APC HoR Primary: Ekiti Rep rejects election outcome, seeks fresh contest

A subordinate of the House of Representatives, for Ekiti North Federal Constituency II, Kolawole Akinlayo, has rejected the outcome of Saturday’s primary predetermination by the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Akinlayo, who described the superior predetermination arsenic a sham, explained that nary predetermination was held successful his constituency, comprising Ido/Osi/Moba/Ilejemeje section authorities areas of the state.

Addressing newsmen successful Ado-Ekiti, the national lawmaker said the Saturday election should beryllium cancelled, and a just and credible polln conducted nether choky security. 

Insisting that determination was nary election, Akinlayo said, “That’s a fact, due to the fact that successful the full Ilejemeje, determination was nary election. For me, the superior predetermination was a sham, and it was a disgrace to democracy. 

“Figures were written. People were successful the queue from 8am to astir 11am. Nobody came to be to them. We saw immoderate men trying to disperse radical and results sheets were taken, and they wrote the results.

“Also immoderate authorities officials came asking to spot the electoral officer, and collected the photocopy of the assets sheet, and went distant with it and drove them away. I person each the video grounds of each these things happening. So, is that what we telephone an election? That was not an election. Manipulated figures were announced”, ...