PREMIUM TIMES has watched with consternation the proceedings in the Senate regarding the confirmation of one of President Goodluck Jonathan’s latest nominees for ministerial appointment in his cabinet: Senator Musiliu Obanikoro. Our consternation has to do with the recklessness of the president’s nomination of Senator Obanikoro to be a minister at the present time.
The whole world is aware of his role in the purported rigging of the Ekiti State gubernatorial election of June 21, 2014. As revealed in the now famous recording by the military intelligence officer, Captain Sagir Koli, Mr. Obanikoro, as Minister of State for Defence, was involved in a June 20 meeting with the Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, and the then governorship candidate of the PDP in Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, where the alleged plan to rig the election through illegal means was being considered. Others at the meeting included an erstwhile governorship candidate of the PDP in Osun State, Iyiola Omisore, and Aliyu Momoh, an army general, and military commander in the state.
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