Cross River Governor expresses satisfaction with conduct of by-election
By Eme Offiong, Calabar
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the north senatorial district and Obudu State constituency by-elections.
Ayade made the remark after casting his votes at his polling unit in Obudu local government area.
He said, “I have just cast my votes and as usual this is my family play ground. This is where I vote, I believe that as usual this is a political strong hold of my political structure and I believe that we will declare success in Jesus name”.
On the turn out, “I am very impressed and you can see that it is still very young in the day. You can see the crowd around and very soon it will start building up especially now that they know I am here. This is a very massive polling unit it’s at the epicenter of our ward and it is very huge so I expect a massive and impressive turn out”.
He described the voting process ” looking free and fair. At least, from the impression of my ward and with what am seeing here if this is the situation across the entire senatorial district then we will have a very free and fair election”.
According to him, the use of electronic voting system remained the best option for Nigeria electoral process, noting that “electronic voting is the way to go because the issue of rigging has become a critical”.
He advised candidate who may lose to show the spirit of sportsmanship, that if they have lost, it is not the end of the world.
Confidence Okwuchi
