The process is useless, police everywhere-Ekiti PDP guber candidate, Oluyede, laments alleged manipulation
The process is useless, police everywhere-Ekiti PDP guber candidate, Oluyede, laments alleged manipulation
The gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ekiti State, Dr Wole Oluyede, has alleged voter intimidation and expressed concerns over delays in the accreditation and voting process at his polling unit at Osaguru Hall, Unit 6, Ward 3, Ikere-Ekiti.
Oluyede described the pace of voting as unacceptable, claiming that only a handful of voters had been processed more than an hour after polling commenced due to the malfunction of the BVAS machine.
He accused security operatives deployed to the area of intimidating voters, claiming some of them were operating in unofficial vehicles. He said he had documented the alleged incidents and would make the evidence available at an appropriate time.
“I feel very unfortunate that all I can get here is a handful of cameras, whereas down the road where the deputy governor votes, there is an army of policemen harassing people. You should go there and see the army of policemen that are harassing people. They are using false vehicles. I taped them; I have evidence of that, and I will show you when it is appropriate. This is nonsense.
The process is actually useless. People have been here for about one and a half hours, and only five people have voted in my polling unit. That’s what they do all the time, so I am suspecting that there is something wrong with the INEC process.”
