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Some Ondo State residents, yesterday, faulted the
deployment of former Ekiti State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ayoka
Adebayo to Ondo State.

Mrs. Adebayo conducted last year’s contentious
re-run elections in the Ekiti State in a manner observers believed was
highly controversial. She initially refused to declare the result of
the election and went incommunicado for days until she surfaced in
Abuja and pronounced the Peoples’ Democratic Party candidate, Segun
Oni, winner of the polls. Sola Iji, the state Chairman of the Action
Congress, said there was no point retaining Mrs. Adebayo in INEC after
her performance in Ekiti State last year.

“I want to pass vote of no confidence on Ayoka
Adebayo to conduct flawless election in Ondo state,” he said. “Her
redeployment to the state at this auspicious moment was shocking.
Attahiru Jega (INEC Chair) should be held responsible for any debacle
in next year elections in the state. Redeployment of Mrs. Adebayo is a
wrong signal to the credibility of Jega’s led electoral body to conduct
generally acceptable polls.”

Also, an Akure based legal practitioner, Titiloye Charles, expressed
concern on the deployment of Mrs. Adebayo, saying “it is on record that
her controversial role in the disputed Ekiti re-run election is still
pending before the court of Appeal in Ilorin. We doubt her neutrality
in the face of threat by some individuals to capture the state in 2011.
Mrs Adebayo’s redeployment has cast a doubt on the ability of new INEC
boss to conduct fair next year.”