President Jonathan Spoke to Journalist after His Accreditation

President Goodluck Jonathan ‎commended the Independence Electoral Commission (INEC) for improving on its preparedness at the gubernatorial and State houses of assembly elections, expressing confidence that his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), would have a good outing compared to the March 28^th Presidential Election.

President Jonathan who was accredited within 10 seconds ‎at Ward 13, Unit 39, Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa state, gave two (2) reasons for the low voter turnout for the election in Otuoke compared to the March 28^th polls, noting that the stake is usually higher for Presidential election and the fact that there was no governorship election in Bayelsa state at this time.

Speaking on Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) performance this time around, Mr. President said, “My conviction is that PDP will do well. It may probably do better in a number of states. In some states our performance will even improve.

“If you look at the last elections, our performance in some states improved. But in some states our performance was a bit low. I think that in the overall PDP will do well”.

Contrary to the March 28^th experience where he and his wife, Mrs. Patience Jonathan had to resort to filling the incidence form because all four (4) card readers in his polling unit did not read their finger prints, Mr. President arrived His hometown of Otuoke at exactly 11am to participate in the state houses of assembly election and was accredited within 10 seconds.

Speaking on the development, Mr. President said, “It is technology. There must be some minor errors and they have rectified the faults. Although I am still hearing that we have some problems of rejection but I think INEC has a way of handling their assignment. The most important thing is that elections will be conducted”.

On the low voters turn out Mr. President said, ‎”Naturally different levels of elections elicit different interests. Presidential elections are quite interesting. Governorship elections are quite interesting. If we were to have a governorship election in Bayelsa state, the mobilization would have been higher because you need to mobilise the voters to come out.

But for State Assembly elections, the interest is not as high as the presidential elections or governorship elections.

We expect low turnout for states that don’t have governorship elections.

There is no governorship elections in Bayelsa that is why the turn out may be low. ”
The President later voted at 1:41pm.



Source: #TheSun

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