- All eyes are on Osun as residents in the state troop out to elect a new governor on Saturday, September 22
- A former spokesman of the APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has tasked INEC on the need to ensure the election is free and fair
- Frank advised the electoral commission to be fair to all during the contest
A former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the need to ensure that the September 22 Osun governorship election is free and fair.
Frank made the call in a statement sent to journalists concerning the forthcoming governorship poll.
He advised the electoral commission to be fair to all political parties participating in the contest, warning against any sort of connivance.
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He also advised the electoral body against deploying faulty card reader machines for the election in order not deprive voters opportunity to exercise their franchise.
Part of the statement read: “The people of Osun should be alerted to the latest method and resist to vote until faulty card reader is changed.
“We are also calling on local and international observers to be conscious of this information ahead of Saturday election.
“Nigerians should be worried that if the INEC could not deploy functional card readers and other machines to conduct a peaceful and credible election in just one state of the federation despite the huge amount of money the body is getting, what is the assurance that the same body will be fair to all in 2019?”
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Meanwhile, Adejare Bello, ex-speaker of the Osun state House of Assembly, defected to the APC, barely a week to the governorship election.
Bello, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had on Monday, September 17, resigned his membership of the party.
In a letter addressed to Soji Adagunodo, the PDP state chairman, the former speaker said that he resigned his membership because the party has drifted from the ideals of its founding fathers.
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