Edo poll: Voters commend high profile personalities’ compliance with security directive
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By Kevin Okunzua
Benin, Sept.28, 2016(NAN) Edo voters have commended the compliance with security directives on the ban on the use of armed escorts to voting centres by high profile personalities.
The Police Force had said that no high profile personality should be escorted with armed escorts to the polling centres in compliance with the Electoral Act.
Some voters who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) at the different polling centres, commended the high level of compliance by politicians on the ban on use of armed escorts.
NAN observed that at Iyamho, Gov. Adams Oshiomhole went to the polling centre at ward 10, unit 2, Etsako West, without the usual armed security personnel.
At ward 2, unit 2 and ward 4 unit 18 in Oredo Local Government Area, Benin, the APC National Chairman, Chief John Oyegun and the party’s governorship candidate, Mr Godwin Obaseki, came in with few supporters and without armed security personnel.
NAN Correspondents also observed that chief Tony Anenih, former PDP BOT Chairman, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and Edo Deputy Gov. Pius Odubu, also went to the polling centres without armed escorts.
Mr Victor Osimen, a voter said: “I like the way these politicians now respect themselves when they come to vote.
“Before, they would come with so many armed escorts to vote, but just look at the way they came and joined the queue before it is their turn to vote, without the armed escorts,’’ he said.
Another voter, Mr Osahon Omoigui, also lauded the conduct of the conduct of the high profile personalities, whom he observed, went to the polling centres peacefully without the armed escorts.
The National President of NAWOJ, Mrs Ifeyinwa Omowole, equally commended the compliance with the ban on armed escorts by the high profile personalities.
Omowole said the development was good for democracy.(NAN)
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Edited by Abdullahi Yusuf