Remo By-election: Large Turnout, Peaceful Atmosphere Characterise Poll

-As Gov Dapo Abiodun Casts Vote

Voters on Saturday trooped out in their large numbers to participate in the by-election for the Remo Federal Constituency,Ogun State, following the demise of the former representative, Hon. Adewunmi Onanuga.

While the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) picked Princess Adesola Ayoola Elegbeji for the rescheduled poll, the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, endorsed Asiwaju Bolarinwa Oluwole.

The process commenced smoothly as early as 8am in the morning, as voters moved in droves to exercise their civic responsibilities in a peaceful atmosphere.

The three local governments that constitute the Federal Constituency, namely: Remo North, Sagamu and Ikenne witnessed large turn-out of voters.

The Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, who voted at his polling unit at Ward 3, Polling Unit 002, Ita Osanyin, Iperu, Ikenne Local Government Area of the state at exactly 11:33am, applauded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for prompt delivery of electoral materials as he described the process as peaceful.

He said ,”I have just gladly exercised my franchise, I must say that I am quite impressed. The feedback I have gotten so far is that electoral materials arrived at the various polling units on time.

” I am surprised there is also a very impressive turnout. Everybody seems to be going about voting orderly, peacefully.

The governor expressed optimism that the minor hiccups noted at the Pooling Unit due to inability of the BVAS to capture and register facial image, would be resolved, as the electoral empire has put all machineries in place to ensure a successful elections.

“There are issues here and there where they say maybe because of the weather, the BVAS machine takes a bit of time in capturing facial recognition images and registering it.

“But I believe between tumb printing and facial recognition, somewhere, they are managing along .

“So far, everything looks so good and I want to thank INEC for being on top of their game as usual, obviously, year in year out, they are improving on the quality of the services they are rendering.

“For now, everything appears to be going on well. You can see there is peace here, there is no rancour and there is no fighting”, the governor maintained.