. Election in Ekiti is free, fair and huge success – REC
. Fayemi Wins Polling Unit
Voting in polling units have been concluded as voters await the sorting and counting of the ballot papers.
Counting has already commenced in majority of polling units in Ekiti after conclusion of voting.
Voters are still loitering around their polling units to prevent any form of irregularities. Senator Arise alleges multiple voting A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ayo Arise alleged multiple voting in his area even as he called on the Independent National Electoral Committee, INEC, to address the lapse. He said this at his Ward 002, polling unit 004, Arise alleged that “Right now, there are two or three boys who have done multiple voting, their finger prints have been registered.” Lamenting that the security agents have been unable to arrest those alleged to engaged in multiple voting, he said: “None of the boys engaged in the multiple exercise have been arrested. The Police have not been able to arrest them because they don’t have guns This is my family house, if that is done, my mother will start shouting.” Expressing optimism of his party winning the elections, Arise said: ”I believe we will win, regardless of the deceit, regardless of the lies. The civil servants have not been paid salaries, pensioners have not received their pensions, why should they vote for such a person? I believe they have seen the light and they will do the right thing.”\ The Peopesl Democartic Party has said that its agents at the ongoing Ekiti governorship election were chased out of Egbe Ekiti gboyin LGA. The party in tweet said #EkitiDebate2018 Update: Egbe Ekiti gboyin LGA, PDP agents have been chased out of all polling units in the presence of @PoliceNG officers, and they have been instructed to leave all wards, @APCNigeria agents and thugs have taken control of all wards @inecnigeria @EU_Commission — Official PDP Nigeria (@OfficialPDPNig) July 14, 2018 #ekiti2018polls Ado Ekiti residents trekked long distances to get accredited and cast their votes.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner of Ekiti State Prof. Abdul Ganiy Raji has said that the gubernatorial election in Ekiti State is free, fair and a huge success.
Raji who disclosed this shortly after briefing collation officers who are drawn from various universities before going to the field said from the report he gathered from the field the totality of the election was a huge success.
However he said that there are two areas that the ballot papers was scattered on the ground due to pocket of crisis.” I got the report that the ballot papers were scattered on the ground in Gbonyin local government area of the state. Aside this everything went on smoothly.”
The INEC commissioner who monitored the election in his office said that eight commissioners were dispatched to various places to monitor the election and give him the on the spot report of what happened on the field.
According to him, all the materials arrived at its destination in good time and voting started early in most of the voting centres throughout the state.
He explained that the use of it was used to monitor the dispatching of sensitive materials to all the local government without any problem.
Also, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Ekiti State Governorship Election, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has been declared the winner in his polling unit of Isan Ward 11 Unit 9.
The results, as released by the polling agents, are as follow:
APC- 186
PDP – 2
APA – 1
Unused papers – 145