The army officer implicated in the 2014 Ekiti State governorship election scandal, Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, has been retired from service by authorities of the Nigerian Army.
General Momoh had led a contingent of soldiers and other security agencies to Ekiti for the gubernatorial poll, in which the incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was defeated.
Fayemi is presently the Minister of Solid Minerals in the President Muhammadu Buhari government.
An audio was leaked online by SaharaReporters, where Gen Momoh was allegedly recorded planning how to intimidated voters and restrain the movement of officials of the APC in a broad strategy reportedly approved by former President Goodluck Jonathan to make sure candidate of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ayodele Fayose, won the election.
Former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, former Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, were also implicated in the recording.
It would be recalled that Minister of Defence, Dan Ali, disclosed the plan to end General Momoh’s military career in an exclusive interview in Washington, DC.
Ali was in the US as part of the Nigerian delegation to a nuclear power summit convened by President Barack Obama of the United States of America.
The Defence Minister revealed that the army decided to initiate the process of rusticating General Momoh, who was indicted last year by a military panel.
