Former Ondo governor Olusegun Mimiko has claimed that the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) use of technology has reduced incidents of vote-buying and ballot-snatching.
Mimiko made this statement after voting at the Ondo West local government area Open Space polling unit.
Mimiko stated that both the process and the election were peaceful while speaking about the election.
I have not heard any report either on ballot snatching, technology has made it a thing of the past. But the report I heard was that some people in some areas are trying to harass people in the rural areas where they perceived they are weak, he said.
He however claimed that he learned some people were intimidating voters in some rural areas.
To a very large extent, I have not got any electoral violence, this process is less stressful in a way that you will just come, vote and go away, he added.