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The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has unanimously strucked out Eleka's case and declared Fayemi as the duly elected governor of Ekiti State. Eleka, who contested under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had filed a petition against Fayemi of All Progressives Congress, APC,  alleging series of election irregularities and malpractices.

The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has berated the President and the All Progressives Congress, APC for “turning “executive lawlessness into statecraft”. He said this in a state of the nation address on Monday morning. Below is the text of the former Vice President’s address: “Yet again, our dear country is passing through a difficult moment. How we react to this challenge in the following days will determine the fate of our democracy, which has been brought to great peril by this needless crisis engineered by a government that is unwilling to subject its conducts to the requirements of our constitution. Meanwhile, I commend all Nigerians and friends of Nigeria who have expressed outrage over the unlawful removal of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, an action, which constitutes a flagrant breach of our constitution and a frontal assault on our democracy. I want to note the universal condemnation of this

Emerging facts have shown that the Hon. Minister for Transport, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi is the brain behind the dissolution of the Niger Delta Development Commission board, and the appointment of Prof. Nelson Brambaifa as the MD of the interventionist agency.  Available information reveals that Mr Amaechi bypassed the Secretary to Federal government, Mr. Boss Mustapha, in dissolving the NDDC board.  According to available information, Amaechi has for long sought for the removal of Mr. Derek .L. Mene, who is said to be an ally of Magnus Abe, who the Transport minister is having a running battle of supremacy with, in the Rivers state All Progressives Congress.  Amaechi was said to have written a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, requesting the dissolution of the board of the interventionist agency. This was said to have been overridden by the SGF, Boss Mustapha, who made it known that the offices are tenured, thus advised against the dissolution. On Friday, the 25th of