Ogun community lauds INEC over new Polling Unit
…As they cast their votes within the vicinity for the first time
Razaq Bamidele
A densely populated community at Ota, Ogun State, Odumekan-Oke Peace Community, has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for considering the area fit to have its separate Polling Unit where its people could exercise their civic duties without having to travel for kilometres.
Chairman of the community, Alhaji Waheed Olawale Folarin, (aka Wahidan), who spoke with our correspondent while casting his vote said, “We have never vote within this vicinity before,” expressing gratitude to the government for creating a separate Polling Unit 051 for his people.
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According to him, his people used to go far from home to locate our poling units in the town saying “This is the first voting exercise we are doing at our doorsteps here and we are very happy about it.”
He, therefore, thanked God and the government for considering the community for the feat and made his people join the league of those who vote directly within their vicinity, praying that,
“By the grace of God, the outcome of today’s election will result into success for the country and the leader that would emerge would by the grace of God be the one that would be beneficial to the people of Nigeria.”
Once more, Folarin urged his people to accept the result of the poll without acrimony and pleaded with them that, the peaceful co-existence amongst us before and during this exercise should continue after the election for the generality of the citizenry.
Speaking in the same manner, the immediate past Chairperson of the community, Mrs. Julianah Ademeso, also thanked God that, “the much-awaited election at last found us alive and in good condition and we pray that the outcome would be beneficial to all of us,” just as she also thanked God that, “this is the first election we are holding directly within our community without traversing kilometres to our polling units as we used to do in the past.”
She also thanked God that the present government honoured them by bringing the electoral process closer to the grassroots, saying, “it has made the process easier and more comfortable for us now unlike before when we used to go very far to cast our vote.”
Concluding, the community Women Leader therefore prayed that the leader that would emerge after the exercise would be the one that would usher in proper welfare for the people hoping that, “as we are peaceful here, I pray other parts of the country would be so peaceful.”
