By Dayo Johnson
AKURE—THE Conference of Nigerian Political Parties in Ondo State yesterday called on the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mrs Ayoka Adebayo to honour her resignation that was publicly tendered in April 2009 and which had not been withdrawn till date.

Its Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Bola Ilori in a statement expressed dismay on the statement made by the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof, Attahiru Jega on the appropriateness of posting Adebayo to Ondo.

According to the statement, “we see Jega’s readiness to vouch for the ‘credibility’ of Mrs Adebayo after the well known Ekiti show of shame last year as proof that Jega is play-acting on the much celebrated commitment of the new INEC to conduct credible election in this country.

“We believe that Jega knows the antecedents of Mrs. Adebayo and her alleged close relationship with former president, Olusegun Obasanjo; a relationship that was called into play when she was needed to recant on her insistence that she would not announce a cooked up result for the purpose of swinging victory to the PDP in the infamous Ekiti bye election of April 2009.

“Even if Jega claims ignorance of Adebayo’s close liaison with Obasanjo, we hope he knows about the lousy boast of Obasanjo recently that he must conquer Ondo State for his political courtiers in the next election.

“Ondo CNPP wants to even give Jega the benefit of knowing the above serious issues but we would not forgive him if he claims ignorance of the shameful maneuvers that attended the shameless mockery that was brought to bear on the Ekiti bye elections in April 2009, with Mrs. Adebayo in the center of it all.

“We do not want to believe that Jega was so uninformed not to know of the scurrilous drama of resignations and being forced by desperate presidency officials to come out and announce the PDP as winner, despite her resignation, after a clearly forged result was smuggled in from Ido Osi for that purpose.”

They asked the INEC Boss “to realize that Adebayo had publicly resigned as REC in April 2009 and that she had not withdrawn the letter till date.

“So, to the best of the knowledge of Nigerians Mrs Ayoka Adebayo has no more business in INEC, whatever she now does in that position remains null, void and of no effect”, the statement said