Kaduna LG Elections: El-Rufa'i Decries Low Turnout of Voters

The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufa'i has decried the low turnout of voters in the ongoing council elections in the state.

El-Rufa'i expressed this at the Unguwan Sarki Polling Unit after he voted on Saturday.

He blamed the late arrival of election materials for the low turnout at Kaduna North Local Government Area.

He urged residents to come out and exercise their franchise.

The governor said there was massive improvement as compared to the previous council elections.

He further expressed appreciation for the use of electronic voting machine, saying it has closed the gap created by multiple voting.

He explained that, "You activate the voting machine with your voter’s card once you have been accredited… the whole process takes less than 15 seconds; it’s very quick and efficient and you see your ballot paper being printed.

"The machine also transmits the result at the end of the voting to a server and so it is very difficult to alter anything."

While underlining how the election is better than others', he said, “As I said several times, we are not going to behave like other parties or other state governments, we will allow the people of Kaduna State to elect who they want."

“They have seen our footprints in all the LGAs and all over the state.

“We don’t believe in cheating or rigging elections but also we don’t want other parties to cheat us and that was why encouraged the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission to come up with fool-proof voting process," he said while expressing his confidence that the APC will win the election.