February 26, (THEWILL) – Senator representing Cross River North in the National Assembly, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, has casted his vote as the By-Elections in Cross River State gets underway.
Senator Jarigbe voted at the St. Michaels Primary School, Ibil-Nkum in Ogoja local government area.
The polling unit with number PU 005, has 791 registered voters and is presided over by Adebola Adeyinka.
Speaking after casting his vote, Senator Jarigbe said there will be no room for rigging with what he had seen and politicians have to work hard to earn the votes of the electorate.
In his words, “There will be no room for rigging because of what I am seeing here and if it continues strictly, there will be no bypass anywhere.
“Politicians will have to work very hard to earn what they get from the electorate.
“It is not an issue of coming to face the electorate when you have not delivered on the mandate given to you.
“We have done well as a nation and expect things to get better as far as the electoral process is concerned.”
Also speaking, Ambassador Samuel, an official of the Coalition of Civil Society Groups in Nigeria on Leadership and Good Governance said the turnout was wonderful and expressed confidence in a successful outcome.
Similarly at Customary Court Polling Unit at Nkum Ifede Community in Ishi Aya, voting commenced as scheduled.
Presiding officer, Gabriel Otokpa, said the area has 934 registered voters with two voting points.
However, at Igodo Primary School in Nkum Ibor, there was an attempt to disrupt voting by a senior official from Ogoja local government area in connivance with some security officers.
This was however resisted by voters from the community who out-braved the official.
The situation was brought under control and the presiding officer, Ukpi Dorcas Yohana, said the process has commenced.
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