According to Sahara Reporters, Captain Sagir Koli, the whistle blower who exposed a plan by high-level officers of the Nigerian Army as well as top officials of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to rig the Ekiti State governorship election that produced Governor Ayo Fayose has returned to Nigeria.
Audiotapes recorded by Captain Koli in which the PDP’s governorship candidate, Ayo Fayose, the then Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, former Defense Minister Musiliu Obanikoro, former Governor Iyiola Omisore of Osun State, and a military officer, Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, discussed strategies for rigging the governorship election in Ekiti State has leaked…
Captain Koli flee Nigeria once PDP top officials as well as the military realized that he had secretly taped and leaked conversations of the highly criminal conspiracy to rig the election for PDp’s Fayose.
Their plot which was carried out was to thwart the reelection bid of then Governor Kayode Fayemi. The tapes, which revealed the PDP officials trying to blackmail General Momoh whilst also offering him financial inducement, created a political scandal known as #Ekitigate.
After the whistleblower eluded the ferocious military and PDP dragnet that sought to capture and punish him, military authorities detained his younger brother and harassed other members of his family.
A top source told Sahara Reporters that Captain Koli had a brief audience with President Muhammadu Buhari upon his return to Nigeria.
The military has commenced inquiry to “investigate, among other things, alleged malpractices and involvement of military personnel in Ekiti and Osun States’ Gubernatorial Elections in 2014.”
The army recently redeployed Brigadier General Momoh, the lead military player in the Ekiti electoral fraud, to the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) in Minna, Niger State. General Momoh’s new post is seen as a demotion, said an army source.