A coalition of over 400 civic organisations under the aegis of the Transition Monitoring Group has verified the final results of the Ekiti State governorship election as relinquished by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
This was contained in its preliminary verbalization on the Ekiti gubernatorial elections which was made to newsmen in Abuja, on Monday.
Chairman of the TMG, Mr. Ibrahim Zikirullahi, who presented the report, verbalized that predicated on reports collated from citizen observers; the group found the Ekiti gubernatorial election as well conducted.
According to him, polling units generally opened on time and polling officials followed the proscribed procedures.
He verbalized, “Ekiti was a paramount logistical amendment over the Anambra gubernatorial election.
“Further, drawing on official results independently compiled from a representative arbitrary sample of polling units, TMG can independently verify that the official results promulgated by INEC accurately reflect the ballots.
“Voters and contestants can have confidence that the INEC results are a true reflection of the will of the voters of Ekiti state.”
Zikirullahi expounded that the TMG deployed a total of 325 observers for the Ekiti gubernatorial election. Of this number, 25 were mobile supervisors who kinetically circumnavigated the state and 300 were assigned to concrete polling units.
