Lagos — Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress (AC) has applauded the sacking of Ayo Arise as the Senator representing Ekiti North Senatorial District by the Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin.

The party said the "continued upturning of the sham and forged victory the PDP recorded in Ekiti State during the April 2007 election shows beyond all reasonable doubts that Ekiti PDP is forged in the most heinous electoral fraud that this country has ever witnessed".

In a statement in Lagos by the party's Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, AC said the voiding of the victories of Femi Killa earlier and now Arise in quick successions, "just some weeks after the brazen and open fraud in Ido Osi should warn the PDP that its days in Ekiti are numbered".

The statement said AC will not allow the PDP to violently steal the in-coming re-run in Ekiti North as it did the last governorship re-run poll.

"The manner Arise was arrested with a platoon of thugs and well armed hoodlums on the day of the re-run is still fresh in the minds of Nigerians and, that the Nigerian system has tolerated these kinds of hoodlums who have crumbled the country remains the reason why thing continually go wrong.