Voting is in progress in a rerun at two polling units into Saki West State Constituency of Oyo State House of Assembly as electorate turned out in large numbers to cast their votes.
It was gathered that despite the very cold weather in the area in the morning, many voters were seen wrapped in scarves and heavy coats, to exercising their civic responsibility.
The atmosphere at the two poling units was peaceful and electorate are performing their civic right without hindrance or intimidation.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Oyo state Dr. Adeniran Tella, who visited the two affected polling units in company of the state’s Commissioner of Police, Adebola Hamzat commended the seamless conduct of the exercise.
Dr Tella also gave reasons for the re-run election, which he said was as a result of the ruling of an Appeal court on the judgement of the 2023 Election petition tribunal.
The judgements followed record of electoral malpractices in the 2023 state assembly election ranging from over-voting in the affected polling units and by-passing of BVAS during election accreditation.
The affected polling units are Odo-osun 007 in Ogidigbo area and Ogbalanja polling unit 019 in Sepeteri/Bapon registration area.
Newsarena.ng observes heavy presence of security agents at the affected polling units in order to forestall breaking down of law and order.
It was also observed that officials of Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences, ICPC, and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, were on ground at the two poling units to prevent vote buying.
