The Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, on Friday conducted the Students' Union Leadership Election through electronic voting, thereby setting a pace for E-voting in Nigeria's higher institution of learning.

This was contained in a press statement made available to newsmen on Saturday by the Protocol, Media and Public Relations Officer of the institution, Sola Lawal.

According to the statement, the Dean, Student Affairs, Dr. Oluyemi Omotosho (jnr) after the exercise attributed the success of the poll to the unflinching support of Dr. Prince John Taiwo Adekolawole led Management, coupled with good initiative of the entire staff of Directorate of Students Affairs(DSA), with creative implementation by the ICT & MIS departments that developed the Application.

He added that:" Special recognition also goes to the Chief security officer of the institution and his entire staff, all Polytechnic functionaries for their unalloyed support throughout the elections period".

Meanwhile, the Rector of the institution, Dr. John Taiwo Adekolawole, while making remarks on the conduct of the election asserted that the success of the Students' Union poll has again proved to the entire world that the institution is following the path of making the citadel a house-hold name in the global arena.

According to him, the enviable feat could be ascribed to the motto of the Polytechnic which is " KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND CHARACTER, he, therefore, urged the students to be a good ambassador of the institution and sustain the tempo of credibility and enviable pride which the Polytechnic is noted for.

He also implored other higher institutions of learning to follow suite and develop similar voting application to ensure peaceful and democratic exercise.

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An act worth emulating by our leaders

Nigerian leaders will not like this one o.They prefere the manual voting system so they can steal votes.GEJ wanted to introduced this but was overwhelmingly rejected by the National Assembly.