Okuyiga rejects outcome of APC Reps primary election in Ekiti

A subordinate of the Ekiti State House of Assembly and aspirant for Ekiti South Federal Constituency II, Teju Okuyiga, has rejected the result of the House of Representatives primaries conducted connected May 16, 2026 successful his constituency.

Okuyiga successful a connection on Sunday titled ‘Rejection of the Sham Ekiti South Federal Constituency II House of Representatives Primaries of May 16, 2026’, described the workout arsenic “a sham”, adding that it fell acold abbreviated of the minimum standards for a free, fair, and credible enactment primary.

Okuyiga who highlighted her areas of concerns successful the process categorically stated, “Electoral process was not followed. Party guidelines for delegate accreditation, voting, and collation were openly disregarded successful aggregate wards. Figures were allocated: Results were announced successful respective wards wherever nary voting took place.”

She added, “No predetermination successful astir wards: In a important fig of wards crossed my 3 constituencies, determination was nary voting, nary ballot papers, and nary accidental for delegates to workout their franchise.

“Targeted suppression: The process was manipulated to disenfranchise supporters and undermine my candidacy arsenic the lone pistillate aspirant successful this race.

“This was not an election. It was a coordinated effort to subvert the volition of the radical and acceptable a unsafe precedent for interior ideology wrong our enactment and for Ekiti State. When enactment leaders a...