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Ondo 2020: Akeredolu, Jegede, Ajayi, Others To Sign Peace Deal

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Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said candidates of the 17 political parties contesting the October 10 governorship election in Ondo State will sign a peace accord next week Tuesday.

He made this known while speaking at an interactive session held at INEC office in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

According to the INEC boss, the commission was studying the incident of slow voting in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State during the just-concluded election.

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He said INEC has recovered from the recent fire incident which destroyed over 5,000 smart card readers in its office in Akure, while sensitive materials for the exercise would arrive on Monday.

He said, “We are aware of the violence involving supporters of political parties. We will meet with the traditional rulers over the issue of violence. I am also glad that the National Peace Committee under the leadership of our former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), is going to intervene by organising the signing of the peace accord, similar to what we did in Benin.

“That is why we have a representative of the NPC committee to do the preparatory work. The signing of the peace accord will take place on Tuesday, October 6, 2020, here in Akure.

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We have accomplished 12 of the 14 activities. This is exactly two weeks and two days to the election. Within the days remaining, there is exactly 16 days to the election. If we exclude the election day on Saturday October 10, we have 15 days. So we have two weeks, and a day to the election. The sensitive materials for the election are ready.

“The Central Bank of Nigeria will deliver them to the (Akure) branch. On Monday, October 5, the sensitive materials for the election will arrive. We lost all our smart card readers to the unfortunate fire incident.

“But let me say that we have fully recovered from that incident. We have enough smart card readers from the neighboring State of Oyo State. We are configuring and charging the card readers here in Akure.”

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Naija News reports that while the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), is seeking re-election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Eyitayo Jegede (SAN), is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Agboola Ajayi is the candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).