Ekiti Guber: Metropolitan Ado Records Large Turn-Out

There was a large turnout of voters for the Ekiti governorship election in many parts of Ado-Ekiti as hundreds of voters trooped to the polling units as early as 6:45 am.

At ward 8, unit 4 and 5, Odo Aremu area of Ado metropolis, The Nation met more than 100 voters waiting for officials the the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) around 7.05 am.

A van belonging to the Nigeria Army and Police with was stationed at the Ereguru junction and Oke-Ori Omi along the Old Governor’s Office.

At St. Thomas Primary School Irona, the voters were seen checking their names on the lists with INEC staff already at their duty post.

Also when correspondent got to St. Paul primary school, Odo Ado, Ado-Ekiti, people were seen in their numbers as early as 7:25am checking the voters’ register pasted on the wall.

Also at Ward 8, Ereguru, Ado-Ekiti, party loyalists, agents, voters came out en masse to cast their votes

As early as 7:05am, voters were at the polling unit where the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Femi Ojudu, will vote President watching with keen interest as INEC officials prepared the ground for the election.

An elderly woman, Alhaja Suliyat Oguntuase, at Ereguru said: “I am here early to get accredited don’t have the and exercise my franchise because I don’t have energy to fight or stay long in the queue”.

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