The Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello has expressed satisfaction with the turnout of voters in the Presidential and national assembly elections in the state.
Governor Bello, who addressed the press on Saturday, immediately after casting his vote, in his country home, Agassa, polling unit, described the turnout as “very impressive” because of the importance the electorate attach to the elections, he describes as an important obligation to the Nation:
“You can see the massive turnout of electorates in my own polling unit here at Agasa in Okene Local Government.
“From the reports I received so far, the turnout is good all over the 21 local government areas.
“If not for the little hitch we had with our BVAS here, we would have gone far with voting. All the same, I can say our turnout is about 99 per cent,” he said
The governor commended the security operatives for providing adequate security to the entire residents of Kogi to cast their votes.
He expressed the hope that the whole exercise would be free, fair and credible to usher in a new President and National Assembly leaders for Nigeria.
“The people are keen about the election and they are keenly voting leaders of their choices, and I’m impressed about it”.
Elections were peaceful across the state and the timely accreditation of the voters interviewed, expressed satisfaction with the conduct of election officials and security agents especially the operatives of Nigeria’s Anti-graft agency (EFCC) who were sighted at the polling stations visited.
The respondents said they were surprised that there were no acts of vote buying at the polling centres in the state capital due to the involvement of the anti-graft agents in the conduct of the elections, allaying fears of election fraud in Saturday’s general elections.
However, elections were disrupted at Oganaji polling station, in Dekin local government area, where a thug Identified as Attah Ahiaba, made an attempt to snatch the ballot box and was killed by the security agent.
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