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Professor Kolapo Olusola Eleka, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm over alleged attempts to manipulate today’s election results.
In a statement, a spokesman of the candidate, Lere Olayinka says: ”We contested against security agencies.”
He alleged that plans were afoot to tinker with the results of the election.
Olayinka said results in most of the local councils were currently being tinkered with.
”Aside from the fact that it was an election of the PDP versus all the security agencies in the country, we are confident of winning,” he stated, adding that the various wards collating centres had been taken over by armed thugs backed by security agencies as it was before and during the election.
The statement says: “Despite the intimidation and harassment by security agencies, we are still hopeful of winning the election but we are confronted with a clear plot to manipulate the results.
“We are therefore calling on all well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the security agencies and INEC to allow the will of Ekiti people to prevail.”
The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has, however, warned social media writers and bloggers to stop publishing unauthorised results about the election.
The resident electoral commissioner for the state, Professor Abdulganiyu Raji described the results being declared on social media as illegal.
In a statement, Raji says the Ekiti election is still ongoing and listed several factors that will make the declaration of result in the media premature.
He stated: “Counting of ballots is still in progress, collation of results is equally going on in some areas”.
“All the floating news in the social media in respect of the result of the election should be discountenanced by the public. The announcement of the election result would be made by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) at the appropriate time.”