A coalition made up of observers and civil society organisations which monitored the Ekiti State governorship election which held on Saturday has vowed to make public the alleged fraud that characterized the exercise.
The group which condemned the activities of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security forces during the election declared that the final result announced did not reflect the true outcome of the exercise.
INEC declared All Progressives Congress’ candidate, Kayode Fayemi winner, having recorded 197,459 votes as against that of Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Kolapo Olusola, who recorded 178,121 votes.
The coalition which is headed by Haruna Farouk and Adachi Okoro made its position known in a statement, declaring that Nigerians would be shocked at the evidence of rigging.
Said the group: “We have evidence of election malpractices where a particular party in connivance with security personnel went about inducing the electorate 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 incidents 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.”
