From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
The People’s Democratic Party, Kogi Chapter has faulted the ongoing council polls across the 21 Local Government Areas describing it as a mockery of the nation’s nascent democracy.
The Saturday’s local government councils elections in Kogi, though peaceful, but witnessed low turnouts by voters across the state.
Our Correspondent who visited some places in the state, reports that only few people came out to cast their votes for the candidates of their choice while others stayed away.
However, State Publicity Secretary of the Party, Mr Bode Ogunmola in a statement on Saturday, described the entire process as a scam.
He said the state government should have opened up to the entire Kogites that they were not ready to conduct any council election rather than wasting the precious time of electorates who are willing to express their anger through the ballot on the maladministration of the present All Progressive Congress (APC) in the last five years.
Ogunmola noted that the feelers he is getting across the state polling booths showed that there was no election conducted anywhere in the state.
The Party spokesperson alleged that some thugs loyal to the ruling party, invaded the headquarter of the Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission (KOSIEC) on Friday night, to snatch ballot boxes into an unknown destination.
He said the ruling party would have tasted a sweeping defeat, if they were willing to conduct a credible, free and fair election, as their five years in power has been greeted with poverty, unemployment, hunger and shrinking economy.
His words: “There is no election any where in Kogi State. I am at 002 Open space voting unit in Ogori, This is 9.30am and there is no sign of any voting any where. Reports reaching me from across the state is the same. This is a big disgrace to our state again under the APC-led government.”
