By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ekiti
The Ekiti State Deputy Governor and the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives, Chief (Mrs) Monisade Afuye, have commended the voters for their sense of patriotism with the way they trooped out en masse to exercise their civic responsibility in the Saturday governorship poll in the state.
In the same manner, Mrs Afuye applauded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security agencies for their impartiality, leading to the peaceful conduct of the Ekiti governorship election across the state.
Mrs Afuye spoke while voting at her Atiba/Aafin Ward 1 polling unit 003, at Ikere Ekiti, on Saturday, during the June 20 governorship poll held in the state to elect a governor that will pilot the affairs of the state till 2030.
Mrs Afuye is the deputy governorship candidate to the governorship candidate of the APC and sitting governor of the state, Biodun Oyebanji, in the election.
Expressing her feelings about the progress being made after voting at about 8.50am, Mrs Afuye commended the voters for trooping out massively to exercise their franchise rights, describing this as attesting to the fact that Nigeria’s democracy is fast maturing and developing.
Mrs Afuye appealed to political gladiators to play by the electoral rules set by INEC to keep the tempo of peace that accompanied the election from the start to the collation time.
“You can see for yourselves how people trooped out to participate in this election. Not only trooping out but being ready and anxious to participate in the voting. I am indeed impressed with this conduct of our voters.
“I am not using Ikere as the only area of focus now; we are getting the same information from some of our local governments and towns about how our voters are coming out in large numbers. I am happy about this. This shows that the rigorous campaigns that we did yield positive results.
“I have to commend the INEC as well and our security agencies. They really prepared for this election. You can see that nobody is being intimidated, and I believe if we continue like this, this election may turn out being the best in Ekiti history.”
Asked to predict the outcome of the poll, Mrs Afuye said her boss, Biodun Oyebanji, has served Ekiti with every fibre in his body and is widely adjudged to have performed excellently well, exuding confidence that the APC candidate will triumph in the election.
“Governor Oyebanji is not only winning this election, it is going to be by a wide margin.”
