Ekiti Election: Observers Discredit Poll, say security operatives driving away of some party agents
A coalition of local and international election observers, who monitored the July 14 governorship poll in Ekiti State, on Tuesday faulted the poll in their reports, insisting that the election that produced All Progressives Congress, APC’s Kayode Fayemi as Governor-elect, falls short of global electoral standards as a result of lapses in the way a section of the large deployment of security agents conducted themselves, among other electoral-related challenges.

The accredited observers comprised representatives from over 50 domestic organisations, human rights groups and international election observing bodies, some of which are Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness, (Nigeria), Justice and Equity Organisation, (Nigeria), International Republican Institute (South Africa), and Patriotic Women Foundation, (Abuja) as well as other bodies from the European Unions among others read more