Guber Polls:  Enabulele Calls For Peaceful Elections As Edo State Residents Vote

As Edo residents head to the polls Saturday, September 21, 2024, to elect their next Governor, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, Immediate Past President,  World Medical Association (WMA), has stressed the importance of conducting a peaceful election. 

His remarks come as Edo State prepares for a pivotal moment in its political landscape, urging voters to prioritise peace and unity during the electoral process.

Enabulele, who is also a former Governorship candidate from the April 2007 election stated this in a broadcast message to the people of Edo State and made it available to the press.

While noting the significance of elections in the determination of individuals to lead the people, Dr. Enabulele called on all players, including the political parties to work to ensure a peaceful and violence-free election.

Underscoring the need for politics without bitterness and violence, Dr Enabulele particularly charged the political parties and their agents to do nothing to promote violence or vote buying but rather to work to promote mutual respect, understanding, and peaceful engagement during the voting exercise and post-electoral period.

Dr Enabulele similarly called on the law enforcement agencies and the electoral umpire, INEC, to uphold the sanctity of the election by eliminating acts capable of undermining the integrity of the Edo Governorship election.

The immediate Past President of WMA urged the people of Edo State to massively turn up at the various polling units to exercise their democratic right to determine who governs them.

He urged them to reject any effort to undermine their free will or negatively influence their choices, and to vote for a people-centred and altruistic individual that can best govern them, in line with their expectations and aspirations.

He further urged the people to secure their collective future and prosperity by rejecting vote buying and selfish inducements to undermine their conscience, free will and informed choice.

While commending all the candidates who put themselves up for the Governorship election, Dr Enabulele wished them the very best and admonished them to sustain their mature conduct throughout the exercise and to promote the same amongst their supporters.

He reminded them that only one candidate at a time can be elected as the Governor of Edo State and that whoever is elected by the people should be supported to deliver on the people’s mandate.

Dr. Enabulele has since proceeded to his polling unit to participate in the voting exercise.