away with this, other Governors will copy this. There was no election. Ask my colleague, ask the security service, and ask the INEC people unless they want God to descend on them. There was no voting.”

The Kogi State governorship election will take place on November 11 2023 as earlier announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).