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President Goodluck Jonathan Saturay expressed the confidence that the Peoples Democratic Party PDP would improve on its performance in the State House of Assembly elections.He said though the poor voters turn out in Bayelsa State was expected as the governorship poll is not holding in the state, due to mobilisation by candidates, the PDP will gain a lot of grounds in the state and governorship elections despite the loss during the Presidential polls.
Jonathan, who arrived at his polling Unit, 039, at exactly 10:55am and was accredited within minute without technical hitch with the Card Reader, said the noticeable smoothness of his accreditation by the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) showed that the commission had rectified noticeable errors noticed during the Presidential poll.
His words: “it is technology. The INEC may have rectified the faults but we still have reports of some rejections in some state. Nationwide, the issue of Presidential elections and Governorship elections are interesting. And the mobilization is very high. We expected that such turn out will be low where we don’t have governorship elections.”
The President, who had his accreditation without the presence of his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan, visited his mother, Madam Eunice Jonathan, at her residence, about a walking distance from his polling unit.
The President mother had earlier done her accreditation before the President’s arrival.
Meanwhile, the accreditation processes in Oruma community in Ogbia and Brass Local Government areas of the state were disrupted by crowd of voters due to alleged missing result sheets from voting materials supplied by the INEC.
While the protest in Oruma community was allegedly led by aggrieved supporters of the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC), the protest in Brass local council was caused by the alleged hijack of voting materials by some suspected PDP thugs.
Meantime, the polling unit at the OMPADEC area of Amarata in Yenagoa council area recorded large turnout of voters where voting was ongoing at the time of filing in this report.
INEC reschedule Assembly poll in 8 Bayelsa constituencies
The Independent National Electoral Commission has rescheduled election in eight state constituencies in Bayelsa State.
Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Mr. Baritor Kpagih in a statement in Yenagoa said elections in Ekeremor Constituencies 1, 2 and 3, Kolokuma/Opokuma constituencies 1 and 2, Sagbama constituencies 1 and 2, and Southern Ijaw Constituency 1.
According to INEC statement, elections into the rescheduled constituencies will hold next week Saturday, April 18th .
Mr. Kpagih explained that the shift in the affected eight constituencies in four Local Government Areas of the state was in agreement with the stand by stakeholders that no election should take place in the constituencies without full compliment of ballot papers with regard to the total Permanent Voter Cards distributed.
He, however, said that election would go ahead in all other state constituencies in the state as scheduled.
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