Ekiti conducts orderly LG poll amid fuel scarcity

Ekiti State, yesterday, held its local council election in all the 16 local government councils and 177 wards, with the chairman of the state Electoral Commission (EKSIEC), Justice Kayode Bamisile, describing the exercise as free, fair and peaceful.

The poll witnessed impressive turnout of voters, despite the debilitating effect of the current fuel scarcity. However, in some of the polling units at the Okesa, Okeyinmi and Ajilosun
areas of the state capital, election materials arrived at about 9 a.m. instead of 8 a.m.

Prominent political parties that took part in the exercise include Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Action Democratic Party (ADP), Peoples Party of
Nigeria (PPN), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Peoples Democratic
Action (PDA).

Security agents, particularly the police, were deployed at all the units while some observer groups were seen monitoring.