The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has expressed satisfaction with the conduct of Saturday’s local government election in the state.
Amosun described it as the best election in the history of the state.
Amosun, who spoke with newsmen after casting his vote at African Church Central Primary School, Ita-Iyalode, Abeokuta at about 1.20pm, in company with his wife, Olufunso, said it was also not right to say there was voter apathy for the election.
He said: “I will not totally agree with you.
“Yet, it was not as what happened during the general election in 2011.
“Any election that you are having 25 per cent, I think it is not too bad.
“If you look at our registration in this polling unit, we have about 25 per cent of those that registered.
“You will discover that even the one they had last week in Edo State, if you look at the turnout really, when you have 30, 40 per cent it is really massive.
“That is the way we are.
“Yet. I am happy that at least we have about 25 per cent turnout, which I think is okay.
“It could be improved upon.
“I phoned round and discovered that in almost everywhere, that is the turnout, especially in Ogun Central Senatorial district.
“So, when we heard about the turnout in other Senatorial District, we did not expect anything less.”
Amosun, who also spoke on the issue of missing names in the register for the election, a development that affected former President Olusegun Obasanjo, said it was not the fault of the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission as the register used for the election was handed over to it by the Independent National electoral Commission.
He said: “Well, it is a learning process.
“They phoned to say one or two things like that even during the general election.
“We had cases like that where people would come and would not find their names on the list.
“Today, we realised that people have come to say that they could not find their names on the list and OGSIEC told us that it was the list given to them by the INEC.
“So, I think there is not much we can do about it.
“It is a learning process and I am sure we are going to perfect it in the subsequent elections.”