Politics

Accreditation, Voting Ongoing at Ibadan Ward 11, Ibadan North LG

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Dayo Adu/Oluwakayode Banjo/Olaitan Oye-Adeitan

Accreditation and voting have commenced at Polling Unit 43 Ward 11 in Ibadan North Local Government.

Voters were seen in the queue in an orderly manner as they passed through the preliminary stages before they eventually cast their ballots.

Two of the voters Dr Basir Olanrewaju and Alhaji Bidemi Siyanbade commended INEC on the use of BVAS for accreditation 

Meanwhile, at Polling Unit 7 ward 5, the polling unit officers are experiencing hard times with the device due to poor network signal but later contacted the INEC supervisor for rectification.

However, in some polling units of Ibadan North West voting seems to have been concluded as there was no single voter sighted on the queue.

Politics

Makinde, Folarin Cast Vote

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By Iyabo Adebisi and Mosope Kehinde

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, his wife Tamunominini have voted at Ward 11, polling unit one, Abayomi area in Ibadan North East LGA, at exactly 10:10 am.

In an interview with newsmen, Governor Makinde expressed satisfaction with the electoral process so far. 

The Governor implored all the electorate to be patient with those in charge of the exercise while charging them to carry out their civic responsibility.

Similarly, Oyo state APC governorship candidate, Senator Teslim Folarin has cast his vote at exactly fifteen minutes past eleven o’clock in the morning.

Folarin Cast his vote at Ward 5, units 2, Idi Ose, Akanran in Ona Ara local government area of Oyo state.

Foreign

Ukraine war: Final Day of Discredited Voting in Russian-held Ukraine

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Tuesday is the final day of a ballot for Russian-held regions of Ukraine which the government in Kyiv and its Western allies dismiss as a sham.

According to the report, nearly four million people from the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, are being asked to attend polling stations and vote in so-called referendums on joining Russia.

This follows four days of early voting during which allegations of intimidation multiplied as election officials went house to house accompanied by armed guards.

The votes, called with just a few days’ notice, serve a deadly serious purpose as they will be used by the Kremlin to legitimize its invasion aims.

If Russia absorbs these regions, making up about 15% of Ukraine’s territory, it could take the war to a new and more dangerous level, with Moscow portraying any attempt by Ukraine to regain them as an attack on its sovereign territory.

There is now speculation that Russian President Vladimir Putin may announce the four regions’ annexation in a speech to a joint session of Russia’s parliament on Friday.

In March 2014 he announced that Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula had been annexed just a few days after a likewise unrecognized referendum was held.

BBC/Taiwo Akinola

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Akure Bye Election: Voting In Progress Amidst Tight Security

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Voting has commenced in Saturday’s bye-election into Akure North/Akure South Federal Constituency in Ondo State.

A team of Radio Nigeria correspondents covering the election in the two local governments report that accreditation started early in most of the polling units visited.

According to them, the process is going on peacefully in areas like Igbatoro, Ayede Ogbese, Oba Ile, Oke Aro, Isinkan, Ijomu, Obanla, Odopetu and Oda.

Eligible voters are trooping out in their numbers to cast their ballots while security personnel are in strategic positions to ensure law and order.

Seven political parties are participating in the bye-election.

Bukola Bardi