By Precious Ireoluwa
The Social Democratic Party in Ekiti State has cried out to Ekiti indigens home and abroad as well as, well meaning Nigerians to prevail on the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State not to strangulate democracy in the state through their antidemocratic moves.
This call was made by the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Dr Dele Ekunola, while addressing press at the party secretariat, along Ado/Ilawe-Ekiti Expressway, Ado Ekiti, citing the covert moves by the APC to circumvent justice by using the tribunal to remove the two elected House of Assembly members that are to be inaugurated in June.
The visibly enraged chairman declared: “We must cry out now. We did not cry out during the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal of which the outcome shocked the people of Ekiti unsatisfactorily “.
“I want to remind you that these are the people parading themselves as democrats but engaging in antidemocratic process. They don’t believe in the rule of law. All what they believe is to use the backdoor to achieve their aims without considering the aftermath effect on the generality of the people”.
The Chairman further noted that all what APC in Ekiti State is working towards is to turn Ekiti State into one party system.
Dr Ekunola further stressed, “Look at the time in Ekiti State when we had 13/13 House of Assembly members, we had a robust and progressive legislation which brought tremendous development to Ekiti State but these APC in Ekiti State doesn’t want opposition at all, but Ekiti people will resist their antidemocratic moves to hijack the two House of Assembly members-elect from Ise/Orun and Ekiti East Constituencies”.
” We are calling on notable Ekiti indigens and Nigerians to help us prevail on the Ekiti APC to stop their nefarious activities to highjack these two seats through illegal judicial means with the intention to outrightly disallowing opposition in Ekiti State’.
It would be recalled that the SDP in Ekiti State won Ise/Orun and Ekiti East Constituency 1 seats at the just concluded House of Assembly election which have Tunde Omotayo and Dele Ogunsakin as elected members to represent their various constituencies at the state parliament to be inaugurated next month.