Amid the ongoing Ondo State governorship election, the incumbent Governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lucky Aiyedatiwa has said he would accept defeat if the governorship election did not favour him.
Aiyedatiwa who spoke on Saturday after casting his vote said he would accept the outcome as long as the voting process remains peaceful.
Aiyedatiwa who is seeking his first election victory after the demise of the former Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu in December 2023, commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) staff, the security agents and the people for the peaceful process of the election.
“I’ve just cast my vote. The assessment so far, the area has been peaceful, from the information at my disposal, but judging from what is happening here it is peaceful.
“People are generally exercising franchise by casting their votes peacefully and I want to believe that this is what is happening in other parts of the state.
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“For INEC, they’ve been very transparent with the whole process. I went through the process myself, accreditation, given the ballot paper and I casted my vote, and that is what they have been doing for every voter.
“So I think that it is the process. So they are adhering to the process.
“But for the security, they are also on ground. And so far, we have not recorded any issue, any crisis. Anyway, I’ve not heard of any.
“I can only be at one polling unit at a time, that is where I am.
But information gathered from other locations. We have not heard about any incident of any violence, as it were. So, I want to believe that the election will be peaceful.
“Even during elections, different elections, different times. Apart from 1983 when we have a major crisis, since then, we still have been peaceful. We’ve learned our lessons. We comport ourselves.
“I want to also salute the youth, very, very obedient. I want to believe the whole exercise will be peaceful, transparent, credible and conclusive,” the Governor said.
The Ondo State Governor called on other citizens of the state to come out and vote. He explained that he would accept the outcome of the result.
