The Osun Resident Electoral Commissioner(REC) Dr. Agboke has made it known today that the 2026 Osun Governorship Election will be transparent and votes of the electorates will count.
This was at the instance of of the Media Parley organised by the Osun Online Publishers Association(OOPA) having him as the Guest of the moment.
According to him, all stakeholders, including the media,electorates and the security personnel should support us”.They should give us information anytime they observe any untoward moves. Our doors are opened any time”, he said.
While fielding questions from Journalists, on what the Commission is doing to curb prevalent vote buying, he said” We are working seriously on that with the assistance of the security personnel.”
” Help us to check them.” Our partnership with the security men will help curb this monster called vote buying.
He however, counselled the political actors to play by the rules as anyone caught in the web of electoral malpractice shall face the full wrath of the law”.
Dr. Agboke took his time to educate the erroneous belief that election declaration comes directly from the IREV..
According to him, “IREV is to collate results and not to announce results. He says, IREV is for viewing while the results are uploaded on IREV portal to make it more transparent. The official collation process remains the only channel for rolling out election results. INEC declares its results through their officials who are high ranking and they are out on oaths”,he said.
Dr Agboke called on women to take the bull by the horn and be active in politics to bring about the long expected gender equilibrium.
He also said the people with special needs would be adequately taken care of as provisions are already on ground to make them exercise their civic rights in the on -coming governorship election.
” We shall make them comfortable as we have put them into consideration”,he echoed.