blower who exposed a plan by high-level officers of the Nigerian Army as well
as top officials of the Peoples Democratic Party to rig a governorship election
in Ekiti State, has returned to Nigeria.
SaharaReporters exclusively published 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.
Captain Koli had to flee Nigeria once PDP top officials as well as the military realized
that he had secretly taped conversations of the highly criminal conspiracy to intimidate
voters in Ekiti State and 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 source at Aso Rock told SaharaReporters that Captain Koli had a brief audience with
President Muhammadu Buhari upon his return to Nigeria.
The Nigerian military source also established a board of 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.
SaharaReporters was not able to determine the exact location of Captain Koli in Nigeria.
However, our military source disclosed that the army was in touch with the captain.
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