The Presidential and National Assembly elections witnessed large turnout of voters in Ondo North senatorial district area of Ondo State, but not without the complaints of the inability of the card readers to read the fingerprints of some voters across the six Local Government Areas of the district.
This is just as INEC officials and elections materials arrived various polling units early in most parts of the district that comprises of Ose, Akoko north east, Akoko north-west, Akoko south-west, Owo and Akoko south east local government areas.
Our correspondent who visited some polling units in Owo, Oba-Akoko, Supare-Akoko, Akungba-Akoko, Ikare-Akoko, Oka-Akoko, Arigidi-Akoko and Okeagbe Akoko towns observed that only two out of one hundred and twenty-five voters’ fingers were so far captured at Arigidi/Iye ward 1, unit 9 in Akoko North West local government area where INEC officials resorted to manual capturing.
Two of the voters, the majority in Olugbenga Araoyinbo in Irun – Akoko and Alhaji Taofeeq Abdulsalam in Ikare Akoko confirmed that security arrangements were satisfactory so far and commended INEC for timely usage of manual system to tackle card reader machines issue which had initially heightened tension in the affected unit.
The senatorial candidates of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) for Ondo north, Prince Foluso Adefemi, that of the PDP, Mr Olusegun Alonge and the CPS to the state governor, Mr Segun Ajiboye described the polls as generally peaceful.
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