Fake Opinion Polls Won't Save APC, Buhari From Defeat --Fayose

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said the outcome of opinion
polls will not save the All Progressives Congress, describing the
opposition party as one suffering from "Acquired Self-deceit
Syndrome".

The governor argued that it was a deceit taken too far for anyone to
list Ekiti as part of States to be won by the APC in this weekend's
presidential election.

He urged Nigerians to disregard the "orchestrated opinion polls" being
published since Saturday in some newspapers, adding that, "Fake
opinion polls won't assist the APC, the way it did not assist the
party in the June 21, 2014 Ekiti governorship election".

A national newspaper had while analyzing President Goodluck Jonathan
and Muhammadu Buhari's chances in the 36 states of the federation and
FCT, listed Ekiti as one of the states where the APC flag bearer will
emerge victorious, inspite of Gov. Fayose's political stranglehold on
the state.

But Fayose, according to a statement issued on Sunday by his Special
Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,
insisted that President Jonathan, who is the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, flag bearer, would win the Saturday election, no matter how hard
the APC try in their game of deceit and falsehood.

"When I saw the publications yesterday and today, I just laughed
because I wondered how people can be so happy deceiving themselves.

"When you are telling yourself that Buhari will win in Ekiti, it shows
that you are suffering from Acquired Self-deceit Syndrome which is
even more deadly than Ebola disease.

"That's the same way they deceived themselves with orchestrated
opinion polls before the Ekiti election, and up till now, they are
still dazed by the 16 - 0 defeat.

"Funny enough, one of the newspapers that published the orchestrated
opinion polls described Ido-Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State
as a 'sleepy town' thinking that Ido-Osi was a town".

Fayose, therefore, urged the APC to "stop lying and face the reality
of a lost election because President Jonathan will win convincingly".

He also described claim by the APC that there was "a plan to freeze
the accounts of companies, individuals and organisations believed to
be financing the party, with the ultimate objective of crippling the
party so it won't be able to sustain its activities, like paying its
agents on Election Day and other logistics", as a face saving tactic
by the party.
--CodecGist