Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has challenged the All Progressives Congress, APC, to tender the newly released audio clip at the tribunal as an evidence if it was so sure of its facts.

The minister, who described the alleged audio clip as a technological manipulation which cannot stand the test of time, said in a statement in Ado Ekiti, yesterday, that Governor Ayodele Fayose did not hold meetings on how to manipulate the election with anyone.

He said: “The APC people know where to go if they have evidence that the election was rigged.

“It is foolish for anyone to be crying that an election was rigged eight months after the election was held. This is more so that there was an election petition tribunal where the evidence ought to have been presented.

“No amount of campaign of calumny and blackmail can erase the fact that Ekiti people willingly elected Governor Fayose. APC is only chasing shadows having admitted earlier that Ekiti people indeed voted for Fayose but they did so because he gave them rice.”

Adeyeye said it was amusing that the same people who castigated Ekiti people for voting Fayose because of “stomach infrastructure,” are now saying that the election was rigged.

He said it was the APC that actually plotted to manipulate the election, using Information Technology and thuggery, but the heavy presence of the military foiled the plans.

Faulting the audio clip, Adeyeye said: “In this age of Information Technology, it is possible to even manipulate videos not to talk of audio. It is possible to make someone who cannot speak French to appear on video speaking French.

“It is also possible for the voice of someone who died 10 years ago to be manipulated such that he will appear as speaking on current issues. GSM providers are doing it by making one’s voice to appear like that of a celebrity.

“Therefore, APC should take their so-called audio clip to court where it will be subjected to proper scrutiny both legally and technologically rather than using the media to promote a dead issue.”

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