As voters in Osun state turned
out in large numbers on Saturday, there was a moment of panic for the candidate
of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke, as the card reader did not
initially work.
Adeleke voted in Ward 2 Unit 9 at
Sagba-Abogunde in Ede north at about 8:01 am after an initial hitch with the
card reader.
”The card reader took a lot of
processes before it started working and I hope it is not the same in other
polling units,’’ he said.
Correspondents of the News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) covering the election reported a high turnout at many of the
polling units visited across the three senatorial districts of the state.
A heavy security cordon was also
thrown on the state with the massive deployment of policemen as well as other
security agencies while soldiers were sighted on the outskirts of the state
capital.
There are 3,010 Polling Units and
755 Polling Points spread across the three senatorial districts and 30 local
governments areas of the state.
Although INEC registered a total
of 1,682,495 voters, some 400,000 Permanent Voters Cards remained uncollected
at at Friday.
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APC candidate Gboyega Oyetola at
the polling booth
Although 48 parties are
participating in the election, the frontline candidates are Gboyega Oyetola of
the All Progressives Congress(APC), Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic
Party and Iyiola Omisore of the Social Democratic (SDP).
Accreditation and voting
commenced about 8 am simultaneously across many polling units
In Osogbo, the state capital,
many of the residents had trooped to their polling units as early as 6.am.
At Osunbukola Ward 10 Unit 003
Polling Unit in Egbedore, more than 300 voters were sighted on the queue while
accreditation and voting commenced about 8.10am.
There were also some policemen
and NSCDC personnel at the polling unit.
The Accreditation Officer at the
unit, Mashood Samson, told NAN that the exercise has been hitch-free with the
card readers working perfectly.
An official of the Transition
Monitoring Group, Dr Abiola Afolabi, disclosed that the exercise in the units
visited so far has been orderly.
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