The die is solid as political heavyweights enter the ring to do battle within the Ondo State governorship election.
Residents of the state will file out of their numbers on Saturday, November sixteenth as they elect their chief for the subsequent 4 years.
Forward of the train, the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) stated it cleared 18 candidates for the ballot.
Governor Fortunate Aiyedatiwa is vying for his first election after he changed the late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu who died final yr. His main opponent is the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP)’s Agboola Ajayi who was additionally deputised Akeredolu.
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INEC Assures Readiness
Whereas election logistics has been a problem in previous elections within the oil-producing state, the INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu assured that the fee has made preparations for a easy ballot.
“Over the past 4 days,” Yakubu stated throughout the signing of a peace accord for the ballot. “I’ve engaged with our personal officers, safety companies, and transport service suppliers right here in Ondo State to evaluate our readiness and ideal our preparations for the motion of over 17,000 advert hoc and common officers in addition to giant portions of supplies to 4,154 voting and collation areas (3,933 polling items, 203 Ward and 18 LGA collation centres).”
INEC stated it would deploy the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for voter accreditation on the polling items and add of outcomes to the INEC Consequence Viewing (IReV) portal.
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Police Tighten Safety
Days after this, INEC started the distribution of supplies for the election and likewise stated it was working with safety companies to make sure a free and truthful train.
“In preparation for the elections, the IGP has deployed DIG Sylvester Abiodun Alabi because the coordinating DIG for the Elections, tasked with overseeing the implementation of the Police safety methods to keep up regulation and order all through the electoral interval, whereas AIG Bennett Igweh, mni, and CP Tunji Disu are deployed as AIG and CP Elections respectively,” the Drive spokesman Olumuyiwa Adejobi stated.
“As a part of the safety framework, there shall be a restriction of all vehicular actions on roads, waterways, and different technique of transportation from 6 am to six pm on Election Day, apart from these on important companies, corresponding to ambulances, media officers, hearth companies, and different accredited media.”
Tinubu Sues For Peace
On the eve of the election, President Bola Tinubu known as for peace and recommended INEC for its readiness for the election.
“As Ondo State prepares for its off-cycle governorship election, President Bola Tinubu urges all political stakeholders and the citizens to uphold peace and decorum and fulfil their civic obligations with out worry earlier than or after the elections,” presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga stated in a Friday assertion.
“President Tinubu anticipates a democratic course of within the state that can genuinely replicate the individuals’s will and energy to freely select their leaders.”
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