Since voting in the Ekiti State Gubernatorial election ended, Saturday, all kinds of results have been flying in the air, especially in the social media.
Now, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Saturday evening, warned social media writers and bloggers that publishing results before they are announced by INEC is illegal. And any one that violates the electoral Act in this regards will be liable.
Professor Abdulganiyu Raji, the Ekiti State Resident Electoral Commissioner, made the clarification in a statement issued Saturday evening, describing the surfeit results being published on the social media as premature and illegal.
“Our attention has been drawn to illegal release of results of the 2018 governorship election in Ekiti State on the social media,” Professor Raji said. .
” Consequently, we wish to inform the general public that the Ekiti state governorship election is still ongoing.
“Counting of ballots is still in progress, collation of results is equally going on in some areas.
“All the floating news in the social media in respect of the results of the election should be discountenanced by the public.
“The announcement of the election result would be made by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the appropriate time.”