A coalition of observer groups and civil society organizations that monitored Saturday’s governorship elections in Ekiti State have disputd the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Kayode Fayemi as the winner of the polls.

In a press statement signed by Comrade Haruna Farouk and Nze Adachi Okoro, the group said the election does not reflect what they witnessed on the field, pledging to release its full findings on Wednesday, July 18.

“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 statement read.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced Fayemi as winner of the polls, after he secured 197,459 votes to defeat his closest opponent and incumbent Deputy Governor, Prof. Kolapo Olusola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled178,121 votes.