Three days after it was officially declared, the result of last Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State is yet to be posted on the official website of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), checks by Daily Trust have shown.
INEC’s Chief Returning Officer for the poll, Professor Idowu Olayinka, had on Sunday declared the candidate of the APC, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, as the winner of the election.
He said Fayemi defeated the deputy governor of the state and candidate of the PDP, Professor Kolapo Olusola, and over 30 others in the election.
The result announced by the returning officer showed that Fayemi won in 11 of the 16 local government areas of the state, polling 197,459 votes to beat his closest rival Olusola who got 178,121 votes.
However, days after the election, the official result of the election was not on the official website of INEC, a development that had led to speculations.
An attempt by this reporter to access the result of the governorship poll on the website, http://www.inecnigeria.org, was unsuccessful as only the result of the 2014 governorship election was available.
When a search was conducted on the ‘Elections Results’ column on the website, the result showed the 2014 governorship election in which Ayodele Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated the then governor, Kayode Fayemi.
INEC’s director in charge of Information Technology (ICT) could not be reached for comments even as the spokesman of the commission’s chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, also neither responded to calls nor text message on the matter by press time.
