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The House of Assembly elections recorded a very low turnout across the 16 Local Governments in Ekiti State.
The election was contrary to the remarkable turn out of the voters during the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly polls, when voters walked several kilometres to exercise their voting rights.
In several polling units visited in Ado Ekiti, including Odo Ado, Oke Ori Omi, Atikankan, Oke ila and Eregburu where the aide to Presidential Mohammadu Buhari on political Affairs, Babafemi Ojudu, casts his vote, electorate were seen in few numbers from about 7am on Saturday.
Meanwhile, accreditation and voting have begun as at 8am with presence of securities operatives noticeable virtually in all the polling units.
The security personnel were relaxed unlike the presidential election when each unit had four policemen apart from other sister agencies.
The Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, attributed the low turnout to the fact that there was no governorship election in Ekiti .
He said this after voting in ward 008 unit 009A at Ereguru Area in Ado Ekiti metropolis.
Ojudu added that the light security in the state was connected with the peace enjoyed in the state during the presidential poll.
“There was no incident of arrest or violence in Ekiti in the presidential election. Nobody was arrested and no single gunshot was fired.
“The strategy must be that more security men were deployed in some other states considered as flashpoints.
“Again, don’t forget that there was no governorship election here today, so the stake seems low”.
The former governor of the state and the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Deputy Chairman, Niyi Adebayo, described the poll as peaceful.
Adebayo voted at his unit in ward A, Iyin Ekiti in Irepodun/Ifelodun local government area of the state.
Ojo Pelumi said electorates are tired of fake promises from the politicians which they said have been deceiving them since 1999.