A statement on Sunday by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mba, said Abubakar is also very happy with the “huge assistance extended to the Police and other law enforcement agencies by the citizens which made the election hitch-free”
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Governor Fayemi, in a broadcast on Sunday, said he has no option than to accept the result of the election and congratulate Fayose “if indeed the outcome of the election is the will of the Ekiti people”
The Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof. Isaac Azuzu, declared the result
Metuh said that the utterances of APC’s leadership with regards to the deployment of security personnel to the state to ensure peace in its governorship election was unfair
The mopol commander said the journalists had no business being in Ekiti State
The APC reiterated its earlier warning that it will not accept the outcome of an election in which the military and other security agencies skewed the whole process in favour of a certain candidate, to the detriment of others
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However, as at press time on Saturday morning, the concentration of the battle had become the media
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, said in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday that the accusation was absolutely wrong
It was said that the military on Friday evening stopped Fayemi’s convoy and insisted on conducting a search on him, a move the governor was said to have resisted vehemently
The REC, who reiterated the preparedness of the commission to conduct a credible free and fair election, said all sensitive materials such as ballot papers and results sheets had since Thursday been distributed in the presence of security agents and party representatives to all the offices of INEC across the 16 council areas of the state
EWG is one of the 29 Domestic and international Observers accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission to observe Saturday’s election
Ewurum said the deployment of the dogs was aimed at exposing any form of terrorist attack during the poll
Okei-Odumakin told the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone interview on Friday in Ado-Ekiti that the commission must ensure that the logistic challenges, which affected the Anambra State poll in November 2013 were tackled
Addressing a world press conference in Lagos on Friday, the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigwe Oyegun, lamented that Ekiti State has been turned into a war zone where constitutional rights of the people have been suspended, warning against such arbitrariness
The bishop, in a statement in Ado Ekiti, said the energy dissipated in the deployment of the troop to a “peaceful state” should have been used to bring back the over 200 girls in the captivity of insurgent Boko Haram
Another civil servant, who was sighted briefly in his office and disappeared soon after, said most civil servants who stayed away misconstrued the earlier holiday declared for primary and secondary school pupils to be a general public holiday for all public workers
While commending the conduct of the operatives of the Nigeria Police, the Nigerian Army, the Department of State Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps deployed to ensure peace during the election, he also praised the Independent National Electoral Commission for its planned free and fair exercise
Fayemi, in a state broadcast to the people of the state, urged them to cooperate with security agencies and other relevant authorities full to make the election a success
Entwistle called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure that registered Ekiti State voters would be able to cast their ballots without hindrance