Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)governorship candidate in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu yesterday accused the police of abandoning their duties during the election.
He expressed confidence that the people have expressed their wishes through their votes despite hitches.
Audu, who cast his vote at about 1pm in his village in Ogbonicha, Ofu Local Government Area, said he is ready to give quality service if announced winner.
He said: "People today turned out en mass to express their displeasure against nine years of inept governance in the state. The state has been sleeping because the present government has not added anything in terms of infrastructural development since I left office in 2003.
"I believe the people will today keep a date with history by rejecting them, by throwing them out with their votes. The people have suffered enough.
"By the special grace of God, if I am voted into power, I will make sure we regain rapidly the lost glory, because it saddens my heart and the heart of all well-meaning Kogites to see Kogi dying.
"Why am I saying that the state is dying? It is because there is no road, no water, no hospital, no education.
"It is where I left Kogi in 2003, that is the place you find it today in spite of the improvement in their statutory allocation."
Audu said he was not completely satisfied with the conduct of some security agents in the election.
"The police have abandoned us completely. I don't know if it is an oversight on their part. It may be a conspiracy between them and the PDP so that the thugs can have a field day.
"But whatever they are doing will fail. We hear they are snatching ballot boxes all over the state. But they will fail.
"They know they have lost but they want to cause some havoc. But God will disappoint them."
The Nation