ABEOKUTA– As the Local government election in Ogun State draws nearer, a chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Olufemi Solola has urged the Ogun State Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) to ensure transparent exercise devoid of violence as well as adequate provision of voting materials to all the polling boots for the people to exercise their civic rights.
Solola made this call on Wednesday in a statement made available to The News Ville, saying that electorates should come out enmasse and vote in their preferred candidates.
“I think the OGISEC led by Osibodu have done marvelouselly in preparing for the local government elections in Ogun State. Until the elections take place and the results are peacefully released and accepted by all parties, we can not actually give you a total kudos but so far so good you have done your best”, he added
Solola further urged the electorate to vote for his party, NNPP, saying that the party would give them the good governance they deserved.
He maintained that now is the right time for the people to deliver themselves from the agony, pains and sorrow inflicted on them by the All Progressive Congress, APC government.
“I implore the good people of Ogun State to go all out on July 24 to go and vote out APC and vote for NNPP, you don’t need to be afraid of anybody, you do not need to be scared, it is your time to deliver yourself from the pain, the sorrow, the agony, the poverty, impoverishment that the APC government has put a lot of people in Ogun State in”.
“Many people in Ogun State cannot eat, they cannot afford to be properly educated, they cannot medically take good care of themselves, if you want a responsible government, that will take you out of poverty, out of government, out of wretchedness, pains and agony, that APC government being led by Dapo Abiodun has put you into, go out on July 24 and vote for NNPP, Vote out APC.
“I don’t want you to be afraid at all, it is your vote and it must, but if you don’t go out and vote, that means, you are not ready to deliver yourself from the yokes that we have been put in by the APC government”.
“Come July 24, good people of Ogun State, go out and vote for NNPP, for the positions of the Chairman and that of the Councillors in all the wards in Ogun State”, he said
On election materials, he said “I am appealing to OGISEC been led by Osibodu to please give us a transparent and a totally free and fair elections. I am appealing to you (Osibodu) and your OGISEC team make sure we have more than enough needed electoral materials, balot papers, balot boxes, the personnel, the officers and all forms of resources, that is needed , for the successful takeoff and completion of the local government elections on July 24.
“Please make sure all these things are made available, we do not want anything to be missing, and please kindly make sure, you start as you have promised and make sure elections is completed in time as you have promised and the vote are counted in each polling boot peacefully and the results are released and are signed by the various agents of the various political parties at polling boots”
He called on the State Commissioner for Police, CP Edward Ajogun to ensure adequate security for the local government Elections.
“I am calling on the security personnel, the police in Ogun State, I am calling on the Commissioner of Police in Ogun State, please make sure that we have more than enough security of peoples lives and properties.
“Let there be no room for rigging, rancour, thuggery or fighting. Let us have more than enough security personnel in all the polling boots, let all the polling boots have all the Security personnel with enough communication gadgets with which to report to the appropriate authorities”, Solola stated
