#EkitiDecide: Free, fair election impossible with militarisation, says MURIC

The Muslim Right Campaign has said it would be difficult to categorise the Ekiti State governorship election as free and fair with the massive presence of military forces. The group in a statement by its Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola on Saturday, said elections should not be held under “coercive militarisation”.

Akintola, who described the presence of the military forces as “flagrant display of federal power”, doubted the intention behind the deployement of 36,590 security personnel for the election.

He said, “We are flabbergasted by this open invasion and flagrant display of Federal power. It is nothing short of Gestapo-style treatment. We strongly condemn this attempt at arm-twisting the liberty-loving and democracy-inclined people of Ekiti State into accepting doctored results of a gubernatorial election which the ruling party is hell-bent on turning into its favour.