Following Saturday’s illegal announcement of the July 14, 2018 governorship election in Ekiti State by Governor Ayodele Fayose, an Ekiti group, identified as Ekiti Rescue Team (ERT), has urged the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mallam Abubakar Malami (SAN), to prosecute the over the illegal announcement of the election results on the state broadcasting stations using the stated owned television and radio.
According to the convener of the group, Ambassador Ilesanmi Ade-Ademola, the state governor’s action was an attempt to cause crisis in the state.
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) had shutdown the Ekiti State Broadcasting Services, for breaching provision of the broadcasting code.
The NBC said the shutdown became necessary following the illegal announcement of the governorship election result by the state Governor Ayodele Fayose of his deputy and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prof Kolapo Olusola as winner of the election.
The commission’s Southwest monitoring chief Professor Armstrong Idachaba cited breach of the electoral act and broadcasting code by the media outfit, after Governor Ayodele Fayose went on air to announce fake results in favour of Olusola Emeka, his deputy and PDP governorship candidate.
“The Commission has taken the decision to curb the continued breach of the Electoral Act and the Broadcasting Code on Political Broadcast.
“The Commission was particularly irked by the unauthorized declaration of results by the state Governor on the state owned Broadcast stations.
“The governor had also made malicious and unsubstantiated comments against INEC, the Police and the SSS.”
NBC said the stations, comprising radio and TV will remain shut down until further notice.
