BIG TROUBLE FOR NEWLY ELECTED GOVERNOR OF EKITI AS ELECTION RESULT WERE REJECTED
Coalition of
observer groups and Civil Society Organisations that observed and monitored the
Saturday July 14th Governorship elections in Ekiti State, have released a
statement, rejecting the result released by INEC announcing APC candidate,
Kayode Fayemi, as the winner of the election.
In a press
statement released by its officials Comrade Haruna Farouk and Nze Adachi Okoro,
the group said the election does not reflect what they saw on ground, adding
that it will release their report on Wednesday July 18th which will contain
details of the malpractices that characterised the election.
According to the group, it has gathered enough evidence to back up
its claims that the election was marred by irregular practices. Describing the
election as political terrorism, the group said
“We have evidences of election malpractices where a particular
party in connivance with security personnel went about inducing electorates
with cash and coercing them to snap the ballot papers in order to receive cash
gifts from the agents of the party in question. The level of intimidation that
occurred during the elections on Saturday was disheartening and shouldn’t be
allowed to stand in modern day Nigeria. We witnessed a situation where
loyalists of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and its agents were harassed and
intimidated so as to make it difficult for them to participate in the
elections. Other incidence that we recorded will be made open in our findings
which will definitely shock Nigerians and expose the conspiracy of INEC,
Security agents and the APC to deprive the people of Ekiti from expressing
their constitutional rights.”
The Coalition said it was regrettable that the Independent
national Electoral Commission as well as the security agencies could be used to
short change the people of the state the way they did on the day of the
election.
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