Segun Ayinde, Abeokuta
Chairman of the Ogun State chapter of the Social Democratic Party, Dr. Yinka Ola-williams, on Friday, said the party conducted credible and transparent primaries to elect reliable candidates for chairmanship and councilorship seats in the forthcoming local government elections in the state.
At the venue of the primaries, officers
of the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission(OGSIEC), including Commissioner in charge of operations, OGSIEC, Mr Tunji Akogun, Commissioner in charge of Security and Protocol, OGSIEC, Mrs Gbemisola Onasanya and Special Adviser to Chairman, Mr. Ahmed Awoyade, were on ground to monitor the process.
Ola-williams who stated this while addressing party members in Abeokuta, the state capital, noted that the party was fully ready to take over leadership from rulling All Progressive Congress at the councils and state come 2027 elections.
He lauded OGSIEC officials for being sincere and credible in the conduct of the primaries, stating that the party’s delegates conducted themselves in a violent-free manner to vote for candidates that would contest the Nov. 16, 2024 LG elections in the state.
Ola-williams, who prayed to God to assist the commission to conduct a transparent and credible council elections, said he was convinced that OGSIEC won’t be biased or rigged the election with the way it conducted a peaceful primaries for the party.
He said “We are here for our state primaries, the primaries for the local government chairmen and the councilors, we are happy that it went all very well and it is a wonderful one and we are looking forward for the election. It is a free, fair and credible primaries, OGSIEC did very well, at least what we have seen so far is sincerity and we pray that sincerity continues even after the elections.
“It is a credible and a fair one, and that is should be and what we ensure that in our polling booths that we try as much as possible to get a credible agents who is loyal to the party to be able to monitor our votes successfully that there is no voting buying, no rigging during the elections”
“We have done several meetings with OGSIEC and the matter had been brought to them challenging that they would not play to the dictate of the pay master and OGSIEC had told us consistently that they are neutral, unbiased and they would not be partial We are only praying for them that devil wil not use them and God will help them to do the right thing.”
The chairman, therefore, charged the people not to engage in vote buying, saying, “If somebody wants to involved themselves in voting buying with the state of the economy and what is happening in this country you can only say congratulations to them.”