Ondo Guber: REC opens up on her preferred candidate

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Following the plea by certain youths in Ondo State that the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the state, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Babalola, be redeployed ahead of the November 16 governorship election, the REC has branded the allegations brought against her as baseless.

According to Babalola, she has no favourite candidate in the upcoming election.

She declared that she had never met in private with the APC’s leadership or Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa.

Youths in the state, under the banner of the Ondo State Youth Vanguard, on Wednesday, during a protest to the state offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, accused the REC of having affiliation with the APC and that she had been covertly meeting with Aiyedatiwa ahead of the November 16 governorship poll.

The REC claimed that she had just been interacting with political parties, rejecting the accusations made in a petition that the protesting youths had delivered to Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

She said, “It is not true; I didn’t hold any clandestine meeting with the governor or any member of any political party.

“In INEC, we relate with all political parties; I have been operating open door policies to all, and I don’t have any preferred candidate for the election. I am not a member of any political party.

“In this election, we will ensure every vote counts, and I promise, there won’t be any form of bias; the election will be free, fair, and credible.”

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