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Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Johnnyessence(m): 7:36pm On Jul 15, 2018
LEADERSHIP - Coalition of observer groups and Civil Society Organisations that observed and monitored the Saturday July 14th Governorship elections in Ekiti State have condemned the announcement of the All Progressives Congress APC candidate John Kayode Fayemi as the winner of the elections .

In a press statement , the group said the election does not reflect what they saw on ground and its will open up on the true findings coming Wednesday 18 th July 2018 with details of the malpractices that greeted the election .
The Coalition in a press statement signed by its contact persons Comrade Haruna Farouk and Nze Adachi Okoro 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 elections.

The Coalition said it has gathered evidence that will show how the election was massively rigged describing the situation as a sad moment for democracy in the country.

“ 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 called on the international community to condemn what it called the ‘ political terrorism ’ that took place against the people of Ekiti state on Saturday stressing that their voice against the actions of the Federal Government , INEC and Security agents will help put pressure on the government to do the right thing .

https://leadership.ng/2018/07/15/ekiti-guber-coalition-of-observers-reject-results-to-release-findings-wednesday/

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by nelronaldo(m): 7:40pm On Jul 15, 2018
Apc will give them money now

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by CilicMarin: 7:41pm On Jul 15, 2018
More like a coalition of PDP and ipob yoots assembled by Fayose to release a press statement ... grin grin grin

No be only coalition na Croatia..

Jonnyessence, are you not even ashamed? You failed in Edo Election, You Failed In Kogi, You Failed in ondo
now you failed in Ekiti election..

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Sharpshooota: 7:42pm On Jul 15, 2018
Who doesn't know the election was rigged...


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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Sharpshooota: 7:42pm On Jul 15, 2018
CilicMarin:
More like coalition of

Zombies lack common sense

It was a sham

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Sharpshooota: 7:43pm On Jul 15, 2018
nelronaldo:
Apc will give them money now

Abacha loot doing wonders

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by kolafolabi(m): 7:44pm On Jul 15, 2018
They should all stop making a noise..Fayemi is the winner..Fayose should get ready to face the full wrath of law..

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by greaterlove001: 7:46pm On Jul 15, 2018
Well, if only coalition will not become collaborators.

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by BabaO2: 7:47pm On Jul 15, 2018
PDP/Fayose sponsored observers, same utterance from Fayose word for word is what they are echoing.

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Nobody: 7:57pm On Jul 15, 2018
Let's see the outcome

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Nobody: 7:59pm On Jul 15, 2018
BabaO2:
PDP/Fayose sponsored observers, same utterance from Fayose word for word is what they are echoing.
even the American observers were sponsored by PDP/Fayose abi?

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Young03(m): 8:05pm On Jul 15, 2018
Joke�

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Johnnyessence(m): 8:13pm On Jul 15, 2018
PRESS STATEMENT

Fellow citizens of Ekiti State
Leaders and members of our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
Election Monitoring Groups (Local and International)
Nigerians - Home and Abroad; and
The International Community

Greetings!

I REJECT THE INEC RESULTS OF THE JULY 14, 2018 EKITI GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

You are all aware of the unfortunate and dangerous events of the past 24 hours, in which our governorship election was hijacked by political desperadoes leveraging on “Federal might” to pervert the electoral process, subvert the will of Ekiti people, and viciously steal the mandate willingly and freely given to me on a massive scale by our people.

PDP and I won the election overwhelmingly, receiving more than 70% of lawful votes cast and winning in almost all of the State’s 16 local government areas. I therefore reject the falsified results being bandied by the Independent National Electoral Commission, which purportedly gave the election to the All Progressives Congress and its Candidate; Dr. John Kayode Fayemi.

This is the most audacious electoral robbery of our recent history. It shall not stand. By the grace of Almighty God and your support, I will pursue and regain my mandate.

To rig this election, the APC leveraged on its well-advertised but patently obnoxious and anti-democratic “Federal might” to intimidate, harass, victimize, oppress, and brutalize PDP leaders, members, and the voting public all over Ekiti. This brutal and barbaric process, which started well before the election, did not spare Gov. Ayo Fayose and me; as the whole world had seen and had condemned. It is quite unfortunate that the harassment has continued even after the election.

On Saturday, July 14th, the security agencies and INEC upped the ante, threw all caution to the wind, went back on their promises to be impartial and to conduct credible elections; they sided with APC and Fayemi to the chagrin of our party, myself, and the good people of Ekiti State. Despite the alarm we had earlier raised, the security agencies not only supported but also supervised

• The indiscriminate arrest of our party leaders and agents

• The harassment and brutalization of voters on a massive scale, especially in Ado-Ekiti, Ikere and the suburbs

• Giving cover, tacit as well as active support to thugs imported into Ekiti by APC to snatch ballot boxes, create confusion, cause mayhem, and drive away voters in PDP strongholds

• Giving cover to APC agents as they financially and openly induced voters and bought votes at polling stations; and

• Driving away our polling agents from collation centres and illegal seizure of documents and materials in their possession, among many other infractions.

INEC on its own part reneged on its promise to have results counted, declared, and pasted on the wall of each polling station. There was nowhere INEC transmitted results from the polling centres as earlier promised. Ballot boxes were illegally moved to INEC offices while our agents were disallowed from following the process.

INEC also allowed late voting by APC in hideouts when it was obvious the figures still would not add up after all the infractions mentioned above. Still, when all of these shenanigans still failed to give them the figures they needed, they stopped the announcement of results ward-by-ward, caused a deliberate power outage at the collation centre, with no alternative source of power provided for a long time, and then wrote results in favour of APC and its candidate.

Without doubt, what has played out in Ekiti is the APC template for the 2019 General Election, where they have mapped out Rivers and Akwa Ibom as States they must capture at all costs, like they are now trying to do Ekiti. It is now left for the opposition and opposition figures, most especially presidential hopefuls in 2019, to stand up to be counted in the struggle to roll back President Muhammadu Buhari’s creeping fascism, or throw in the towel without a fight.

This is not just a sad day for Ekiti but also for democracy in Nigeria. Nothing demonstrates this better than the gloom that has enveloped our dear State since they announced their convoluted result. Ekiti mourns! But I ask our people not to be despondent but to keep hope alive, quoting the inimitable Chief MKO Abiola. This is another battle we will fight and win.

In doing this, however, I appeal to all Ekiti sons and daughters to eschew violence. They will try and provoke you but the good Lord will help you to keep calm.

Taking a cue from our great leader and democrat par excellence, ex-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, I wish to reiterate that my ambition is not worth the blood of a single Ekiti son or daughter.

We are not cultists and bloody hounds like them and shall therefore not allow them turn Ekiti into a killing field like they have done in the Middle Belt.
It remains for me to thank Ekiti for standing by me and our great party.

Our royal fathers and the Oloris, teachers, civil servants, Okada riders, Labour leaders, market women, artisans, and students – I appreciate your unflinching support. We thank every Nigerian desirous to see the growth and defence of our renascent democracy.

We thank the international community for their efforts and trust they will not let our people down in this their most trying moment.

Those bent on setting this country on fire for selfish reasons must be restrained and turned back by the international community, mindful of the recent experience of Rwanda, Kosovo, Liberia, Sierra-Leone, Cote D’Ivoire, to mention but a few.

The struggle has just started! I thank you.

Prof. Kolapo Olubunmi Olusola Eleka (Deputy Governor, Ekiti State & PDP governorship Candidate)

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by BabaO2: 8:27pm On Jul 15, 2018
iAudio:
even the American observers were sponsored by PDP/Fayose abi?
Yorubas are not this pathetic and coward, Fayose should just pack and go rather than crying like a baby, election process that ushered him was unimaginably worse than this

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Johnnyessence(m): 8:31pm On Jul 15, 2018
cc lalasticlala cc mynd44 cc seun cc fynestboi cc dominique.kindly do the needful. fp

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by AfonjaBoston: 8:49pm On Jul 15, 2018
Johnnyessence:
cc lalasticlala cc mynd44 cc seun cc fynestboi cc dominique.kindly do the needful. fp

Johnny oloko kekere grin

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by AfonjaBoston: 8:50pm On Jul 15, 2018

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by AfonjaBoston: 8:53pm On Jul 15, 2018

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Johnnyessence(m): 9:11pm On Jul 15, 2018
AfonjaBoston:


Johnny oloko kekere grin
well don't laugh yet. you just love to troll me here. i will inform you here that i always won all my battles. you will see the outcome in the court of justice.

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Johnnyessence(m): 9:13pm On Jul 15, 2018
AfonjaBoston:



Johnny I beg who INEC declare as winner?
I beg you fit help me with him name? grin grin
I'm asking, please is it original or rigged results.

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Johnnyessence(m): 9:22pm On Jul 15, 2018
AfonjaBoston:



Johnny how market?
well you love to mock alot of people here, but i have to tell you here that justice will be served.

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Johnnyessence(m): 9:38pm On Jul 15, 2018
Breaking:

“We Will Expose How Ekiti Election Was Rigged For APC On July 18” — Coalition of Observers

Coalition of observer groups and Civil Society Organisations that observed and monitored the Saturday July 14th Governorship elections in Ekiti State have condemned the announcement of the All Progressives Congress APC candidate John Kayode Fayemi as the winner of the elections..

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Johnnyessence(m): 9:40pm On Jul 15, 2018
well civil society organisations and coalition of observers will be one of the testifiers in the court of competent jurisprudence.

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by uba1991: 9:53pm On Jul 15, 2018
coalition,coalition,coalition. hahahaaaaa coalition want to vote buhari out,coalition reject result. pdp new name is coalition

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by OsuEbonyi: 9:55pm On Jul 15, 2018
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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Okrikacity: 9:55pm On Jul 15, 2018
Johnny don't kill yourself over PDP. The election is over please move on

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by Johnnyessence(m): 10:17pm On Jul 15, 2018
Okrikacity:
Johnny don't kill yourself over PDP. The election is over please move on
if it is the way round, you will change your thinking. well all is well.

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by AfonjaBoston: 10:27pm On Jul 15, 2018
Johnnyessence:
I'm asking, please is it original or rigged results.


The RESULT INEC released. Whether it's "original or rigged" please tell me the full name of who won in bold

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by AfonjaBoston: 10:29pm On Jul 15, 2018
Johnnyessence:
well don't laugh yet. you just love to troll me here. i will inform you here that i always won all my battles. you will see the outcome in the court of justice.

I see wink
KAGBOOM!!!!

YOU SABI BLOW OYINBO COMe SABI LIE ON TOP grin

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Re: Ekiti Election: Coalition Of Observers Reject Results, To Release Findings by AfonjaBoston: 10:32pm On Jul 15, 2018
Johnnyessence:
well you love to mock alot of people here, but i have to tell you here that justice will be served.

Who will serve the justice?

When Fayose's audio was played at the tribunal was justice served?

Awon oloshi

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