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The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam, has said that the party would challenge the Ekiti state Governorship election that produced Abiofun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner in court.

Alhaji Shehu Gabam made this known in a news briefing in Abuja.

Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam said the just concluded Ekiti state Governorship election that saw the declaration of Mr Abiofun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the election was characterized with electoral malpractice and said the party would challenge the process in court.

Alhaji Gabam alleged vote buying and ballot box snatching as one of those electoral frauds that marred Ekiti state Governorship election.

He said Nigeria democracy was under threat if these malpractices were allowed unchallenged.

Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam disclosed that the party has assembled a legal team to challenge the election in court even up to Supreme court.

Also speaking the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Engr. Segun Oni said it was no longer news that the Ekiti State Governorship election was characterised with vote buying, saying what the country is watching on social media where some people were waving money in the air in a queue was far more than what Nigerians are watching, but it is a message to the world that a new wave of rigging was in the rise in the country’s electoral process.

The party maintained that unless the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is truly independent, the country’s electoral process would not be free and fair.