Candidates, Voters Express Divergent Views over NASS Polls in Ogbomoso

Olayiwola/Lara Ayoade/Morenike Esan

Candidates into National Assembly in the ongoing general elections and voters at Oyo North Senatorial district have expressed divergent views on the security of the today’s election in Ogbomoso land.

Although, voters trooped out en mass to exercise their civic right but residents did not comply with movement restrictions as few vehicles and motorcycles were seen plying the roads.

In her submission, the candidate of Social Democratic Party,SDP for Oyo North Senatorial district, Alhaja Mulikat Akande said security agents were not enough for the exercise which allowed vote buying and movement of the voters.

In a contrary view, the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) and incumbent senator of the district, Senator Abd-fatai Buhari noted that security of lives and property in the elections were guaranteed with enough combined security agents parading major flash points to avoid election violence.

Both candidates scored INEC high for the preparation of the general elections, particularly, the use of the Biomodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS).

As at the time of filing in the report, voting had been completed in some polling units in Ogbomoso Land.
In another development, candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Oyo Federal Constituency, Mr Kamil Akinlabi has advised INEC to allocate more time for the training of youth corps engaged as adhoc staff for the elections to ensure smooth operations of the exercise.

Mr Akinlabi observed that many adhoc staffs found it difficult to operate BVAS machine thereby causing the voting process a bit slow.

He commended the courage and matured manner exhibited by the voters during the whole processes of the elections.