With the Osun governorship election less than 24 hours away, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has begun distributing sensitive materials to the state’s 30 local government areas.
On Thursday night, INEC officials moved the materials amid tight security at the commission’s headquarters on the Gbongan/Osogbo road.
Prof. Abdulganiy Raji, the Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, said while handing out the materials that the electoral officers would take the items to their councils and then to the polling units on Saturday morning.
According to him, the move is to ensure efficient delivery of the items to the polling units on Saturday.
As part of their strategies to boost their chances in the polls, the dominant parties – the All Progressives Congress (APC), Labour Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – both held their mega rally to woo the electorates to vote for them.
While former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yusuff Lasun is the LP’s candidate, the PDP is fielding Senator Ademola Adeleke as its flagbearer with the incumbent Governor Gboyega Oyetola seeking re-election under the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Both men will slug it out on Saturday with the people of Osun State to decide who will govern them for the next four years.