Show Full Video Recording Of NGF Elections, Mimiko Dares Amaechi Faction

faction ngfOndo State Governor and factional Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Governor Olusegun Mimiko, yesterday, challenged the Governor Rotimi Amaechi faction to release to the public the complete video recording of the chairmanship election that held last week Friday.

Speaking at the 2013 Democracy day lecture in Akure, the State capital, Mimiko said that the Amaechi faction only released a 10 minutes part of the video that suits their “pre-determined agenda.”

According to him, “Nigerians should ask the Pro-Amaechi’s group why he presided over an election which he is also contesting. I specifically raised that issue and insisted that he must resign but his supporters maintained that he should supervise the poll as a sitting chairman.

“They asked me whether I resigned my position while seeking a re-election for a second term in office and I replied them that it was not the same thing because the NGF is like an association not a democratic institution which had its existence entrenched in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“When it was obvious that we could not guarantee the source of the ballot boxes and papers brought by Amaechi, I protested again that we should conduct the election openly by raising up our hands in support of our preferred candidate, again, they rejected it.

“The ballot papers they produced were without serial numbers and we discovered this was a fraud, hence there were protests.

“They never captured all these facts in their video but merely recorded the fraction of the process which was in line with their pre-determined agenda.”

The Democracy lecture entitled “Democracy, Security and Development: The Challenges of Ondo State As A Catalyst Agent”, was delivered by Prof Bola Akinterinwa, the Director General, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs NIIA.

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