Yiaga, which raised the alarm in a preliminary statement issued on Saturday, June 20, warned that the discrepancies could undermine the integrity of voting and the result collation.
An election observation group, Yiaga Africa, has raised alarm over what it described as glaring inconsistencies in electoral materials deployed for the ongoing 2026 Ekiti State governorship election.
Yiaga, which raised the alarm in a preliminary statement issued on Saturday, June 20, warned that the discrepancies could undermine the integrity of voting and the result collation.
In the statement signed by its Chair of the 2026 Ekiti Election Observation Mission, Aisha Abdullahi, and its Africa’s Executive Director, Samson Itodo, Yiaga said that its observers detected mismatches between ballot papers, result sheets and the final list of candidates published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
According to the group, as of 8:30 a.m., 96 per cent of its observers stationed across 250 randomly selected polling units in Ekiti State had arrived to monitor the exercise.
