Jonathan’s excuse for not probing Ekiti tape, Means That He's hiding something - APC

The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday
described President Goodluck Jonathan's reason for
the delay in probing the Ekiti rigging audio tape as
untenable and an after-thought.
The APC said the President's "waffling" on the issue
showed that he might have something to hide.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in London, the opposition
party said the President was wrong to have said the
rigging audio tape had not been investigated because
the army captain who leaked it had not come forward
to authenticate it.
The statement party read, "Some people were found
to be undermining democracy using a powerful
national institution like the military, and all the
President could say is that there will be no
investigation until the officer who secretly recorded
the tape has come forward to authenticate it. What a
disingenuous argument.
"Is the President not aware that Capt. Sagir Koli, who
recorded the tape, went into hiding because his life
was in danger?
"Is the President not aware of the fate that befell
Capt. Koli's 15-year-old younger brother who was
arrested and tortured at a military facility in Ibadan
over the issue?
"Does the President not appreciate the patriotism
which the officer exhibited by exposing those who
criminally subverted democracy?''

The party queried the basis on which the President
declared the audio tape a fabrication when he had
not listened to it, and when almost all those who
were at the rigging meeting, including ex-Minister of
State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro; Governor
Ayodele Fayose; ex-minister, Jelili Adesiyan; and the
Osun PDP governorship candidate, Iyiola Omisore,
had owned up to attending the meeting.
"Obanikoro invoked the President's name, saying he
sent him to clinch victory for the PDP in the Ekiti
governorship election.

"Unless the statement made by Obanikoro is true, the
President has no business seeking to delay, even for
one day, the investigation into the very serious
allegations contained in the tape," the APC said.
Mohammed said the presence of Capt. Koli was not a
necessary pre-condition for an investigation into the
rigging allegation.

"For the avoidance of doubt, no matter how long it
takes, we will ensure that all those involved in the
Ekiti show of shame are brought to justice,'' the
vowed.