Election Rerun in Ekiti State - Punch Newspapers
BREAKING NEWS: Ekiti REC‘s indisposition stalls results, Oye election By Hamed Shobiye Published: Monday, 27 Apr 2009 A fresh twist was added to the controversy over the stalled governorship rerun in Skip to next paragraph Photo file Mr Segun Oni and Dr Kayode Fayemi Ekiti State as it emerged that the indiposition of the Ekiti State Resident Electoral Commission, Mrs Ayoka Adebayo, was responsible for the delay in announcing the results of the remaining four local governments and the conduct of the poll in Oye Wards 1 & 2. Disclosing the latest development at a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu, said Adebayo took ill during the conduct of the election on Saturday and had to be excused from duty. Iwu, whose press conference was monitored on a television station in Lagos, said that under Section 28(2G) of the Electoral Act 2006, ...