The Biomodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) has denied the former governor of Ogun state, Chief Olusegun Osoba from his Civic responsibility at his polling Unit and forfeit his vote.
Our correspondent gathered that the former Governor had earlier visited his pulling unit twice at the GRA ward 14 Ibara Unit 1 in Ibara Housing Estate Abeokuta but his face and fingerprints could not display on the BVAS machine and as a result, he was unable to exercise his franchise.
It was observed that voters turned out in large numbers to cast their votes at the pulling unit but the former Governor was denied as a result of BVAS failure.
Speaking to journalists shortly after he was unable to exercise his civic duty, Osoba hinted that he had earlier visited the Polling unit in the morning with the voters card he used for 2019 elections and he was denied to vote due to the failure of BVAS in capturing his face and fingerprints.
Osoba further explained that he decided not to vote because he doesn’t want situation where BVAS will not captured a vote that is not captured in the unit therefore better for him to save hundreds of votes than to use his one vote because he want to insist on voting to lead to cancelation of electoral process in the unit.
The former Governor who expressed disappointment with the situation said he was encouraged with the huge turnout of the voters in the polling unit.
The former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has adjudged the presidential and the National Assembly election as free, hitch-free as well as given kudos to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on process.
Obasanjo arrived at his polling unit Ward 11, unit 22, Olusomi compound in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital at 10:27 am with heavy security personnel.
The former president who spoke to newsmen shortly after casting his vote stated “I’m satisfied with the process. The BVAS machines were functioning well and the conduct was free, fair and credible.
Obasanjo also commended INEC on the improvement in the voting process saying that he was asked to remove his glasses for proper checking before voting.
Meanwhile, the Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun lamented that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not provide enough cards for the agents of the APC for identification.
The governor, who spoke to newsmen immediately after casting his vote at ward 3, unit 2, Osanyin, Iperu in Ikenne Local Government Area of the state, noted that, though there were little hitches, the process was successful.
He however noted that the issues had been resolved even as he expressed satisfaction over the peaceful conduct of the election so far.
Abiodun expressed satisfaction on the turnout of voters, saying it was impressive.
” I hope what I have seen here will be obtained in length and breadth of the state. I think INEC is hard work. They have taken up more responsibility like they have had in the past.
” Am sure the election will go well. We have not heard about any crisis anywhere, it’s going peacefully,” he said.
Th former governor of the state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun had struggled to locate his polling unit at Ward 6, Abeokuta South as his name could not be found in unit 15 but later found his name in unit 8 in Ita-Gbangba where he performed his franchise.
Amosun’s aides had earlier arrived at the venue to sort the name of their principal and the actual unit where he would cast his vote but couldn’t locate his name.
There was a delay for hours at the polling unit due to network problems with the BVAS machine which almost prevented the voters, including the former governor and his wife who queued under the scorching sun from voting.
Speaking to Journalists after casting his vote, Amosun regretted that the BVAS at his polling unit delayed the process due poor network.
His words “On getting to the polling unit here, we found out that the BVAS machine was not working so I made a call to let them know the situation. We queued for hours but thank God we came and I had to wait until it was resolved and I have to wait to make sure that the people exercise their votes.